Tag Archives: Inventor

Incorrect System Time Causing Inventor to Crash

Inventor (and most other Autodesk products) utilizes time tracking to provide your usage data to Autodesk.  Autodesk in turn, creates reporting metrics in the account management portal, for viewing by your contract manager/primary admin.  The constant time checking tasks that run to facilitate this usage reporting may crash (or fail to start) the program if the system time is incorrect.

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Autodesk New Product Releases

Spring has sprung and so have new product releases from Autodesk! Click on the links below to learn more about some new functionality included in the 2024 releases of Inventor and Vault. If you’d like to learn more or are thinking of upgrading in the near future, contact your Tata Technologies Account Manager for more details.

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How to Shift Trim/Extend & Offset Work Plane on Sketch Creation | AUTODESK INVENTOR TIPS

Recently we posted ‘‘Autodesk Inventor Tips: Restart, Line Command and Inferred Trim” and now we are sharing two new tips from our “120 Autodesk Inventor Tips” vault.

Our Autodesk Subject Matter Expert from i GET IT Learning created these 120 short tech tips to present at Autodesk University. Now we have shared the first eight tips in PLM Tech Talk. To get access to all tips go to – SkillAdvisor from i GET IT (myigetit.com) and choose your role and interested software relevant to you and subscribe and gain access to many other courses.

Follow below videos and steps to get to know more

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Leveraging Model-Based Definition (MBD) in Autodesk Inventor

With the ongoing digital transformation many manufacturers are going through, model-based definition has been increasingly becoming more important. Model-based definition refers to a fully defined 3D model, which including the annotations is sent out create a physical manufactured part. The GD&T annotations historically have been done in 2D drawings but with MBD, you can now store everything in a 3D

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Why you need to learn the Direct Edit tool in Autodesk Inventor

In the last several years, there hasn’t been a lot of ground-breaking additions to most 3D CAD software.  One of the more recent Autodesk Inventor developments in the last couple years has been the addition of the “Direct Edit” tool.  This recent addition can be used to edit models independently of any feature history.  This means you can edit models that

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Attention all Inventor users: Don’t forget to migrate your libraries.

If you have been using Autodesk Inventor for a while you may already know this, but there is a process for migrating Inventor’s “Content Center” libraries.  This should be done to ensure you don’t end up with duplicate parts (file names) for the same fastener, pin or other common part.  When libraries are migrated, it allows the new software version

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Understanding Autodesk Vault – Maintaining File Relationships

One of the first things I typically discuss with customers concerning file management is the relationship between files in their engineering data.  This is especially the case when working with data from 3D CAD systems like Autodesk Inventor. When you have Assemblies, parts, drawings, and presentations all with linked file relationships, it can be extremely challenging to manage this data without

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