The Dan Miles Idea Factory

Inventor Fusion Site Update

Everyone,

It looks like Autodesk has made some updates to the Inventor Fusion site.  Take a look as there is more information and videos now.

http://www.inventorfusion.com/

Dan

AU 2008 Large Assembly Video Posted

Today Autodesk published most of the AU 2008 classes online.  My Autodesk Inventor large assembly class that was streamed live over the internet is now online for your viewing. You can see all of the classes at the link below.

Autodesk University

Have fun

Dan

Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology Preview

This week at Autodesk Univeristy 2008 in Las Vegas Autodesk provided a preview of some new Autodesk Inventor modeling methods.  They are calling this the Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology Preview.  You can learn more about it at this new website:

Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology Preview

This preview contains a very nice new user interface that uses some of the nice parts of Autodesk AliasStudio it seems in a way.  Take a look at the website for some videos and additional information.

Dan

iCHECK Quality Checker for Autodesk Inventor

I thought I would share with you that the iCHECK for Autodesk Inventor is now certified for Inventor 2009.  This product is the ultimate quality assurance system for Autodesk Inventor.  It kinda works as your checker for your designs to automate compliance with best practices and methodologies.  If you ever need to make sure all of your iProperties are filled in.  Or there is no failed items within your models this this a must have add-on product for you.  There are over 70 different checks you can configure for your company.

You can download a free 30 day copy at this link and watch demo videos if you like.

iCHECK for Autodesk Inventor

Dan

Autodesk Inventor 2009 Shipping Next Week

Autodesk will start shipping Autodesk Inventor 2009 and most of the other standard Autodesk 2009 product later next week in the United States.  So if you have subscription you should see you new 2009 software in the coming weeks. 

There is a lot to learn and some really great new features.  At INCAT we are offering several 2009 update classes over the internet using our ILDL offering.  This will allow you to learn the new features directly from a live instructure from your desk in four hour blocks.

www.incat.com/ildl

Dan

Inventor 2009 Viewing Controls

With the new View Cube and Steering Wheel viewing tools within Autodesk Inventor 2009 there is one thing I miss.  You can no longer just do a right click on the graphics window and pick Isometric View.  I used this option a ton.  There is a right click "Home View" option now that is similar.

UPDATE = The right click Home View is good once you use it a bit and you can redefine it.  I just wanted to udpate this post after using the new feature for a few more days.

I think these new viewing tools provide a ton of features but I find them a little overwhelming so far.  This will be one of the biggest things that user have to get use to using.  I personally still like my SpacePilot controller.

Dan

Inventor 2009 - Feature List PDF

Everyone listed below is the offical Autodesk Inventor 2009 Technical What's New brochure from Autodesk.  This brochure outlines all of the major improvements and new features available within Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor Professional 2009.  This will make for some good lunch time reading.

Download autodesk_inventor_2009_whats_new.pdf

20 pages of new stuff.  Now that you have the list of everything I will start to dive deeper into specific features for you on how they might be used.

Dan

Autodesk Inventor 2009 Video

Garin Gardiner from Autodesk posted a short video on his blog site from the Autodesk World Press day in CA.  The video shows some of the new features available within Autodesk Inventor 2009.

Inventor 2009 - World Press Day Video from Garin

Cool stuff

Dan

Autodesk Inventor 2009

Everyone Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Inventor 2009 today publically.  I have been using the beta for a few months now and haven been waiting to talk about it with you.  The more I use it the more I find but as of today my top two new items are as follows:

1.       Assembly Substitutes
Provides the ability to substitute a part out to represent an assembly as a single part.  Also you could swap one part out for another simpler part.  This will be huge for large assembly operations.

2.       Native 64 Bit Support
No more 3GB memory barrier!!!  Autodesk will ship a 32 bit and 64 bit version of the software.

Here are a few other new features that I think are very helpful.

Sheet Metal Styles

Control all of your sheet metal style settings within the standard Inventor styles library framework.

iPart Authoring of Sheet Metal Parts

Create iPart families of related sheet metal parts.

ASM Simple Tearing

Bend plates without a separation notch.

Crop View

Ability to crop a drawing view with a sketch outline our standard shapes

Center of Gravity

Display and use the center of gravity within a drawing as a center mark.  Also there is now a center of gravity glyph within the modeling environment.

Custom iProperty Formatting

Set custom formats to control units, formats, and precision on iProperty and parameter values.  Also you can suppress the units and leading and trailing spaces.

Dynamic Simulation export to Inventor Studio

You can now export your simulation mot

Lights and Camera Paths within Inventor Studio

You can now create local lights and animate lights.  Plus you can create your own user defined camera paths.

New DWF Publishing Features

Inventor 2009 using the new DWFx format by default and also provides several new options for publishing DWF file which will greatly help with Autodesk Vault and Productstream.

Task Scheduler Multi Process Support

The task scheduler application takes advantage of multi-process support – faster!

Much more to come and please let me know if you have any questions.

Dan Miles