Tips & Tutorials Blog: 3d modeling

Design, develop, and validate are usually the key words that come to mind when you hear digital prototyping. Over the past few years digital prototyping has become a necessity in the manufacturing industry. Digital prototyping helps manufacturers to adapt to customer needs, shifts in production, as well as keep a competitive advantage. With 3D modeling […]

Can you survive without BIM?  So far, some firms have been holding out with concerns over costs, skill sets of the employees they have, and all the unknowns that come with implementing new processes and technology.  Autodesk and Synergis aim to clear up the confusion and help you step into BIM while minimizing interruption in […]

Each year, New Jersey Institute of technology shares student work with us.  These projects all use Autodesk software and are amazing so we wanted to share it with you. Wonderland:Virtual Set Design, Paige Crosby, 3rd Year Digital Design Wonderland: Virtual Set Design, Jeremy Borghi, 3rd Year Digital Design Residential Interior Design: Foster Home, Amy Cahill […]

Guest post on March 18, 2014 by Steward Hudson: In the electrical engineering industry today, new technologies are being brought to optimize power distribution systems and an overall improvement in the operations of a business. The new technology, Building Information Modeling (BIM), is a relatively new concept that most people are still unclear about. BIM […]

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Bob Reid, Synergis Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: Included since last year’s release of Inventor 2013, is the addition of several sketch features.  We have received questions about the sketch features so here I am going to go over some of my favorites. The first two are Dynamically Trimming and Extending […]

Posted August 22, 2013 by Jesse Evans, Synergis Civil Solutions Engineer: By now you may have heard about 3D printing. The rumors, the stories – astronauts are printing tools in space. Well, it is not a myth. I have seen these crazy machines with my own eyes. But how do they work? Is it difficult? […]

January 30, 2013, post by Robert Reid, Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: The “Tolerance Calculator” helps the end user to perform calculations of closed linear dimension chains within the Part environment, or the Assembly environment. The calculator can work in the following two basic modes: • Calculation of the resulting dimension including tolerances (check calculation): Performs a […]

January 23, 2013 by Robert Reid, Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: Download the full whitepaper. Functional Design Definition: Functional design is a knowledge content tool that represents the trend to move from geometrical descriptions to capturing knowledge. Designers use functional design to analyze the function of their products and the design problems they are trying to solve, […]

Autodesk has created an interactive set of tools to help you design your infrastructure and civil projects by incorporating every part of the design process so that you are communicating accurate, realistic presentations to project stakeholders that may have little or no experience with engineering drawings. Of course, this is only one reason the Infrastructure Design Suite will help you […]

Synergis has the experts with the answers.  Need a feature review, have a question on how to design something?  Ask us!  Contact us at events@synergis.com with any of your questions and we will work on a video to answer your questions or find easier solutions. We have an on-going SynergisCAD YouTube Channel with a special series […]