Tips & Tutorials Blog: Autodesk Inventor

The latest release of Autodesk Inventor is packed with user requested updates and enhancements to help you manage your design process, speed up your connected engineering workflows, and reduce repetitive tasks. New capabilities and commands, a range of enhancements and easier BIM collaboration makes this the most powerful Inventor release yet! Check out some of […]

As we head into the final stretch of the year, you’re probably thinking, let’s end 2020 already! We’ve all been there at some point this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make the most of these last few months. Personally, we think it’s a great time to learn new skills, improve your current skills, […]

Product un-boxing has been a fad on YouTube for a while now, so today, I’ll be un-boxing Autodesk Inventor 2021 and sharing What’s New for this release.  Granted there’s no physical box for me to open and reveal what’s inside, but there’s plenty of new features and enhancements for 2021 for me to unpack. General […]

Inventor 2016 made its debut in April 2016, Inventor 2016 R2 was announced in early November, and on December 2nd Autodesk introduced Inventor 2016 R3. In this latest update Autodesk has introduced Inventor Connected Design on A360 and the ability for Inventor users to export data in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file format for the […]

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Synergis Applications Consultant, Jim Swain I recently had a customer in one of my Inventor Essentials classes ask if an angle has to be perpendicular to the face of the part. I will typically draw a small flat at the desired angle, then drill the hole perpendicular to that face. […]

Join Autodesk for this webinar to learn more about The Future of Making Things and how Autodesk’s integrated product development solutions can improve your processes: Create the best possible design based on real world conditions that you define with Autodesk’s new Shape Generator functionality. Gone are the days of educated guesses and over-engineering your products. […]

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Manufacturing Product Support Specialist, Mark Lancaster A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about the “Styles Conflict” message which may appear when you start an Inventor drawing using the New command.  This article describes why it appears and how to resolve it.  In one of the solutions […]

Join Synergis Application Consultation, Jim Swain as he takes an in-depth look at the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD software. Nastran In-CAD offers more powerful analysis tools than what has previously been available with the Inventor environment. You can now analyze how parts and assemblies behave as heat is applied and as large deformations take place. During […]

Do you wish you could create a new design from your existing Inventor models? This easily accomplished within Vault with the Vault Copy Design workflow, but what if you don’t have access to Vault? Join Mark Lancaster for this month’s Synergis60 and he will demonstrate two workflows within Inventor that will allow you to create […]

With the release of Inventor 2016, a lot of new tools were introduced. The DWG underlay feature in Inventor 2016 allows you to quickly turn your 2D AutoCAD legacy drawings into 3D drawings. Watch the short video below to learn how to use this tool. Questions about Inventor 2016? Contact us today to speak with a Synergis Applications Consultant.