Tips & Tutorials Blog: inventor tips

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Dave Breiner, Synergis Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: You may find yourself in the position of needing a Custom Punch for an upcoming sheet metal project, to make your life a little easier.  Maybe you either have never tried to make a punch, or it has been a long time since […]

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Product Support Specialist: In this final installment of this series in working with Content Center, I am covering the Content Center editor interface and also start to walk you through the creation (copying) of a family table and how it gets populated. In case you missed […]

Synergis60 is your access to monthly webcasts by our Synergis Technical Team.  This month, we presented Inventor Templates, Part 1 that focused on templates for parts and assemblies. See the recording for Inventor Templates, Part 1, or check out the additional webcasts that we have listed on the Webinars page on our website. Want to […]

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Mark Lancaster, Product Support Specialist: Emailing an Inventor part file can sometimes be a challenge due to the file size restrictions that may be in place for a given email system.  Other viable solutions for sharing your design could be the use of the Autodesk 360® Services, a FTP […]

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Manufacturing Product Support Specialist: The other day I was browsing through my technical drawing (manual drafting) book and came across a section about laying out the views on your drawings.  It described how the “draftsperson” should take extra steps in determining the spacing between the (drawing) […]

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Product Support Specialist: A while back I had a request to create a dimension to an applied intersection on an Inventor drawing.  Normally this is not something that is done frequently, so I wanted to share the steps to remind everyone how this is accomplished. I […]

This month we started a new monthly event to offer an additional learning format for tools you use every day.  Synergis60 gives a short overview of the topic of the month, and then we open the lines to take questions from you so that you get the information you need.  Topics cover the range of […]

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Helpdesk: I came across a recent reply to an Autodesk discussion about creating rectangular patterns with unequal spacing.   In the past it was accomplished by suppressing the (patterned) features you didn’t require.   However if the spacing didn’t align with your needs, then it was not feasible […]

Posted October 10, 2013 by Jim Swain, Synergis Project Manager for Manufacturing Solutions: Has this ever happened to you: You are working on a sketch .  You drew four lines and added four dimensions.  When you go to edit the dimensions to their desired values, you get a very unexpected result.  Our Helpdesk often gets […]

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Bob Reid, Synergis Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: Primitives were introduced with the release of Inventor 2013.  There are currently four primitives that are available: box, cylinder, sphere and a torus.  When working with primitives, the sketch and extrusion process is automated.  You first select the start place for the primitive, then […]