Tips & Tutorials Blog: tips

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Vault Application Specialist, Joseph Corson The way Autodesk Vault searches can be confusing at times. You perform a search for “ABC-123” expecting to return only files with ABC-123 in that order, but instead you get files with ABC after 123, and many values between them. What’s going on here? Vault Tokens […]

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Synergis Product Support Specialist, Mark Lancaster As more and more of you transition into a subscription based licensing there’s one thing you may have overlooked because it wasn’t really something you considered in the past.  With each Autodesk contract, there are two (2) management roles which are required for managing […]

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Synergis Manufacturing Applications Consultant, Dave Breiner See how to use sketch blocks to assist in those sometimes complex sketches utilizing AutoCAD and a DXF file.

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Synergis Manufacturing Applications Consultant, Dave Breiner 4 new Inventor tips and tricks all packed into this 9-minute video: Slice Graphic Placing Holes on a sketch Controlling and Suspending Auto Constraints in a sketch Adding an Offset Plane while in Sketch Mode [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxyyrRcM8Q&w=560&h=315]

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Jim Swain, Synergis Project Manager for Manufacturing: Setting up an analysis can have some frustrating moments. Often the available data for boundary conditions and such are from different sources, and in different units. In Simulation Mechanical you can change the Display Units in the Browser to switch between various […]

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Product Support Specialist: Creating a single color back drop on your Inventor drawing sheet is very straight forward and is accomplished through the Tools/Document Settings interface. Here’s a retro look, making it look like those days when blueprints existed. I want to take a few minutes and […]

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Jim Swain, Synergis Project Manager, Manufacturing Solutions: Inventor’s plastic part design tools simplify the creation of many types of features common to plastic parts.  We receive calls about the best way to use these tools all the time.  Last week, I was helping a customer with making grills, so […]

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Jim Swain, Project Manager, Manufacturing Solutions: Inventor’s plastic part design tools simplify the creation of many types of features common to plastic parts.  This tip will look at the Rib tool. The Rib tool allows the easy creation of free-standing or connected thin walls.  It uses a single sketch […]

February 4, 2013, posted by Todd Schmoock, Manufacturing Solutions Engeineer: You are planning to install AutoCAD Electrical, but you are not sure how to configure the installation correctly.  Most will simple click the install button only to find out you didn’t install all the features until after you installed the software and start using it.  […]

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 […]