My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. John McCarthy Over the course of the last few weeks of my copious spare time, I've been building up a chest of drawers in Autodesk Inventor . As far as I've gotten so far.  The drawers are in blue.

This is a blog maintained by the Inventor product support group at Autodesk. We plan to cover a plethora of subjects that we come across in our daily work, starting with the most recent 2012 release of Inventor but we will not shy away from topics going three releases back.

AutoCAD and Inventor Tips, Tricks & Tutorials. Learn how to use AutoCAD to create great shop drawings quickly and efficiently. Find out how to apply the British and International Technical Drawing standards to your dawings. Learn how to model your designs in with Autodesk Inventor, then create drawings and cutting tickets from the model.

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Every month Autodesk gives out an Inventor of the Month award, now is the time to choose from those winners and decide who the 2011 Inventor of the Year award goes to, and you get to help make that decision.

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Written by John Evans on February 3, 2012 Autodesk Labs just announced AutoCAD Civil 3D tools that might revolutionize the way you prepare site grading. Check it out.

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I hope to share some of the useful tips and tricks I've learned in the past and stumble across in the future on this blog.

Hello Vault users, aficionados, enthusiasts. Coming up, we'll be featuring some additional contributors to the Blog, covering all things Autodesk Vault (and more). Today's post comes from Irvin Hayes - Technical Product Manager for Autodesk Data Management - regarding something he ran across at AU 2011 in the exhibit hall: Ascent has the training material you need to learn about the Autodesk Vault Family of Products.

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Fractals? We're talking about fractals? Yes, yes we are. Recently, I took the family to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum to see their Fractals as Art exhibit...along with all of the other great stuff they have there. I have always thought fractals were pretty interesting, and seeing the results in various forms is always pretty compelling.

Autodesk Inventor 2012: 2D to 3D Autodesk Labs has released an updated version of the 2D to 3D tool for Autodesk Inventor 2012. This video shows a simple example of how the 2D to 3D tool can be used to convert a 2D drawing quickly and easily into an intelligent 3D component.

A question that came in regarding a customer who had a very large Filestore. They wanted to know if it is possible to split the filestore over several disks. Vault only supports placing the filestore on a single volume.

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So, how would I change Autodesk Cloud? Well… wouldn't it be great to use it as the back-end to update design files on your companies website? To all of my loyal readers, Twitter followers and Facebook fans… Happy holidays and have a great new year!

This post is an adjunct the Shaker Table series, and describes how to grab a decimal number from an Inventor Parameter, round that number to the nearest specified fraction, then pass that new number to a new parameter that will make its way to a Cutlist.What is happening here is that the model is reporting a length from a driven dimension which can have quite a few numbers after the decimal point.

The Problem: Quite a few years have gone by since Autodesk introduced Inventor, which is now a global leader in 3D design, replacing Mechanical Desktop (MDT). Mechanical Desktop has been sent into retirement and is no longer supported by Autodesk and subscription licensing agreements for 2009 are coming due this year, creating data migration challenges for those organizations still using MDT.

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As it's (thankfully) a Friday, its only right we try to avoid doing as much work as possible. Ok, so that may not be a good idea, but why not spend a few minutes watching a video that gives a quick insight into your favourite 3d tools 20+ year heritage.

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Design, Manufacture, and Market the World's Best Products Digital Prototyping is a revolutionary approach to product development that lets you design, visualize, and simulate products rapidly and cost-effectively. Help grow revenue, spur innovation, and deliver quality products faster than ever by using Digital Prototyping to: The Autodesk Solution for Digital Prototyping Green Ocean Energy relies on Autodesk Digital Prototyping to develop groundbreaking wave energy devices.

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iPropWiz v5 is an Autodesk Inventor addin that allows users to better control and manage the iProperties that define each model. iPropWiz replaces the built in Inventor iProperties dialog allowing you to only access the iProperties that you want to see.

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