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Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for Drafters using Autodesk Inventor to Set out Woodwork, Joinery, Millwork and Cabinetry.

101 Autodesk Inventor productivity tips you can use right now!

101 One Hundred and one Autodesk Inventor Tips

We can all use an extra edge to help us get our drawings out just a little quicker. Here are over 100 links to my favourite Autodesk Inventor tips from my favourite Inventor Bloggers from around the web.

There are some great resources out there on the web, and I try and track as many as I can. In researching this post, I had a great time trawling through the Archives of some of my Favourite Inventor bloggers. A big thank you to Curtis WaguespackJohn Evans and Scott MoyseMark RandaJon LanderosChris from SymetriJamie DitsworthMark FlaylerSteve Bedder and Thomas Rambach for all your hard work and dedication to the cause.

If you can read, understand and retain all the information in all these posts, you will be able to consider yourself an Inventor Master!

How to copy Autodesk Inventor Parameters between documents.

Autodesk Inventor Import and Export Parameters fly out

Did you ever forget to add a crucial parameter to your template file, only to realize that you are no going to have to recreate it in every part you created from that template?

Find out how to use Autodesk Inventor’s Import and Export Parameter tools to copy Parameters and their values between documents.

(2011 and onwards)

An Autodesk Inventor iCopy Tutorial

An Autodesk Inventor iCopy tutorial

It all started with a Direct Message from @JohnEvansDesign (the AUGIworld content manager for Inventor) on Twitter.

‘I need some help – Can you write 2000 words on any Inventor Topic by the end of the week?’

‘Hmm’ I thought, I could do something on iCopy – I haven’t seen very much around on that…

3500 words and four days later – still with lots to say – I was beginning to think that I had bitten off more than I could chew!

Finally, with some sound editing advice from John, my first ever article for AUGI was born…

Autodesk Inventor for Woodworkers – Where do I start?!

Autodesk Inventor Questions

Are you considering implementing Autodesk Inventor at your company? Don’t know where to start? Read this start up guide from someone who’s been there!

Inventor Constraint Persistence: My Best Friend. My Worst Enemy.

Inventor Persistent Constraints My Best Friend My Worst Enemy

Mastering Autodesk Inventor’s sketching environment is all about mastering Constraints. And mastering Constraints is all about mastering Constraint Inference and Constraint Persistence.

The secret to successfully copying an Autodesk Inventor Assembly

An-Autodesk-Inventor-Assembly-is-just-a-bucket-of-components-really

If you want to create a copy of an Assembly, you also need to copy all the Sub Assembly and Part files (Components) that go with it.

And that’s not all. If you are copying files within a Project, you will also need to re-name all the components, otherwise Inventor may find the wrong version of the component that you intended to be used in the new Assembly.

And that’s not all! An Assembly file contains is a list of Hyperlinks to other Assembly and part files. If you copy, move and rename all the sub components of an Assembly, you will also need to repair all those Internal Hyperlinks.