The Inventor Mesh Enabler is a free (But time limited) technology preview that enables Inventor users to work with imported Mesh data.
As shipped Inventor 2012 can import mesh data from Catia, STL and JT files. The Mesh Enabler for 2013/2012 adds the ability to post process the imported mesh data to convert the mesh features to Inventor Base features.
Find out how it’s done in this quick tutorial.
First came, Project Freewheel, then Autodesk Freewheel, and then Project Nitrous. Autodesk have always been at the cutting edge of sharing drawings over the web. Autodesk’s latest ‘CAD in the Cloud’ solution ‘Project Quickshare’, takes the HTML 5 DWF Viewer from Project Nitrous and allows you to upload your DWF’s without downloading any software having to have an account.
Check out this Autodesk labs ‘Plugin of the Month’ – a handy tool for turning Autodesk Inventor Thread Features into realistically modelled 3D threads.
A review of the ADN Plugin of the Month, DrawOrder By Layer for AutoCAD
The world of 3D digital prototyping is moving toward a world without drawings. But the 3D CAD model doesn’t tell the whole story. Find out more about adding annotations to a 3D Autodesk Inventor model in this post.
The FeatureMigrator can reliably migrate an assembly feature to the part level. This can save a lot of time and effort for the user when compared with the manual approach, i.e. creating the equivalent features in the affected parts.
