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For those of you that are interested in future releases and developments for Autodesk Inventor we thought you might like to take a look at the Inventor Fusion Technology Preview an innovative new Digital Prototyping technology that will change th way people thing about their 3D machanical design software.



Also for those of you that want to be involved in beta testing, Autodesk Inventor 2010 beta testing is underway. Information on this can be found here.



 

]]> News]]> Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:20:18 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - CATIA V5 Import Translator for Inventor]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/11/19/inventor-catia-v5-import-translator-for-inventor.html This technology preview gives you more flexibility when creating designs with vendor or customer data by allowing you to directly import CATIA V5 files into Autodesk Inventor. This translator reads both CATPart and CATProduct files bringing solids, surfaces, wires, and points into Autodesk Inventor to be directly utilized while modeling. Being able to import directly from CATIA V5 files eliminates the need to convert the CATIA data to make it usable in your projects.

Supported Autodesk Inventor Versions

You must have a licensed copy of Autodesk Inventor 2009 SP1 or the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 SP1 to run this add-in.

Supported Versions CATIA® V5 versions R6 through R18 are supported with this technology preview.

Get it now from here

]]> News]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:33:18 +0000 <![CDATA[Mechanical Desktop - Discontinuation]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/10/14/mechanical-desktop-discontinuation.html The decision to make Mechanical Desktop 2009 the last version of the product frees additional resources for development of the Autodesk® Inventor® and AutoCAD® Mechanical product lines.

We recognize that your company may have a large inventory of models and drawings created in Mechanical Desktop and that a large proportion of this Intellectual Property remains extremely valuable to you. To protect this data, Autodesk will continue to:

Provide product support for Subscription customers for a period of no less than three years after the removal of Mechanical Desktop from the Inventor product line.

  • Make Mechanical Desktop 2009 available for download with future releases of Inventor.
  • Support the DWG Import wizard in Inventor for Mechanical Desktop part, assembly and drawing files.

While you can continue to use Mechanical Desktop 2009 software as well as earlier versions, the best way to protect your existing data is to migrate your design operations to Autodesk Inventor. As a reminder, Mechanical Desktop has been provided "in the box" with Autodesk Inventor Suite since 2002. By using the latest version of Inventor software, your company will benefit from an industry leading 3D design tool for Digital Prototyping with the ease of use characteristics pioneered by Mechanical Desktop.

]]> News]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:09:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - Two Methods of Sharing Autodesk Inventor Data with AutoCAD]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/19/inventor-two-methods-of-sharing-autodesk-inventor-data-with-autocad.html You have worked and worked to get your Autodesk Inventor design finished. Your customer, internal or external, likes what you've designed, but needs to take your work and use it in their world. And their world is based on AutoCAD.

 

View this Skill Builder Sharing_with_Autocad.pdf(pdf - 152Kb)

]]> Tricks and Tips]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:23:20 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - New Options for Importing From Excel into a Sketch]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/19/inventor-new-options-for-importing-from-excel-into-a-sketch.html Back in release 2008 of Inventor the ability to import from an excel spreadsheet was added but at that time it was only point data.

Now with 2009 you have the ability to import that point data with two new options. You can have Inventor create line geometry between those points or spline geometry.

This will work for x,y coordinates from a 2d import or x,y,z coordinates from a 3d import.

]]> Tricks and Tips]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:11:25 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - Fast Assembly Constraints]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/19/inventor-fast-assembly-constraints.html Tricks and Tips]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:41:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - Assembly Selection]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/19/inventor-assembly-selection.html Learn how to quickly select groups of components with this interactive Skill Builder.

Assembly Selection Tools Skill Builder

]]> Tricks and Tips]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:48:18 +0000 <![CDATA[Inventor - Advanced Camera Animation]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/18/inventor-advanced-camera-animation.html
  • Create and associate cameras to paths.
  • Edit path based cameras.
    • This Skill Builder assists those who make animations of parts or assemblies. It provides the most straightforward way to animate cameras. We assume that you are using Autodesk Inventor 2009.]]>     Tricks and Tips]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:24:16 +0000     <![CDATA[Revit Extentions available for Revit Architecture 2009]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/05/revit-extentions-available-for-revit-architecture-2009.html Revit Extensions are a series of easy-to-use applications that extend the capabilities of Revit Architecture 2009 software in keyareas, including modeling, coordination, and documentation.Specifically, the extensions provided in this executable file are: GridGenerator, Freeze Drawings, Compare Models, Text Generator, ElementsPositioning, and Microsoft Excel®-based Model Generation.

    Nice to see these tools shared with Revit Architecture! Be sure to check them out!

    In order to access the extensions you must check in at the Autodesk Subscription site, log in.

    ]]>     News]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:44:05 +0000     <![CDATA[Revit - New Blog]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/05/revit-new-blog.html The Global Technical Lead for Revit with Product Support, Harlan Brumm has set-up a new Blog for the Revit Platform called The Revit Clinic at http://revitclinic.typepad.com

    This will be focusing on all the Revit Products and working to help customers prevent and solve BIM issues. Feel free to check it out.

    ]]>     News]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:25 +0000     <![CDATA[Revit - View Range Explained]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/05/revit-view-range-explained.html View Range ThumnailEvery plan and RCP view has a view property called View Range, also known as a visible range. The view range is a set of horizontal planes that control object visibility and display in the view. The horizontal planes are Top Clip Plane, Cut Plane, Bottom Clip Plane, and View Depth.
     

     

    As their names imply, the top and bottom clip plane represent the topmost and bottommost portion of the view range. The cut plane is a plane that determines at what height certain elements in the view are shown cut. These 3 planes define the primary range of the view range.

    ]]>     Tricks and Tips]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:47:38 +0000     <![CDATA[Revit - Adding a background image to your render]]> http://www.cadspec.co.uk/user/user/index.php/2008/09/05/revit-adding-a-background-image-to-your-render.html The functionality to use a background image while rending used to be available in earlier versions of Revit.  The new Mental Ray rendering engine includes the ability to create a generated sky and sun but if you need to show a specific background or site the ability to add an image is no longer available.   

    There is an alternative that you can use to get a background image in your rendering. 

    You can export the Rendering to a TIFF format which exports the sky as a separate alpha channel.  This makes replacing the sky in an image editor much easier.  You can use Photoshop or any other image editors that read and write the TIFF file format. However, this can be a little bit extra work and requires another program.  

    There is a way to get around this problem and do this all inside of Revit.

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