3DCAD Tips - Covering SolidWorks, Pro|E, Catia, Inventor, Rino & other 3D CAD Applications.» Inventor http://www.3dcadtips.com Over 50,000 3D CAD Tips & Tutorials. 3D CAD News by applications and CAD industry news. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:56:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Autodesk software speeds nanotech research development at Brookhaven National Laboratoryhttp://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/autodesk-cad-suppliers/autodesk-software-speeds-nanotech-research-development-at-brookhaven-national-laboratory/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/autodesk-cad-suppliers/autodesk-software-speeds-nanotech-research-development-at-brookhaven-national-laboratory/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:53:17 +0000 Laura Carrabine http://www.3dcadtips.com/?p=15391 Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) named Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab) — a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy — as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for July in recognition of its innovative nanotechnology equipment.

Brookhaven Lab is the current home of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), one of the world’s most widely used scientific user research facilities. Each year, thousands of researchers use the facility’s bright beams of X-ray, ultraviolet and infrared light while conducting research in such diverse fields as biology, medicine, chemistry, environmental sciences, physics, and materials science.

Brookhaven Lab is building NSLS-II, an electron storage ring designed to produce X-rays more than 10,000 times brighter than the current NSLS. Nearly 900 feet in diameter, the NSLS-II will enable scientists to focus on important scientific challenges at the nanoscale level, such as generating new types of materials to harvest solar energy or developing high-temperature superconductors to transmit electricity more efficiently.

Brookhaven Lab mechanical designers, engineers, and scientists are relying on Autodesk Inventor software from authorized Autodesk system integrator Widom Associates to design and digitally prototype the complex NSLS-II equipment.

“There’s so much information we can get from a digital prototype created in Inventor software,” said Mike Loftus, supervisor of the mechanical design group for the NSLS-II project at Brookhaven Lab. “Inventor helps us select different materials, perform analysis and truly visualize our designs of the NSLS-II.”

Brookhaven Lab keeps track of its designs using Autodesk Vault Manufacturing software and uses Autodesk Navisworks software to share project models with Torcon, the general contractor charged with building the facility that will house the various NSLS-II components. The enhanced communication helps Brookhaven Lab and Torcon collaborate effectively while ensuring that construction of the NSLS-II remains on schedule.

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]]> http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/autodesk-cad-suppliers/autodesk-software-speeds-nanotech-research-development-at-brookhaven-national-laboratory/feed/ 0 Replace Face and Move Face in Inventorhttp://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/inventor/replace-face-and-move-face-in-inventor/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/inventor/replace-face-and-move-face-in-inventor/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:06:54 +0000 Matt Lombard http://www.3dcadtips.com/?p=12988 In Inventor, I use a lofted surface to replace a face of a solid, and then extend the solid with the Move Face command, stretching the area of the lofted surface.

]]> http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/inventor/replace-face-and-move-face-in-inventor/feed/ 0 Shrinkwrap Add-in for Inventor Available on Autodesk Labs!http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/inventor/shrinkwrap-add-in-for-inventor-available-on-autodesk-labs/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/cad-packages/inventor/shrinkwrap-add-in-for-inventor-available-on-autodesk-labs/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:38:34 +0000 3DCAD Editor http://3d2wp.3dcadtips.com/?p=6741 Shrinkwrap Add-in for Inventor enables users to quickly create a single part by removing all internal content from an assembly. New Shrinkwrap parts can be delivered with confidence to external consumers because the internal details can’t be uncovered. Users’ proprietary design information will stay confidential. Also, a Shrinkwrap part consumes substantially less memory compared to the fully detailed assembly.

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In this tutorial, we`ll examine methods to manage file properties, and take a look at the ways in which properties can help you document your designs.

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Inventor`s new feature, Functional Design, can quickly and directly modify geometry without taking a detour through component sketch and feature edits.

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Four useful tutorials on following topics: 1)Showing manipulating the IPT Sketch Coordinate System, 2)Showing dimensioning to implied intersections in IDW, 3)Shows a couple of methods of constraining a symmetrical rectangle in IPT Sketches and 4)Method toquickly creating a axis centered in a slot.

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Avatech gets you on the road to success with this session to show you the best features of Inventor. Before you get behind the wheel of Inventor we’ll steer you through:

Best practices for a speedy implementation of new software
Tips and tricks of Inventor
A sneak-peak of the workshop on the 30-day trial software

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Inventor Studio creates more realistic images while working inside Autodesk Inventor

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10 wishes for the next version presented to Autodesk at AU, includes features from `Assemblies Configurations` to `Material Hatch Patterns`, Mark W. Kiker, BLAUGI, November 30, 2005

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Trigonometric Functions in ParameterS (*.ipt); Adding Different Text or Terminator Sizes to the Defaults (*.idw); Redefine Isometric View (*.ipt/*.iam); Delete Versions From a Drawing File; Linking Parameters to a Parts List (*.ipt/*.iam); Stacking Balloons in an Assembly Drawing (*.idw); Rip Corners in Sheet Metal Parts (*.ipt); More…

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