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Have you tried Autodesk Inventor AND Fusion 360 ? Which is best? The good news is, you don’t need to decide. You can now use both these tools for what they are best at! Autodesk Inventor is Autodesk’s...

It’s that time of the year again to look at the new features for Autodesk Inventor 2019 . We always look forward to these releases to see which improvements and new features have been added to help us...

The 26th March 2018 marked the official release of Autodesk’s latest instalment in the Inventor Professional product family, the 2019 version. This year has seen the BETA site awash with fresh faces d...

The brand new Inventor annotate tab means that creating and dimensioning 3D PDF’s from either part or assembly files is now simple. Dimensions, symbols and notes can be placed on to the 3D model and s...

We all have our own handy little Inventor  tips and tricks, and in this tutorial, I am going to share some of my favourites – I hope these help to get you up and running in the new year. 1 - Sket...

We all need an accurate bill of materials (BOM) at the end of the day, and most of us don’t even use the fantastic bill of materials option, which is available in the Autodesk Inventor assembly enviro...

Autodesk’s Nastran In-CAD software is one of the foremost Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools for manufacturers to simulate their designs, offering a range of features to maximise your manufacturing p...

Following up on our guide to Inventor Positional Representations I thought I would take the time to go through the Autodesk Inventor level of detail . By default, in an assembly file there are four le...

Most of the designs we create using Autodesk Inventor are built as fixed non-moving assemblies that never reflect the intended purpose of the finished product. Positional representations can be used t...

3D Printing with Fusion 360 is a user friendly experience, with some simple and effective workflows. If send to a 3D print utility is not selected, Fusion will export straight to a STL file format and...