You can define Custom Filters on a Folder View within Vault, when applied these selections apply to the Current View. You can use a Filter to return only the data you need from the Server, limiting the number of files in your view, increasing performance. Browse to the Folder that you require in Vault, then go… Read More

You want to know how to create a New Material Style for use in the Inventor Material Library. This Autodesk video shows how to create a New Style and Save it to your shared Design Data folder for all to see.

Most of you will be aware of the Arrange button on the new interface. This is a great tool, but unfortunately it only tiles open documents Horizontally, which can be limiting if you are trying to compare two models or work with two models that are taller than they are wider. It would be really… Read More

If you are a budding renderer, then head over the the Autodesk Showcase Blog, where they are running a competition for ATI graphics cards for your rendered images. Details from the Autodesk Showcase competition: Here at Autodesk, we all love to see see great 3D design and visualization work produced by talented individuals on the… Read More

The Point Cloud Shape Extraction for AutoCAD Plug-in is an intelligent point cloud shape extraction solution which allows you to import, load, and extract shape and geometry information from point cloud data in AutoCAD. Once installed, the tools for point cloud shape extraction are located in Point Cloud tab on the ribbon user interface. Availability… Read More

The 3D Annotation for Inventor Technology Preview allows the Inventor user to apply 3D Annotations: dimensions, geometric tolerances, surface finish symbols, datum symbols, and notes to a part model, which are then displayed in the graphics view. The technology preview is an emulation intended to provide the Inventor user with a sense of a 3D… Read More

Project Photofly is a Technology Preview to automatically convert photographs shot around an object or a scene into Photo Scenes using the power of cloud computing. The photographs can be shot with any standard digital camera, as long as you follow some shooting guidelines. The Photo Scene Editor for Project Photofly is a small application that… Read More

You can export the Parameter data to an XML file to take a snapshot of the Parameters and their values. This capability is useful if you want to transfer Parameters in one model to another.During the Export, you choose whether to include All Parameters or just the Key Parameters, see below to learn how this… Read More

Sometimes when you have created a complex Sketch within a new part that you then want to Extrude, it may not be possible to select the specific areas that you wish to Extrude. The example below shows a Sketch which has created a shape in the middle that we wish to Extrude, unfortunately because the… Read More

To map a files Revision Number from Inventor to a Vault Document Revision Number, you need to create a temporary User Defined Property (UDP) to write the property from file to a Vault User Defined Property. Then you can choose the User Defined Property to Revise from, see the video below for further information: This is an extract… Read More