Recent content by Panzer1970

In our legacy ACAD data we used the parts library for fasteners and the balloon command in a manual mode. We did not use the automated BOM in ACAD. The problem is the inserted fasteners and the balloons created reference points and that creates a database within the drawing. When one assigns an...

My company went with Inventor (unfortunetly) and if I did not have a 3D controller I would have gone insane.

Switch to Solidworks you would be much happier

There is a command in the Express Tools called Propulate. It allows one to do exactly what I had asked in my first post. However you need to specify the Tag Name and the information that you wish copied over to the DWG properties in a template file and this is block specific. Now I just need...

I am looking for a batch utility that will read the information contained within a block's attributes. Then write that information along with the tag name into the file properties of dwg file. Does anyone know if such a utility exists?

I am currently writing my company's standards. I just finishing the section on part and assembly naming convention (title/description creation) which I based off of ASME Y14.100 and the DRM 10th edition section eight. What I would like to do next is develop a set of acceptable terms to help...

"One piece of advice I got over and over was to have procedures prior to starting a PDM/PLM deployment. In order for PDM/PLM to work, you have to know what & how to do things. If you try to implement PDM/PLM to solve a lack of procedures & discipline your iimplementation is more likely to fail...

Everyone, Thanks for your input! ctopher: Autodesk Vault is a database that provides version control not revision control, really it is a very watered down PDM/PLM. The only real advantage or reason for using Vault is that Vault allows for multiple user enviroment. Inventor uses a project...

I got limited response from the Inventor Forum so I'll try this here? Can anyone offer any input? Thanks original post My company is in currently examining our current engineering practices and looking for ways to improve upon them. Currently, our methods are very poor, we are lacking clearly...

What is the large assembly performance like in 11 versus 10?

Start checking the competition's webistes for 3D content and then show that to your boss.

have you tired using a reference assembly?

DesignerMike (Mechanical) "How many people are in your group?" Currently we have 12 people in our CAD group they include Inventor users, Autoucad users and ORcad (electrical) users. Other information 3.0 GHz Pentium 1.5 Gb RAM nVidia XGL 980 128 Mb Graphics Cards OS: Windows XP Inventor R10...

My company is in currently examining our current engineering practices and looking for ways to improve upon them. Currently, our methods are very poor, we are lacking clearly defined SOP's and not really practicing the ones we do have. One of the ways we hope to improve upon this is to...

if you ordered the cd's then yes it did come with 4 cd