Archive for December, 2009
Swift Prints – Now Free!
Dec 30th
Swift Prints allows you to create templates for common printer configurations that you can quickly access later for one click printing of Inventor drawings.
Happy New Year!
Now you can have it for free! That’s right… free!. All that I ask is you for the forums. Once registered, you can download from here. Please, please, please… provide feedback to this add-in and all of my add-ins via a post on the forums. Thanks, and enjoy!
CADToolbox.com Forums
Dec 15th
Our new forums are almost ready for prime time. You can find them here: http://www.cadtoolbox.com/forums/.
They will be focused 100% on the Inventor associated products. No AutoCAD or 3D Studio Max here. More content related posts in the forums coming soon.
There is quite a few forums for Inventor already, but I wanted to take a clean slate approach to focus on Inventor and Inventor related products only, without the clutter.
I have also refreshed the blog design and added a new web search tool. Let me know what you think.
Register for the forums here.
Question of the week: Did you attend AU 2009?
Dec 8th
I won’t ask how much you all lost at the Blackjack tables, but how many of you attended AU 2009?
Loading ...DWF on the iPhone – Getting Closer
Dec 4th
Look like we’re getting closer to having the ability to have Autodesk on your Apple iPhone. Recently, Autodesk has posted the Inventor Publisher Tech Preview on Labs which is an Inventor Fusion looking tool for creating interactive, 3D assembly documentation. Inventor Publisher allows you to import Inventor assembly files or DWF files and create exploded assemblies in a process like method and annotate as you go. From there you can export to DWF, video, PDF, PowerPoint or Word. This is all good, but wouldn’t be great if you could take these assembly instructions with you in your pocket to the shop floor or to a vendor?
This is where the pending Apple approval, iPhone app comes into play. See it in action here:
This is definitely taking things in the right direction for improved mobility for your Inventor designs. We’ve already seen the Sketchbook Mobile app for the iPhone. Who knows what else Autodesk has pending for the iPhone?
You can see Inventor Publisher in action in this YouTube video.
