Practical tips and insights for engineers, CAD managers and work preparation, on exporting, bills of materials, model management, standardization and saving time.
A PDF, a DWG, a DXF and a STEP for every drawing: exporting manually in Inventor is twelve steps you repeat over and over. With Batch Publish you write out your entire set in 1 click, including together with Vault. Read how to save time and avoid errors.
Read more →Getting the bill of materials out of Inventor and into Excel is often an error-prone quarter-hour of cutting and pasting. Read why that goes wrong and how you solve it with an export where you set the columns and order yourself, fed by iProperties that are correct.
Read more →Leftover sketches, suppressed parts and an unreadable browser are invisible on your screen, but show up in the bill of materials and on the shop floor. Run through this 8-point checklist before you release an Inventor model, and read how Model Cleaner takes the detective work off your hands.
Read more →One incorrectly filled iProperty field multiplies through your entire chain: bill of materials, title block, PDFs and ERP. Here is how to structure metadata at the source and enforce consistency with Thundercad's iProperty Menu.
Read more →Exporting, retyping bills of materials, cleaning up models: each task seems like nothing on its own, but together, repetitive work in Inventor is a cost that appears nowhere on your dashboard. We make those costs measurable with a transparent calculation example.
Read more →Standardization sounds like something for large departments with a CAD manager and a thick manual. Nonsense. With a small team in particular, you capture agreements smartly by putting the standard into your Inventor tools instead of into a document nobody reads.
Read more →iLogic is powerful, but building scripts yourself has hidden costs: maintenance, Inventor updates and dependency on a single script hero. A sober comparison between building it yourself and a maintained toolbox such as Thundercad, including a rule of thumb for when to choose what.
Read more →Vault keeps your data tidy, but it does not publish PDFs and does not fill in iProperties. Read how Thundercad removes the repetitive manual work in your Inventor Vault workflow: from Batch Publish to consistent metadata.
Read more →A wrong material code costs engineering ten seconds, but costs purchasing a wrong order. Here is how you catch errors at the source, in the Inventor model, not on the purchase order, with Model Cleaner, the iProperty Menu, BOM Export and Batch Publish.
Read more →Exporting, retyping BOMs, filling in metadata, getting files ready: routine work that adds nothing to your design. We walk through five concrete time-wasters in Inventor and show for each one which Thundercad tool takes the work off your hands.
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