Once upon a time, I was asked, in reference to Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Fusion 360, "Why would someone want to have a fillet fe...

I've spent just over 20 years working with 3D CAD programs. That experience has been nearly exclusively with the Autodesk manufacturing ...

A question that was recently posed to me was; "How would you model safety wire in an assembly?"  Safety wire on a fuel divider on ...

My threads! They don't work!  Earlier this week, I noticed that I couldn't select threads in my installation of Autodesk Invento...

***Disclaimer!*** The pictures I'm using for this blog post are of my home laptop running Autodesk Fusion 360 with a CADMouse and Spac...

I can't believe it !  On this very day, in 2006, I created my first blog post  for InventorTales. It was under a different name then, ...

Today is a "5 minute" post.  Just a little idea I had while working in Autodesk Inventor.  In my current engagement, I'...

My father had many a humorous saying.  One I remember came from his days as an aircraft mechanic for over 40 years. "Mark it with a m...

I've been quiet on this blog the last couple of months, but life has been busy, and blogging had to take a low priority. The last fe...

In my adventures taking aircraft maintenance classes at Mount San Antonio College, I've learned a lot of things.  Not the least of ...

A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to write for the CAD Setter Out .  In that p ost that you can find here , I wrote about some of the se...

Work has been picking up again, which is good!  Being busy beats not being busy for sure! But this weekend, I did find time to install m...