Merry Xmas everyone! As I'm sitting here making my final preps for the holiday, I thought I'd put in a blog I've been intending ...

The elves at Autodesk Labs gave us a gift a little early this year (actually, it's been out for a few weeks), but for all of those who w...

Well, I just ran into my first 'HUH?' feature in Windows Vista. I was opening an Inventor assembly file, and got a 'No Error Mes...

Once again, I'm afraid that I haven't been good about blogging recently. But my evenings have been filled with much frustration and ...

No Inventor post today, I'm afraid. I do have something in mind, I just haven't had a chance to post it yet. But I did want to wish...

For those of you who attended the webinar I posted (Thank you again, by the way!), I promised to post up the sheet metal book with the ISBN ...

Here's a little something that I sometimes find myself getting tripped up by. Since Inventor R2008 can open a dwg without importing it, ...

On this Halloween, I thought I'd toss up a quick Projects tip; Frequently Used Subfolders. Let's say you're working with files t...

It's on its way now. Only a little time to Autodesk University. I put up this counter to keep track. I hope to see a few friends there...

As usual, it's been a busy time here at U.S. CAD, but I finally found a few minutes to post a little tip. One of the features that somet...

It's been a little while since I put anything up, but finally, a little bit of time to get something blogged. I had one of those 'A-...

Nothing on the Inventor front right this second. But I do have some stuff in the works. But I did want to put up a Public Service Announcem...

As promised to everyone who came out to the Southern California CAD Summit, here's how I created the emboss punch in Inventor 2008. Step...

Well, for those of us who reuse AutoCAD data, there's been an interesting little glitch that's popped up. Fortunately, we do have a ...

Just a little constraint tip from the 2008 camp. Some of us old (now I'm dating myself) MDT users might remember something a little lik...

For those who may not have heard yet. Inventor LT was issued a bit ago. Currently it's free. Its functionality is only composed of par...

Well here's another 'latest and greatest' 2008 option. Isometric dimensions. Not the fakey ones we did in the past. Honest to...

In between the usual schedule, here's the first tip for Inventor 2008. I've noticed that Inventor is trying hard to be helpful, and ...

Well, it's that time of year again. New release season. Inventor 2008 is coming around the bend, and with it, all sorts of new bells, w...

Autodesk has released a hotfix for Microsoft's hotfix. It can be downloaded here . Make sure you download the correct version for your p...