Time for the first 'what's new' in R2009. The first thing is the view cube, which is located in the upper right of the screen (a...

Yes, it's that time of year again! The 2009 releases are here! I'll be trying to point out as much of the new stuff as I can in the...

Yes, as I quoted the Beatles on this one. I guess that means I'm getting old. :-) As I'm working some new tips (it has been a littl...

Today, I'm putting out a Vault tip that everyone may find useful. Copy Design. Copy design is a way of taking an assembly, and all the ...

So last time I talked about creating a design view, but here's a little about how to put one in a drawing. I have two covers, a blue and...

Sitting at home today, I was watching T.V. in between checking my eyelids for light leaks (in other words, I was napping), and caught a come...

I guess you can call this a Public Service Announcement. This actually happened, a disgruntled employee at a firm actually deleted years wor...

One of the often overlooked parts of Inventor (at least in my opinion), is Design Views, AKA View Representations. Using Design Views can be...

Finally! The first post of 2008! I started out the year by taking a snowboarding vacation to Mammoth, and the rest of the time catching up...

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-...