Sometimes, the internet hiccups. And I found that happened with my Autodesk A360 account earlier this week. This is *not* a glitch in t...

It's sizing up to be a hectic week, but here's a really quick tip I discovered  while creating some aircraft fluid fittings in Fusio...

A few years ago, I added a tab to InventorTales I named "Websites Jon Likes". It contained resources I found helpful, or just a ...

Recently, I've been doing a lot of work with content center lately.  I've been building content, publishing content, and fixing cont...

This post is a bit more "manufacturing focused" than CAD focused.  It was brought on by my most recent experience in design. I w...

This Friday's post is just a video of old technology.  It's just a fun way to look back on how things were, "once upon a time&q...

Just a tick over a year ago, I tried an experiment to build a 3D model of the aileron horn Spanish BF-109.  Then I printed it in 3D to prov...

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, ...

Have you ever looked at a manufacturing process and thought, "When was that process developed?" I had that moment looking at a s...

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

Wrapping up an aircraft maintenance class is a bittersweet experience for me. On one hand, I miss sitting in a hangar full of airplanes,...

I've been busy.  Crazy busy.  It's why I have been really bad about blogging. The last five weeks, I've been taking an Aircraf...

InventorTales has been quiet of late, as you may have noticed.   And it because I've been wrapped up in a few of my other pursuits.  ...

Just this week, I had to figure out how to find the internal volume of a hollow structure. Liquid in a bottle is the typical example.  A...