Being Inventive

New kid on the blog: Up and Ready blog

Here at BeingInventive central we not too often blog about installation and licensing issues. This is for a good reason. The real authority in this domain can be found on a different Autodesk support blog and we don't want to duplicate information.So check out the Up and Ready Blog if you have problems with installing or authorizing our products.

The Up and Ready Blog is a blog maintained by a team of 5 product support engineers with a collective experience of 57 years (!) dealing with installation, set-up and configuration of Autodesk products. So you can't go wrong with that pedigree. The blog is relatively new but it will pick up steam in no time. Hence I have a very simple advise for you: point your RSS feed readers to http://feeds.feedburner.com/UpAndReady and you will be pleasantly surprised.

Please join us in welcoming and wishing many years of successful blogging to the folks from Up and Ready blog.

Cheers

Bob

Tag clouds: are they useful?

We here at Autodesk think they are. Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. And that is exactly what tag clouds are all about.

As you might or might not know Autodesk recently added tagging capability to its newsgroup posts. Everyone can add personal tags or (preferably) reuse existing tags.It allows you to highlight which topics are important to you and it allows us to easily spot the more popular ones. Here are the tag results that I recently collected from the Inventor newsgroup:

 

By removing the obvious tags (Help, Error, Problem, Drawing, Assembly, Part, File), we can easily get a more refined view of what is going on on the Inventor newsgroup.

 

Outside the obvious big 3 (Part, Assembly and Drawing), I think there is a need for information or trouble shooting in areas such as Sketching, Content Center, FEA, Vault, iLogic, Frame Generator, Excel, iPart and BOM. Especially the presence of Sketching in this list surprised me.

Here is the same tagging technique used on the categories of this Inventor blog.

 

By comparing the two clouds,  we can make sure that the blog posts we create are relevant by matching them to the subject matter interest as formulated on the newsgroup.

I must admit that we haven't created any blog posts on Sketching yet (assuming that it was an easy to understand module of Inventor without too many problems). Maybe we need to revisit this approach and offer more sketch related articles. 

Let us know what you think of this conclusion.

Bob

R2009Sp2 has arrived

Services pack 2 for R2009 and the accompanying client update for ADMS are now available through the regular  Autodesk Inventor Services & Support page.

Here are direct links to the downloadable files

Autodesk Inventor 2009 Service Pack 2

Inventor 2009 Service Pack 2 Client Update for Autodesk 

Along with many other enhancements, the following specific hot fixes are included in this service pack:
 

• Inventor unexpectedly exits mirroring an assembly 
  
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when user attempts to run Update Documents
  
• Some non-English language characters not translated correctly in PDF
  
• Migration problems with Inventor 2009 SP1 and sheet metal parts
  
• Inventor 2009 SP1 unexpectedly exits on Vista x64 SP1
  
• Wrong text printed when Converting drawing to pdf
  
• Drawing View Problem in Inventor 2009
  
• Custom library has missing data after migration from ADMS 2008 to ADMS 2009
  
• Regression in Performance-Work Features & Derived Component
  
• Content center family table is empty after publishing an iPart with some fraction units in it

Welcome to the Inventor support blog!

 This is a blog maintained by the Inventor product support group at Autodesk.

We plan to cover a plethora of subjects that we come across in our daily work, starting with the most recent 2012 release of Inventor but we will not shy away from topics going three releases back.

We hope our experience will be also your gain and that the posts we will publish here will make your life with Inventor even more pleasurable.

And remember: be inventive with Inventor.

Bob