Jig & Fixture Design for Inventor

[scott.sheppard]

There is a new technology preview available on Autodesk Labs.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/inventor_jigs_fixtures/overview/

We would appreciate it if you would try it and provide some feedback.

[ravikmb5]

is there any chance to download all files

to use offline

[jncallen]

Hello!

Currently there is not a way to completely download the assets library to establish a local library. This is something that we are evaluating from users' feedback.

John Callen
Product Manager, Inventor Tooling/Jig & Fixture

[scottmoyse]

can you include some wood specific jigs & fixtures content please? woudl be awesome to create formers & fixing requirements for CNC's from this tool

[guyh]

Hi Scott,

Any chance of this being compatible with Inventor 2011?

Thanks,

Guy

[jncallen]

Guys,

There are some aspects of the UI that Jig & Fixture Design Tech Preview uses which are not available in Inventor 2011.  As such, there is currently no plan to back port the Jig & Fixture Design add-in to Inventor 2011.  Sorry.

--John Callen

Product Manager, Inventor Tooling - Jig & Fixture Design

[Anonymous]

Nice if you could include Rayco CMM fixture components.

[jncallen]

Thanks for the suggestion, John.

BTW, don't know if you realized it or not, but the Jig & Fixture Design Tech Preview does include authoring tools. If Rayco has digital models that can be read into Inventor, you could use the Jig & Fixture authoring tools to augment their models to be used within Jig & Fixture Design.

Thanks again,

--John Callen

Product Manager, Inventor Tooling/Jig & Fixture Design

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info, I have most of the components we use modeled already.

[jncallen]

John,

That's great that you have most of the components you use already modeled.  You're most of the way done!  It should be fairly straight forward using the Authoring Tool to augment your existing models so that they can be used in the Jig & Fixture Design Tech Preview.

Let me know if you try this and how it works for you!

thanks,

--John Callen

Product Manager, Inventor Tooling/Jig & Fixture Design

[gusi_cl]

I like a lot this labs!

I've a little bugs to explain...I can't make the final selection to constrain completely the object.

I'm using Inventor 2012 Professional with SP1 on win 7 x64 OS.

Thanks

Claudio

[jncallen]

Hello, Claudio.

I'm the Product Manager for the Jig & Fixture Tech Preview. We would greatly appreciate it if you could provide additional information regarding the bug you reported.  Can you provide model files and step-by-step workflow to duplicate the problem?

thanks in advance,

--John

[ArjanDijk]

Can I download this addin somewhere? Would be really helpfull, but I cant find it.

[LT.Rusty]

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@arjangreenock wrote:

Can I download this addin somewhere? Would be really helpfull, but I cant find it.

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Autodesk Labs tech previews are time-limited.  This one is three years old, so it's likely long since expired.  

[ArjanDijk]

I know that. I just hope to find this one somewhere. I could really use the fixtures in Inventor HSM. Otherwise I have to design everything myself

[LT.Rusty]

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@arjangreenock wrote:
I know that. I just hope to find this one somewhere. I could really use the fixtures in Inventor HSM. Otherwise I have to design everything myself

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It would be nice to have - I use HSM quite a lot myself - but it's expired.  Even if you found the installer files for it somewhere, you wouldn't be able to install it anymore.

[scott.sheppard]

All of the Autodesk Labs technology preveiws have built-in time bombs, so no one confuses them with perpertual functionality. Even if you found the old installer, the code would not run. Sorry.