Re: Inventor Wishlist

Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

Sorry AUGI, we're taking over 🙂

The wishlist is up to 9 pages now. Have at it guys & gals:

Add to wishlist:

http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11271&start=0

List of all the wishes & discusison about them:

http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11322

For the record, Autodesk is watching this list...

PACDrafting · ‎09-03-2010

Sean

Add to the list.

Ability to assign properties to solids before using make components.

Also, lock in corresponding parameters to its solid body when creating parts. Currently a manual process to grab the required parameters.

mcgyvr · ‎09-03-2010

@Anonymous wrote:
Sorry AUGI, we're taking over 🙂

For the record, Autodesk is watching this list...

Autodesk was watching the Augi wishlist too...

Joking aside there are LOTS of great wishes on the Mcad list... I really love the wishes from that mcgyvr guy.

Sean..Plan on having a voting cycle similar to Augi?... Right now it's just hundreds of wishes.. Many that I and others could care less about. Some way to rank them into things that many people would want will be a nice addition. "Hopefully" this would allow Autodesk to see what there is a real need for and not something 1 guy wants.

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Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

"I really love the wishes from that mcgyvr guy"...

Really? He seems clueless to me 😉

Yes, was thinking about the votiong cycle idea as well. Open to suggestions.

mcgyvr · ‎09-03-2010

@Anonymous wrote:
"I really love the wishes from that mcgyvr guy"...

Really? He seems clueless to me 😉

Yes, was thinking about the votiong cycle idea as well. Open to suggestions.

Ouch that stings.. 🙂

Not sure what features you have with your board software but many have simple voting/reporting functionality as part of the package. Just need to have a stop date for submissions then feed the wishes into the program and away you go.. I'd actually like to see the wishes broken up into areas like "vault specific" "part environment" "assy environment",etc...

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Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

Yes there are voting oiptions. Not a bad idea about breaking them up into categories.

msklein · ‎09-03-2010

I GUESS that I need to go over and check the list and add my request that I've been asking for since 2000. It should be the very fist modgule for any new or old CAD system a real spell checker with technical terms in the library, not the MS piece of ________ , that really does not work. I still remember the one I used as a ad-on or Acad that was great and was at the time only $10 per seat, Cadedit. As a text editor it was great and as a spell checker it had a large technical word list and you could add to you're hearts content more words. I never understud why Autodesk did'nt buy the one man company out back in the eary 90's, it could not of been that expenseive. It had to be cheaper that what they are paying MS for their spell checker.

msk

Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

I do see using the MS dictionary as a benifit becuase many of the words you use in Inventor you will probably use in Word and other programs (outfeed, lowerator, customer names etc..). So no need to have two dictionaries with different sets of words.

But I do see your point as well.

Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

@msklein wrote:
I GUESS that I need to go over and check the list and add my request that I've been asking for since 2000. It should be the very fist modgule for any new or old CAD system a real spell checker with technical terms in the library, not the MS piece of ________ , that really does not work. I still remember the one I used as a ad-on or Acad that was great and was at the time only $10 per seat, Cadedit. As a text editor it was great and as a spell checker it had a large technical word list and you could add to you're hearts content more words. I never understud why Autodesk did'nt buy the one man company out back in the eary 90's, it could not of been that expenseive. It had to be cheaper that what they are paying MS for their spell checker.
msk

Eyev god no klew wiy yew wood nied a spel chekr, msk. Eye woodent of thot yewed nied wun. I thinq you're speling iz jusd fein.

msklein · ‎09-03-2010

Sean, have you tried to use the MS spell checker? Once you open it you then have to reduce the IV window to find the spell checker and for some reason it rests the font size in the spell checker to 2 point so you need to change so you can read it. Does not effect text size in dwg at least. Also what it will spell check is very limited, can't spell check Field text.

msk

Anonymous · ‎09-03-2010

Honestly I have not. So the problem you have seems to be implementation (user interface) right? Rather than the actual dictionary it uses?

msklein · ‎09-07-2010

No, both MS has a very limited expansion unless you create a new dictionary for engineering terms then you have to keep switching back and for between dictionary's. see my comments under customization group

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/spell-checker/m-p/2699443#M32351

msk

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2012

I would like the ability to save components internally to an assembly. It bothers me that inventor creates so many files that I then have to organize and file away. I do not want to use vault. Nor do I want to use multi bodie parts for I need the BOM. It would make my weldments turn into a single file instead of dozens of files.

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2012

"I would like the ability to save components internally to an assembly. It bothers me that inventor creates so many files that I then have to organize and file away. I do not want to use vault. Nor do I want to use multi bodie parts for I need the BOM. It would make my weldments turn into a single file instead of dozens of files."

This would be especially useful in Frame Generator mode, seeing as I find it unlikely that I'll want to use the frame pieces elsewhere. The option to individually extract if you do want to re-use them would be also welcome from a flexibility POV.

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2012

How about dimensioning in a drawing. If I make a view of a sheet metal part, seen from the side.

Then, without any sketching in view, make a dimension aligned to the edge of the part. (see picture)

The function has been i Acad since R9, so I think it's about time to get it in to Inventor.

mrattray · ‎09-11-2012

This is a good one.

These are the wishlists that actually get attention from AutoDesk, I suggest you post this there:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794

http://www.augi.com/wishlist

Mike (not Matt) Rattray

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2012

i wish 3 things in frame generator

1- for the notch command: if i have 2 tubes in frame generator, i want to be able to do a notch on tube #1 using a profile notch in tube #2, the use a profile notch in tube #2 to do a notch on tube #1 without the cycling error... in my line of work i have notchs that need to be done like that and for now i have to duplicate some member just do to some notch on others...

2- in the frame generator, if i need to do multi bodies so i can have my profil and the gasket on it ( i work in curtain wall, and i use the FG to do my frame, i do a 3d skecth in a part, wich i use in 3 different assembly, 1 for the mullion, 1 for the pressure plate, and finally 1 for the caps.. since i want to show the gasket and thermal barrier, i done this buy using multi bodies in thepart i've publish) .. it work exept for the mitter and some angular trim where the bodies other than the base extrution won't adjust...

i counter that by go in the part, use the work plane the trim command add and the do some split... but i have to do this for every other bodie my profil have cuz you can't do a split on multiples solids .. that could be a nice add on to...

3- it would be nice to be able to tell the structural shape autoring what to reconize as the geometry, that way i could use the orientation like top, center and right etc.. instead of having to use 1 custom point....

i hope this is clear, i know i made wish without explaining exaclty how i work with the frame generator

but if you need more info just ask

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2012

Here is big one for those of us that use Massive assemblies.

Problem: Say you have a top level General Arrangement Model (e.g 5km Conveyor) consists of say 40,000-50,000 individual parts and 210,000 instances of those parts (Massive) even using shrinkwrap and all the work arounds that Autodesk have put in place for large assemblies instead of actually addressing the issue (different Problem) still a massive model. This model is placed on a IDW (Drawing), currently takes forever to generate the views (can live with this). The drawing is completed and then saved and closed.

There is a problem with the drawing, the name in the title block needs to change or a note or something that has nothing to the detail views on the IDW. So you open the drawing in deferred update. Inventor opens the drawings with only some of the parts being load (great the drawing opens quickly so we can make the changes). Heres the problem, once you make a change inventor feels the need to load all of the parts, still in deferred update.

eg. We had a drawing of a GA with 32,000 instances of 7600 parts. Initial opening of the drawing in deferred update parts open count was only 115, instanances 32,000 - we change the title block --> click apply and then inventor when ahead and load the othe 7500 parts into memory, had to wait about 10 minutes for inventor to complete whatever inventor does.

Solution: Have a second options below defer updates, "DO NOT LOAD PARTS" - in short this would lock the drawings views from being update and would prevent any of the componets from being load. This would more or less like and AutoCAD DWG file and hence no links back to model. I think that this would allow for uses to work on large assembly drawings with more efficiency.

I hope that I have explained this well, if not please respond with your questions and will clarify.

Mark

PACDrafting · ‎09-11-2012

Makes sense to me Ando......

Defer Updates is meant to do this anyway isnt it???

Come on Autodesk start to get it right! Fix up your current problems instead of continuously publishing new versions unfinished.........SW are only bringing 2013 out now.........Id imagine fully debugged!

achim.hager · ‎10-11-2018

Hello.

I want to add as whish, that future Servicepacks (f. e. Inventor2018.2.exe) should be delieverd as MSI package.

Why? EXE Files can be installed silent via a Software Distribution system but do not deliver easy feedback if the installation is successful or failed. And if failed there is no reason shown. This makes for all updates our live hard when we rollout the Updates over a huge number of computers and for the bunch of different products.

Solution 1: Deliver the install package as MSI file

Solution 2: (if 1 is not possible) support and deliver a documentation to use the "extraced" exe content.

We did this with Inventor2018.2.exe and we got the recommened sequence to proceed. Now with Inventor2018.3 the developement does not support going this way.

We have the same problems also with ACA, Navisworks Sim, Navisworks Man, Inventor,...

Please consider that change and take note that in a enterprise environment Software is installed via a Software Distr. System and not via your software.

Thanks

Achim

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