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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Create New Tabs in Autodesk Inventor's New File Dialog Box


“Organize your life around your dreams - and watch them come true.”
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Every time I train an Autodesk Inventor class, I mention this particular tidbit.

How to create a new tab in your New File Dialog Box in Inventor.

Where did the Woodshop & KETIV tabs come from?
It comes in handy to help organize templates.  For example, you can move commonly used templates to the front.  Meanwhile, you can move lesser used, but still needed templates to the back.

It's simple, but many times it's those simple tricks that shave a few moments from an often repeated task that show the greatest value.

It's sort of when I got my first car with electric windows.  It wasn't like it was hard to reach over to crank down the window in my old car.  But it was sooo much nicer that I could just press the button instead! 

In short, you create a subfolder in your template directory, and save a file to it.  It's pretty simple.  But here's a video to go with it!




2 comments:

  1. does stock size can be generated automatically for each individual part in inventor 2015??(using VBA script)

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    1. Yes. Using VBA to generate a stock size would be possible.

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