While developing courseware for Inventor 2025 users, our author noticed a slight change in how her model was reacting when orbiting it using the {Shift} + MMB keys. Upon further investigation, she wanted to share an enhancement in the 2024.1 software that she found helpful. We hope you find this enhancement useful as well!
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Did you know? Sheet Metal cuts and faces have now been transitioned to the Properties panel interface.
With the 2025 release, the Face feature is now presented using the Properties panel. Here are a few observations on creating face features.
Here's an enhancement applicable to the Inventor 2024.1 software (and later), when orbiting and using the {Shift} + MMB keys.
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Here is a list of new options I found helpful that you can now use in some of the Toolpaths in Inventor 2023 CAM
The Home page is the first thing that you see when you open Inventor 2023. Do you know how to use all of its tools and features? If not, read on!
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Autodesk has included functionality that enables you to generate a flat surface from a selected face or faces on your part models. This can be done using the Unwrap command which I will explain here.
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