BillB
8th Jan 2009, 06:21 pm
Hello Guys & Gals
I am a Design Coordinator for a small machine manufacturing shop that builds specialized machines for various industries. I presently do designs in 2D Autocad ( 2002), but the BOSS came in the other day and threw an Inventor 2009 Pro box on the desk and said we were going to 3D design and I need to start implementing it, which is great. The area I want to get correct at the beginning is a good start at File Management, especially blocks/files from outside vendors (air/hyd. cylinders, springs, fasteners, etc.). Some or all of the vendor supplied blocks/dwg’s may be used in various jobs/customers designs, so where would the proper location and/or paths be located for these files, especially if our Inventor design files need to be shared with someone on the outside. Any suggestions to Links or Tutorials where I can get some good ideas to make this as painless as possible would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
BillB
I am a Design Coordinator for a small machine manufacturing shop that builds specialized machines for various industries. I presently do designs in 2D Autocad ( 2002), but the BOSS came in the other day and threw an Inventor 2009 Pro box on the desk and said we were going to 3D design and I need to start implementing it, which is great. The area I want to get correct at the beginning is a good start at File Management, especially blocks/files from outside vendors (air/hyd. cylinders, springs, fasteners, etc.). Some or all of the vendor supplied blocks/dwg’s may be used in various jobs/customers designs, so where would the proper location and/or paths be located for these files, especially if our Inventor design files need to be shared with someone on the outside. Any suggestions to Links or Tutorials where I can get some good ideas to make this as painless as possible would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
BillB