(Between the Lines): If you have tried out the Autodesk Inventor 2022, and found the feature Model States a favorite, you can thank a fellow Autodesk Inventor user Curtis W. and 767 people that voted, and 90 who commented on it. The request was in the Inventor Product Ideas board where people share and vote on ideas for future product releases..
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This headline immediately reminded me of the open letter by the architecture and construction industries regarding Autodesk's ignoring of Revit users and industry needs. As the letter stated, "Where once Autodesk Revit was the industry enabler to smarter working, it increasingly finds itself a constraint and bottleneck. Practices find that they are paying more but using Revit less because of its constraints." It seems that Autodesk has taken this complaint to heart, as this article indicates that the company not only reads its support forums, but adds features desired and suggested by its users for Inventor. While I don't use Inventor much, it is nice to see Autodesk turn around, especially as they (and other companies that provide common industry-favorite products, e.g. Adobe) continue to raise the price of their products by significant margins, making it harder for small companies or freelancers to partake in their ecosystem, forcing them to turn to lower quality products or even piracy to accomplish their work without braking the bank.
I have only really started to use inventor in a more significant capacity in my drafting and modeling work, and it is nice to know that Autodesk is open to feedback and has continued to update one of its flagship programs. The idea of a Level of Detail view, in my opinion, will really open up Inventor even more in our industry than it already is. I've found in my modeling process that inventor doesn't quite line up with the way that I learned technical design for theatre, but this new feature will allow us to retain some of our standard drafting practices while also incorporating more advanced parametric techniques. For example, I think we often like to omit certain features in our draftings for the sake of simplicity (which is often really useful for shop carpentry), which the Level of Detail feature would allow us to do. On a different point, I also appreciate that they are including tolerancing on extrusions. Originally, the way I would do this was by specifying a work plate with a tolerance, and then extrude to that plane. It worked, but didn't make intuitive sense. In many ways, Inventor is growing on me, and that's coming from a solidworks kid.
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