People with a passion for discovery drive innovation. Without their inquisitive minds and desire for new ideas, there would be no inventive spirit and no progress. The European Inventor Award pays tribute to inventors worldwide. It celebrates those who transform their ideas into technological progress, economic growth or improvements to our daily lives. Launched in 2006, the Award gives inventors the recognition they deserve and, like any good competition, it acts as an incentive for others.
Aimed at innovators aged 30 and under, this prize rewards those using technology to contribute to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. A granted patent is not required, and all finalists receive a cash prize.
Now that we have announced the finalists, the Popular Prize contest begins. This unique prize is decided by online public vote, so learn more about the finalists via their web profiles and then vote for your favourite inventor.
Good Day ! I am using Inventor 2018. I want to know the difference between inventor drawing extension idw and dwg. When I do "save as" I come up with 2 options within inventor drawing one is .idw and another is .dwg and there is also option of AutoCAD dwg. How do these extension differ and whats their functionality ? I know idw for inventor and dwg for AutoCAD but inventor drawing with dwg extension is confusing.
Off late, I have to download many commercial items from web to represent in AutoCAD drawings. But download are in step files. So I make inventor model and create dummy drawing and import to autoCAD. Is the inventor dwg doing same thing in fewer steps ? see the screenshot attached.
Thanks for the links. Will read through. just started a little bit where it says dwg is bigger in file size as it has functionalities. and can be shared across others as most ppl don't or may not have inventor. Will go through all.
One issue with saving them as dwgs is when you open them through file explorer they'll open in Autocad instead of Inventor natively. The only real reason I can think of is to have the ability of other users who have Autocad and not Inventor to view and edit the files, but this causes other issues down the line since opening and editing an Inventor drawing in Autocad and going back to Inventor can break some stuff. I recommend using idws and only editing the drawings in Inventor and if someone wants to view them they should either get Inventor View (Inventor Read-Only in 2020 version) or export your drawings as pdfs.
Hi! It is not true saving a drawing to Inventor dwg will lead to opening in AutoCAD by default. It depends on your default DWG file open setting. You should set it to Autodesk DWG Launcher, instead of AutoCAD. If it is set to Autodesk DWG Launcher, the Windows will open the dwg file based on last saved application (either Inventor or AutoCAD).
Like Xun and other experts already mentioned, this is not a new topic. In fact, it has been discussed for almost 10 years. Inventor dwg and idw are the same in terms of Inventor drawing objects. Saving as Inventor dwg allows you to open it in AutoCAD without having to go through export. Also, you can easily use an AutoCAD dwg template containing existing AutoCAD blocks and styles you already created.
Another option to consider is to use AutoCAD to document Inventor components. AutoCAD is capable of creating associative drawing views to Inventor components. The command is called VIEWBASE. You can find more information on Autodesk Knowledge Network.
I am in same boat as you. Came across this recently. Maybe I never needed to, so never saw that even though it existed. The need for query was to reduce amount of steps to convert inventor model to AutoCAD.
Thanks for your help. It helped me in understanding the need to use both extension. Will use it accordingly. Haven't come across this option as never needed to. So use dwg only if you have to share with non inventor recipient. File size can be larger for dwg. One last thing to ask is, if I create new drawing in dwg and use viewbase to get model, how do I project view off that ? If the viewbase is not what I want to use, can I rotate using viewcube like inventor idw ? Also, can I lock a view in inventor model as base view so when I use viewbase command, I can choose that particular view ?
Well if that's all you need, just save as -> save copy as -> .dxf extension. DXF's are the bees knees when it comes to exporting inventor drawings to AutoCAD, I find it to be the least troublesome method.
Hi! I am not sure if we have studied the impact of RAM frequency on Inventor performance. I would assume the faster the better. But, the exact correlation is unclear. Your hardware is very impressive. Unless you are working on assemblies with 100K components or complex parts, you should not encounter any performance issue (if there is, it could be a bug and we need to look into it).
Hi! I personally would discourage you overclock your CPU. Inventor as an application is partially multi-threaded (graphics, feature compute, import/export, constraint solve, and so on). If you overclock your CPU, you may interfere with the multi-threaded operations and you may encounter instability. I am not sure how much performance gain you will get by doing so.
Please note that Inventor is a CAD software, not a game software. It does not directly interact with hardware. For the most part, Windows dictates how Inventor uses hardware resource. Faster CPU and more RAM certainly help but the application performance is not necessarily directly correlated with the hardware.
I wonder if underclocking your ram and running the Inventor benchmark would be a reasonable test? I have never under/over clocked ram so am not sure if it would be a reasonable experiment or not.
Hi, @Anonymous 2400MHz is considered slow compared to RAM available today which is available at 3600+MHz and even 3000MHz doesn't have much of a price premium compared to 2400MHz. I run my RAM at 2400MHz as I'm on a 7800x which only supports 2400MHz and my PC handles Inventor fine on reasonable large assemblies.
Thank you very much @leowarren34 for your reply. I did some testing on my personal PC to see how much does RAM speed actually effects Inventor and it does. Then I saw this post. I posted my potential build and also the outcomes of the test I just did, and also I shared our engineer's expectations from this build and my budget. I would be really grateful if you could check my post there too.
Without flogging a dead horse the results are either within a margin of error or anomalous - RAM speed can a make a difference but the difference is super subtle unless you're transferring files back and forth between the RAM and storage to which storage becomes the next bottleneck.
Last year I did a study to see if RAM frequency affects inventor performance using Inventor Bench, and the answer is yes - but the effect is minimal. Fortunately I saved my screenshots . . . see below.
The ram provided with our machines came with built in XMP profiles, but did not come enabled. Stock frequency: 2133 MHz, XMP profile: 2800 MHz. So I enabled them just to see if it made a difference. Just to add my 2 cents to @dgorsman I definitely agree with about being smart with managing your data. (just ask about our 200,000 part assembly . . . The work I put into optimizing it was well worth the time it has saved since.)
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an idea is unique enough either as a stand-alone invention or as a significant improvement over the work of others, it can be patented. A patent, if granted, gives the inventor a proprietary interest in the patent over a specific period of time, which can be licensed for financial gain.
An inventor creates or discovers an invention. The word inventor comes from the Latin verb invenire, invent-, to find.[1][2] Although inventing is closely associated with science and engineering, inventors are not necessarily engineers or scientists.[3] Due to advances in artificial intelligence, the term "inventor" no longer exclusively applies to an occupation (see human computers).[4]
Some inventions can be patented. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful. A patent legally protects the intellectual property rights of the inventor and legally recognizes that a claimed invention is actually an invention. The rules and requirements for patenting an invention vary by country and the process of obtaining a patent is often expensive.
Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviours adopted by people and passed on to others.[5] The Institute for Social Inventions collected many such ideas in magazines and books.[6] Invention is also an important component of artistic and design creativity. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge, experience or capability.
Sociopolitical inventions comprise new laws, institutions, and procedures that change modes of social behavior and establish new forms of human interaction and organization. Examples include the British Parliament, the US Constitution, the Manchester (UK) General Union of Trades, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the Olympic Games, the United Nations, the European Union, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as movements such as socialism, Zionism, suffragism, feminism, and animal-rights veganism.
Humanistic inventions encompass culture in its entirety and are as transformative and important as any in the sciences, although people tend to take them for granted. In the domain of linguistics, for example, many alphabets have been inventions, as are all neologisms (Shakespeare invented about 1,700 words). Literary inventions include the epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel, the sonnet, the Renaissance, neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Socialist Realism, Surrealism, postmodernism, and (according to Freud) psychoanalysis. Among the inventions of artists and musicians are oil painting, printmaking, photography, cinema, musical tonality, atonality, jazz, rock, opera, and the symphony orchestra. Philosophers have invented logic (several times), dialectics, idealism, materialism, utopia, anarchism, semiotics, phenomenology, behaviorism, positivism, pragmatism, and deconstruction. Religious thinkers are responsible for such inventions as monotheism, pantheism, Methodism, Mormonism, iconoclasm, puritanism, deism, secularism, ecumenism, and the Bahʼ Faith. Some of these disciplines, genres, and trends may seem to have existed eternally or to have emerged spontaneously of their own accord, but most of them have had inventors.[7]
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