Sovelia Toolkit

In this article find out how to install the Sovelia Toolkit for Autodesk Inventor. Follow these simple steps to install and activate the software on your machine. Ensure you have a compatible release of Inventor on your machine. The toolkit is...

Overview View representations (view reps) can be seen as saved filters  in an Inventor assembly. They allow the saving of different visibilities of components - for example, making all steel parts to be visible, and all plastic parts invisibl...

Background There are many standard methods to export a DXF file of sheet metal parts from Inventor, either from the sheet metal flat pattern, the drawing of the flat pattern, or even by right clicking on a face in a sheet metal part. However, there...

Background The Set Properties tool allows CAD managers and administrators to enforce compliance for file properties in Inventor. While there are other ways of quickly entering iProperties in Inventor, such as iLogic forms, this tool provides a more...

Background The Export BOM tool provides often-requested functionality for exporting the Bill of Materials (BOM) of an Inventor assembly to Excel format. You can include images (thumbnails) with each item, export to a template of your choice, and au...

Background This tool allows quick placement of iCopy components into assemblies – it is an enhanced version of the standard Inventor iCopy tool. While the standard Inventor iCopy tool is very powerful - allowing ‘stretchable’ assemblies to be plac...

Background The MidMate tool is targeted at users who model on nominal but include clearance margins in their designs (i.e. metalwork fabricators). These small margins make constraining components more labour intensive as the small gaps need to be p...

Background Often when placing multiple components, the same set of constraints will be required to position the components. This tool allows the user to select a component to copy, and then constrain into position in a single operation. This allow...

Overview This tool creates and updates work points in an Inventor part file, based on data in the specified Excel spreadsheet. Note there are standard Inventor tools that allow the creation of points from Excel in a 2D or 3D sketch (see image below...

Background iLogic can be used as a powerful configuration tool with minimal knowledge of Programming and Inventor specific commands. The next step in this process, copying some component files and referencing others in a similarly automated way req...

Background The intersection tool is primarily designed for use with the iCopy and iCopy Multiple command. It allows a grid of 3Dsketch lines and Workpoints to be created quickly and accurately. Operation Start with your curved surface. ...

Background The tool is designed to make creating images of your designs quicker and easier while offering slightly more control that is available with the stock interface. Operation Find the tool in the menu, when clicked this will load the snap...

Background This tool provides a simple way to copy a model file and a drawing file in one operation. This can replace the traditional method of ‘save-as’ on the model file, ‘save-as’ on the drawing file, and then pointing the drawing to the new mod...