Thank you so much, means a lot!

Happy to see that one of the inventor animations, which I created in Autodesk inventor and uploaded in YouTube has got more than 2L clicks. I have never been thought of popularity of its kind. Thank you so much, means a lot!

This was my first attempt to understand what's new in Autodesk inventor 2010 a while back ago.

How to create a line type contains text entities?

This AutoCAD tutorial gives an idea to create a custom line type as shown below.

We can start with the following settings to get this done accurately.
Start with a new drawing, set LTS=1, MSLTSCALE=1, PSLTSCALE=1 as we are going to control line type scale using annotative method.
Create a dedicated text style for ‘line type’ style as shown in below to get an easy control over line type text size latter.

Please be noticed that we can’t set text width as it seems to be pushed back to 1 at final stage, so let it be as the default value and don’t forget to select the annotative option.

This is the right time to decide line type structure. In this case the line type structure consists of lines and a text entity which represents the services eg: Fire, Gas, N2 etc. Here I am choosing the text as FIRE in between the lines. The following image is self explanatory to get an idea about dimensional parameters.



Here we can call the express command MKLTYPE to make line type from the structure which we have prepared. Take a look at the attached image below which indicates the command line steps.



Define the left end point of the line structure as starting point and right end point as ending point. Select both lines and text while asking for select object. The created line type will be loaded automatically and you can select it from the drop down to do a test in the current drawing itself.

If you would like to use this line type in other drawings, you can go on with match property /copy & paste method to load linetype easily.
This is my first post in the Easy 'CADing' category and I hope it helps a lot who all are doing combined piping layout and piping shop drawings. Any comments/criticisms/corrections would be much appreciated.

Scotch Yoke Animation

A scotch yoke animation; created and rendered in Autodesk Inventor. Scotch Yoke is a mechanism for converting the linear motion of a slider into rotational motion or vice-versa. Read More about Sckotch Yoke Mechanism.

Corner Tray

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I was a little bit bored so...

Coil over a Coil

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I am not a shooter

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A spring animation

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Inventor Coil

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Autodesk Inventor Animation

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Colours

Just another time pass...

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Rendered in : AutoCAD 09

CAD Apple

A for Apple : C for CAD

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A Dynamic Zoom to my table

A great way to pass the time : A Dynamic Zoom to my table

Paper clips created in Inventor 11, rendered in AutoCAD 2009.

Here is my question for you : How would you rate the AutoCAD command ZOOM D (Zoom Dynamic) ??

Nut & Bolt

Another 'play' with Stainless Steel material.

Does it look like real flush anchor ?