how to work faster in Inventor, How Do You Do!?

A simple back to basics technique to work a bit faster in Inventor if you can master this.

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[alexandreguitchkine]

Neil again proved, that Inventor is the best !!! Because of you, I chose Inventor as a primary soft for my huge project. I asked myself so many times if my choice was the right one, but... always remember you. I agree- there are plenty of options, but the way you explain things - that's easy and clear. I couldn't find anyone online who could do better then you.
Thank you again. You change professional lives. All the best.

[carlosalvarez]

This is so useful; I remember when I did all this thing about 7 years ago. My advice is to save the modifications you do right after you do it, and save an updated version, so you keep a backup just in case you reinstall or move to another PC/Laptop. Also, you can use the control button plus right click and in some context you'll have an alternate menu that can be customizable as well. For example, I have all the restrictions I use frequently in the ctrl+right click menu in the sketch context, so I can draw and restrict faster, and I don't move to the top menu to look for commands as everything is there. Next step from here, is to do the same with the 3DConnexion radials menus, end results, you'll be like 5 to 20 times faster, and if you use the software daily, it's not hard to memorize where things are.

[rickpalechuk]

Love the drag and use, fast in all environments
Cheers

[philquenzi]

Thank you so much for the tip on how to customize the right click context menu. I have been trying to do that for some time now and some Autodesk person on the Inventor discussion group even told me I could not do that. Since Orbit is my most used command I wanted to get it on the right click context menu and now it is. Thanks again!

[charlesturner]

One of the biggest speed boosts I achieved with Inventor was something as simple as using a mouse with two side buttons, set one to enter and one to escape and it makes almost every single action so much quicker, confirm, cancel as you'd expect, but being able to quickly repeat the last command too.

[ChuckKarl]

I will be adding this heads up to my workflow. Thanks!

[Jessiejeter]

MATE you just changed my life! THANK YOU!

[TooTallToby]

Excellent tips for saving time! Thanks Neil! I love the comment about "exceptionally complacent" - made me lol

[EdvardasStasiunaitis-nirn]

Thank you Greetings from LT. Keep doing your videos

[aries]

Nice. I was always aware of the functionality but never bothered to use it. I think I'll start drilling this workflow.

[aimlessweasel]

I remember when Kevin demoed this at AU and essentially did the first speed modeling I'd ever seen. It was a bookshelf speaker with swept curves and blended fillets (before the nurbs feature IIRC). He explained a bit about the contextual feature and "tracer line", then did the rest silent. It was like being at Benihanas, everyone clapped when the model was finished so quickly.
I could take our leave the marking menu, but I'll never model without a spacemouse again. I was spoiled in my first job when my colleague gave me his because he was too used to his dial box (yes, that was a real thing). The IBM model with eight function keys was like magic (after reducing the roll sensitivity). It took years at my next job to convince my boss to spring for one though. He was still sore about having to scrap all the Autocad digitizers...

[ifoxwell]

Thanks for this tutorial.... but can you tell me how to turn this feature off. I like to right click for a quick menu but I don't like the marking menu stuff being separate at the top it means that everything is in a different position for every option and it drives me mad.

[marcrequardt]

Don't forget, that you can populate the ctrl-rightclick menu, too. Double the awesomeness!
Select ctrl-rightclick under sub-environment in the customise window.
For example in the sketch environment, it would default to your dependencies using ctrl+rightclick

[chuckcantieny]

First Comment! Good one Neil. I work in a high school teaching Inventor. Trying to get a student to understand that you need to be quick if you want to get paid is a struggle. Very difficult to convey any sense of urgency. Just trying to get them to keep one hand near the escape key instead of in their lap... I am going to add this into my workflow, and theirs. I should show them some of the speed modeling videos as well.

[tkaxrud]

I have “Save” on left swipe in all environments. Can’t recommend it enough! Feeling unstoppable, lightning fast -and Inventor can crash all it wants 😂

[craigphillips]

I use SW at home but have Inventor at work that I am lost as I am so used to the right mouse short cut that I have extra short cut to extra short cuts and then have S key also with other short cuts.
Our Drafting guy I don't think knows this or just didn't tell me about how to change them.
Thanks for this video.

[kav]

I definitely should be using these shortcuts more than I do…cheers

[barkbarkatthemoon]

OK, I am going to just ask. I like to draw over pictures at times. Like I am tracing some shape. However on the options>Sketch tab, autoproject is very confusing. Is it possible to turn ALL of these off? I have tried more than once without any luck. as my lines and arcs get crowded, I can no longer click where I want without it snapping off to the side.

[franksmiley]

Thank you for this and other videos. Could you recomend a desktop workstaiton for autodesk product (fusion360)

[cruciferousvegetable]

Marking menu is for sure the way to go. You just force yourself to use it at first it's slower, then you get to be screaming fast. I took the time to customize the marking menu for every environment that exists for what I do. After that, it is the only way to go.