With the introduction of “Shape Generator”, what Autodesk is calling “Generative Design”, will enable users to design products using minimal material and optimize a design based on a set of input parameters.Ī term you may be more familiar with is “Topology Optimization” – That’s right, simulation and analysis packages offer this function, but what’s different here is that it’s implemented directly into Inventor. Hope this helps.The 2016 R2 Release of Inventor is bound to change the way you think about CAD tools. Keep in mind I believe it keeps as a default when you change that and you may have to go back and return it to whatever units you normally save in. stl file single select the file you want to open so it is highlighted and down at the bottom there is an Options button, click that and it opens a window, under Units there is an Import Units button, switch that to mm or in depending on how your file was saved out originally. Evan, What I did is when you go to open your. stl was open, I click on the part, then right click, select Convert to Base Feature, I selected output to solid, OK and it was done and worked correctly.Įvan, What I did is when you go to open your.

stl came in fine and matched what the customer had. So it sees the 12 as the value and the import doesn't know or care what it is but as soon as I changed my import option to mm the. The customer exported in mm and I imported in inch. I opened a customer model and it looked correct until I made a measurement and it was 12' the real measurement was 0.473 or 12mm. stl file (inch or mm) when opening the file and change it in your options to match before opening it to keep it at the correct values. Make sure you know what your units are of the. This next comment doesn't really have anything to do with how the Mesh Enabler works other than how you import then use the Enabler: Seems to work fine now after Rocky fixed it up.

Mesh enabler for autocad inventor 2016