Autodesk Thread Spreadsheet Top Tip

Mike Watkins — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:10:09 +0000

As most of you probably know Autodesk Inventor uses a spreadsheet to drive it’s threads in the model. And as we all love from time to time Autodesk (might!) change the format or add new threads to this spreadsheet. So if you have added any non standard sizes to the old spreadsheet, but you want to use the new spreadsheet with all the new threads contained in the thread.xls then this becomes messy.

Our tip is to change the colour of the newly entered line in your existing thread.xls to Green then it will be easily visible to see all the additions you have made to the old thread.xls, and thus making it easier to copy them to the new format.

Autodesk thread.xls

Hope this helps.

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Inventor 2010 SP1 fixed

Mike Watkins — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:55:56 +0000

There was a small issue with the original service pack, the problem was that the Live Update and Communications Centre did not recognise the fact that Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 had been installed. Therefore it continued to notify of an available update.

Autodesk have since released a newly compiled version of the Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1, which does not contain the problem described above, this can be downloaded from the link below

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9242019

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Autodesk Thread Spreadsheet Top Tip

Inventor 2010 SP1 fixed