I hate both the Inventor Drawings and Autocad Layout Tabs, They're Both just horrible. After almost 50 years of this crap you'd think they could make it a little easier to use. I know it sounds stupid, but I prefer to export the line Drawings from Inventor and just finish them in the Model Tab in AutoCAD. I Don't care that I lose the Association with the model. Every time you use the model to drive anything, it changes all the Drawings anyways, so you still lose all of your history either way. People underestimate how much faster and easier using regular 2d cad can be for 99% of what you need Cad for. Everyone always tries to push for 3d. But for anything where you're using 2d templates, which is like 99% of Material Processing. It takes 25 Times as long to lay out the profile of the part, constrain everything and dimension everything, only to convert the fully constrained 2d into a 3d part, which you then need to convert back into 2d for the Drawings and Documentation, which you still can't use most of the time with other 3d party software, so then you still have to export it back into a 2d format again to use for any type of Cutting machinery like Burn Tables, Lasers, Plasma Cutters, etc... It turns 1 easy step into 4 or 5 much slower, harder steps. And in Most Cases, you still end up in 2d CAD when you're finished. I love Inventor and Solid Works, but people always forget just how powerful and efficient plain old 2d AutoCAD is. It's still the better choice for most businesses, even though everyone tries to upsell them and make their lives more difficult. I use both, and they are both amazing tools. All the Real Engineering needs to be done in 3d. Weights, Centers of Gravity, Interferences, FEA, etc... But when it's time to get to work and actually start cutting parts and building something, nothing beats good old 2d AutoCAD.
You better making a tutorial about how to create those templates. It'll be amazing.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I have no plans to create a tutorial about making templates, but thanks for the suggestion.
are u laurenzsides brother??
Nope. I don't know who that is. . . . .
@@ryanweber153 oh ok
I hate both the Inventor Drawings and Autocad Layout Tabs, They're Both just horrible.
After almost 50 years of this crap you'd think they could make it a little easier to use.
I know it sounds stupid, but I prefer to export the line Drawings from Inventor and just finish them in the Model Tab in AutoCAD.
I Don't care that I lose the Association with the model.
Every time you use the model to drive anything, it changes all the Drawings anyways, so you still lose all of your history either way.
People underestimate how much faster and easier using regular 2d cad can be for 99% of what you need Cad for.
Everyone always tries to push for 3d. But for anything where you're using 2d templates, which is like 99% of Material Processing. It takes 25 Times as long to lay out the profile of the part, constrain everything and dimension everything, only to convert the fully constrained 2d into a 3d part, which you then need to convert back into 2d for the Drawings and Documentation, which you still can't use most of the time with other 3d party software, so then you still have to export it back into a 2d format again to use for any type of Cutting machinery like Burn Tables, Lasers, Plasma Cutters, etc...
It turns 1 easy step into 4 or 5 much slower, harder steps. And in Most Cases, you still end up in 2d CAD when you're finished.
I love Inventor and Solid Works, but people always forget just how powerful and efficient plain old 2d AutoCAD is.
It's still the better choice for most businesses, even though everyone tries to upsell them and make their lives more difficult.
I use both, and they are both amazing tools. All the Real Engineering needs to be done in 3d. Weights, Centers of Gravity, Interferences, FEA, etc...
But when it's time to get to work and actually start cutting parts and building something, nothing beats good old 2d AutoCAD.