John Hackney

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  Establishing and editing the origin of ordinate dimensions in AutoCAD

  December 3, 2015 by By John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies Re-defining the User Coordinate System (UCS) of a drawing removes the guesswork from ordinate dimensions.

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  Leveraging the Joints command in Autodesk Inventor

  October 20, 2015 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies Between Two Faces: Joints surpass Constraints in assemblies if you know how to use them.

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  How to re-set AutoCAD, Inventor to “fresh” install configuration

  May 28, 2015 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies If users make a mess of their Autodesk CAD install, this quick tip sets config back to zero.

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  Three ways to create reference geometry during an Inventor sketch

  March 5, 2015 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies IMAGINiT Technologies' John Hackney offers reference geometry creation techniques beyond the "Project Geometry" command in Inventor.

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  Customizing Content Center Fastener names in Inventor

  January 7, 2015 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT They may be technically accurate but fastener names in Autodesk Inventor’s Content Center browser aren’t exactly catchy. Here’s how to change the display name.

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  Controlling rotation in a polar array in Autodesk Inventor

  September 20, 2013 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies How to create circular patterns without the automatic rotation of the feature in Autodesk Inventor.

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  Leveraging “Labels” in Autodesk Vault

  July 26, 2013 by John Hackney, IMAGINiT Technologies Archiving “as shipped” versions of machine design projects using Autodesk Vault labels.

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  Clean-Up Your Local Vault Workspace

  May 31, 2013 by John Hackney Keeping local copies of design files in check in Autodesk Vault.

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