Push in the Clutch!

These were the words I remember my mother saying countless times as I was learning how to drive a car with a manual transimission.  As hard as I could, I tried to remember the steps it took to get from 1st up to 5th gear and backdown.  Then how to start from a complete stop.  The worst by far was starting from a complete stop on an incline with someone right on your rear bumper.  What does this have to do with Autodesk Inventor and you?  Frustration.

Yes, frustration.  Power Users get them from time to time, so New Users, you will see them too.  If its as difficult as linking parameters to drive custom configurations to deciding what to Copy and what to Reuse in Vault Copy Design.  Things happen daily that lead us to frustion with Inventor and what I have learned is that with the proper training and then applying the learned knowledge, we can minimize these times.

My name is Thomas Fitzgerald, but you can call me Tom.  I am an Application Engineer at MasterGraphics specializing in the manufacturing products Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Productstream.  This is my very first, hopefully of many, blogs.  I consider this my attempt at working at my writing skills.  Some of you may like what I have to say and others may not but I assure you it will always be of the utmost quality. 

Just as I eventually learned how to drive that manual transmission and consider myself a darned well driver, you too will become a good if not a great user of Inventor.  I encourage you to take the classes MasterGraphics offers to learn what is making everyone else a successful engineering department.  We take what Autodesk has to say in addition to what other companies just like you are doing with the applications.  We host User Group Meetings which allow you to ask the questions and get real answers from other users in your community.  Together with the resources we provide and your personal time behind the application, you shall succeed.

More to come…