Ideate Portland Office Moves to New Space
Ideate, Inc. more than doubled its office size in Portland, Oregon, remaining in its convenient downtown location while moving up four stories in the Fox Tower to the 22nd floor. The expansion includes two full training labs to meet the increasing training needs of our clients. Please stop by any time to meet our staff and see our new space.

Ideate, Inc
805 SW Broadway, Suite 2280
Portland, OR 97205

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Implementing an Integrated 3D System for Design and Manufacturing
Implementing a 3D workflow not only benefits machine programmers, it also offers substantial productivity improvements throughout the entire workflow process from pre-quote to out-the-door.

http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Issue/Article/False/77319/Issue

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Driving Custom Types with Custom Properties
One of the most powerful features in Productstream is the ability to assign an item “type”. A type allows you to set a flag on an item that helps control its intent for use, and in turn the properties that are associated to it.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/Driving_Custom_Types_With_Custom_1/

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Taking Advantage of Open Profiles in Inventor
Inventor supports the use of open profiles which can often result in faster creation of features as well as survive large topology changes that would often require clean-up with closed profiles.  Take a look at the following image and notice we are using a rectangular base extrusion with a shell and a step inside. We also have a sketch that we want to use to add an additional extrusion although the lines don’t terminate at the base extrusion walls.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/Taking_Advantage_Open_Profiles/

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