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Experience your design before it’s built. Autodesk Inventor™ software provides a comprehensive set of design tools for producing, validating, and documenting complete digital prototypes—helping manufacturers get to market faster with fewer physical prototypes and more innovative products. ® Contents Dynamic Simulation................................... 4 Stress Analysis . ........................................... 6 Tube and Pipe Design ................................ 8 Cable and Harness Design . ......
Specialized Tools for Your Design Needs The Autodesk Inventor product line provides a comprehensive and integrated set of design tools for producing and documenting complete digital prototypes that validate the form, fit, and function of a design.
Dynamic Simulation With Inventor Professional, designers can use Dynamic Simulation to predict how a product will work under realworld conditions, without having to build costly, timeconsuming physical prototypes or waiting for results from expensive consultants. Simply add the driving loads, friction characteristics, and dynamic components. Then, run the simulation to validate the design.
Constraint Translation Quickly and easily set up dynamic simulations to represent the operating conditions of the design. The constraint reduction engine analyzes assembly constraints to identify the relevant rigid bodies and generate the correct motion joints for simulation. Users can also apply standard geometric constraints using the included library of motion joints. Then add springs and dampers to define the coefficient of friction that applies to each joint.
Stress Analysis The stress analysis functionality in Inventor Professional helps users understand how parts perform under load, so they know their designs have sufficient strength to perform without failure. The stress analysis tools are fully integrated with the dynamic simulation tools, enabling users to perform stress analysis with accurate load conditions that are calculated directly from the dynamic behavior of the design.
Model Simplification Reduce the time required to generate results from stress analysis by simplifying part geometry to suppress features during finite element analysis. Export Analysis Data to ANSYS Perform advanced studies without unnecessary and costly data translation. Inventor analysis definitions can be exported to ANSYS for use with additional validation tools. Share Validation Results Quickly and easily add analysis results to reports by exporting to an AVI or graphics file.
Tube and Pipe Design Inventor Professional enables users to reduce the time required to design tubing, piping, and flexible hose. The rules-based routing tools in Inventor Professional select the appropriate fittings and help enable pipe runs to comply with design rules for minimum and maximum length, roundoff increments, and bend radius. Functional Route Design Simplify the design of pipe runs—or spools—to fit in complex assemblies or tight spaces.
Rigid Tube Routing Quickly create rigid tubes with superior control over the shape, bend angles, and radii. Create rigid tubes with an arbitrary number of bends and variable custom bend angles and radii. The radius and rotation handles offer greater control over the shape of rigid tubes. Tube and Pipe Styles Increase the quality and manufacturability of designs by helping to ensure that tube and pipe runs automatically adhere to preset design standards.
Cable and Harness Design Inventor Professional streamlines cable and harness design by using wire list information imported from schematic design packages, including AutoCAD Electrical software. ® Complex electrical systems are present in almost every product or machine, and require increasingly careful design of the physical cables and harnesses.
Ribbon Cables Reduce errors in the design of electronic equipment by incorporating ribbon cables in the 3d digital prototype. Add ribbon cables between connectors with full control over the locations of twists and folds. Harness Validation Improve cable quality and manufacturability, and prevent costly recalls and product failures by adhering to design standards.
AutoCAD Integration Inventor makes it easy for users of AutoCAD software to realize the benefits of Digital Prototyping by leveraging investments in AutoCAD expertise and DWG™ design data. ® Inventor delivers the industry’s leading integration of 2d and 3d design, providing direct read and write of native DWG files, while maintaining full associativity to the 3d model—without the need for data-compromising translators. With Inventor, reuse valuable data with rapid access to existing 2d information.
DWG Save Integrate DWG technology into the 3d design workflow to take advantage of existing skills; easily combine part, assembly, and schematic drawings data; and streamline communication with suppliers and partners who rely on DWG technology. This feature stores Inventor drawing views in the DWG file to provide view, plot, and measure capabilities in AutoCAD with complete visual fidelity, while preserving fully associative drawing updates.
Part Design Inventor software helps designers reach the next level of efficiency by making it easier to reuse design data, convey design intent, and work with fully associative models to make sure any changes to the part design are reflected in the assembly model and drawing files. Improve productivity by automating repetitive design workflows for frequently used custom features and parts.
Advanced Shape Description Create a wide range of complex geometries by easily combining solids and surfaces. Inventor gives users precise control of shape characteristics, such as tangency and continuity. Advanced modeling tools include Loft to a Point, N-Sided Patch, Sweep Normal to Surface, Area Loft, Centerline Loft, G2 Continuous Fillets, Full Round Fillets, and Face-to-Face Fillets.
Sheet Metal Part Design Autodesk Inventor helps users simplify the design of complex sheet metal parts. Inventor improves productivity during the design of sheet metal parts by providing a digital prototype that combines manufacturing information (such as punch tool parameters and custom bend tables) with an accurate 3d model of sheet metal folding and a flat pattern editing environment where manufacturing engineers can tweak flat patterns to optimize manufacturing costs.
Flat Pattern Features Generate optimized flat patterns to eliminate unnecessary manufacturing costs. Unfold sheet metal models to create flat patterns with associative flat-pattern editing to support cleanup operations such as modifying corner reliefs to match specific capabilities available on the shop floor. Punch Libraries Users can define their own sheet metal punch libraries to standardize punch usage and reduce computer numerical control (CNC) tooling costs.
Assembly Design Inventor combines Design Accelerators with easy-to-use assembly tools so users can be sure that every part and component in an assembly design fits correctly. Accurately validate interference and mass properties to produce high-quality products the first time around. Inventor provides the tools to control and manage the data created by large assembly designs so users can work on just the components required to complete a particular part of the design.
Interference Analysis and Contact Detection Eliminate costly errors and improve manufacturability by testing assembly function within Inventor. Check for both static interference between parts with graphic highlighting of overlapping material, and then test for potential collisions between moving parts by driving assembly constraints or dragging components until they collide. Large Assembly Management Realize the benefits of 3d design when developing very large assemblies.
Frame Generator Quickly design and develop welded frames for industrial machinery applications. The Frame Generator builds up structural frames by dropping predefined steel shapes onto wireframe or solid skeletal frames and simplifies creation of end conditions with predefined options for mitered, notched, and straight butt welded joints. It includes profile authoring so users can add custom profiles to the existing library of standard profiles.
Design and Manufacturing Documentation Autodesk Inventor includes comprehensive tools to generate engineering and manufacturing documentation from the digital prototype. These tools can help users reduce errors and deliver designs in less time. Inventor takes the production of manufacturing documentation to the next level of productivity through automatic generation of drawing views and tools for finishing drawings.
Automatic Drawing Updates Reduce errors and the need for manual checking through automatic drawing update. Inventor associates drawing views to the original components so any change made to a part or an assembly is automatically reflected in the drawing. Inventor also supports global updates of drawing resources, such as title blocks, borders, and sketched symbols.
Data Management and Communication Inventor enables the efficient and secure exchange of design data to support collaboration between different engineering contributors, including industrial design, product design, and manufacturing. This capability allows design workgroups to manage and track all the design components of a digital prototype, helping designers reuse crucial design data, manage BOMS, and promote earlier collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients.
Data Management and Communication DWF Publishing Improve product quality, decrease time to market, and reduce scrap and rework costs by using DWF™ technology to streamline communication with suppliers, purchasing, and other supply chain partners. Publish the information required by manufacturing partners, including assembly animations and detailed step-by-step assembly instructions, 2d drawings, and 3d models with BOM information.
AEC Exchange The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) Exchange tool creates and publishes simplified 3d representations, intelligent connection points, and additional information in native file formats for AutoCAD® MEP software. Users can also export 3d geometry to AutoCAD® Architecture, Revit®-based software, and AutoCAD software. STEP/IGES Simplify accurate collaboration with suppliers and customers by enabling sharing and reuse of design data with 3d CAD/CAM systems.
Customization and Automation Inventor helps users make the most of their investment in 3d by using the Inventor API (application programming interface) to streamline frequently used procedures and automate specialized workflows that support design standards and engineering processes. Increase speed and productivity with configurable styles so drawings conform to standards, and publish custom components in the Content Center to make sure that designers use appropriate components in their designs.
Learning Resources Inventor offers a range of learning and reference resources to help users maintain skills and quickly make the most of the 3d design environment. With Inventor, users can learn new skills, look up information about procedures and tools, and get the latest tips and tricks needed to stay productive. Advanced Help System Speed the transition to 3d with contextual help.
Learn More Learn about the different Inventor products available to fit your specific design needs, and discover why Inventor products are the best choice for manufacturing companies. For more information, visit www.autodesk.com/inventor.
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