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Make Part and Make Components
Create your layout and investigate your design. When
you are satisfied with the design state, use the Make
Part or Make Components workflow to derive sketch
block instances into part or assembly file component
instances. The component instances remain associated
with the block instances and layout, so changes you
make to the block definitions or layout are reflected in
the part and assembly files.
The Make Components command translates sketch
constraints between blocks to assembly constraints
so all of the assembly kinematics can be created and
maintained associatively from the layout. In addition
the Make Part command can be used with the new solid
bodies to quickly produce multiple parts from a single
multibody part and assemble them in an assembly.
Integrated Static and Modal Analysis
Easy-to-use integrated finite element analysis makes it
possible to analyze your design without translating the
CAD model or moving the data to another product. You
can perform both static and modal analysis to examine
deformation, and maximum and minimum stresses,
enabling you to design higher-quality parts and ensure
your design meets required safety factors.
Create parametric studies, using the Parametric table,
to identify design constraints and parameter ranges.
Then use the parameter table controls to visualize the
eects of parameter changes on your design.
Unified FEA Environment for Parts and Assemblies
A single stress analysis environment provides you with
control over:
•Materialselection—
change materials, up-
date the simulation,
and see the results.
•ConstraintandLoad
denition—specify
the boundary condi-
tions for your analy-
sis.
•Contactconditions—
use automatic
contacts and manual
contacts to define the
component relationships.
•Meshdenition—globalandlocalmeshcontrols
provide optimum refinement for analysis conditions.
•Representations—usedesignandlevelofdetail
representations to simplify the model. Use positional
representations to analyze the model in a specific
position.
•Componentvisibilityandexclusion—usethese
options to further simplify the model by removing
components from being analyzed.
Optimization
Assembly optimization automatically seeks the
parameter values that meet the specified design
criteria.
You can promote the parameter values, resulting from
the studies or optimization, back into the Inventor
assembly model to update the part/assembly with
parameters selected during during the simulation
studies.
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