Datasheet

Technical What’s New
Improved Loft Usability
The process for creating lofted features involves
multiple selections to define the section profiles and
guide paths. You can use the dialog box to switch
between selecting the profile sections, rails, and
centerlines, or you can right-click and use the context
menu. Previous releases of Autodesk Inventor did
not have a context menu for the loft command. You
returned to the dialog box each time you changed the
selection type. The function to right-click and use a
context menu to change the selection type is added.
XYZ Axis Indicator Labels
X, Y, and Z labels are added to the ends of the
respective arrows of the XYZ indicator that appears in
3D views, part sketches and drawing sketches.
Auto Save
The new Auto Save function provides a save reminder
after a specified time period if your file needs to be
saved. You are provided with the option to launch a
standard File>Save request and save the document
in which you are working and its dependents.
Alternatively, you can click X to close the bubble
temporarily, and continue the timer, or click “Do not
show this message again” to turn o or turn on the Save
Reminder behavior.
Content Management
Desktop Content
If you are a stand-alone user, you can now store
Content Center libraries on your computer in the
Desktop Content folder. This new option provides
improved performance and eliminates the need to
install Microsoft
®
SQL and IIS on the desktop.
Material Guide
The Material Guide provides a streamlined environment
for adding material information to content. It includes
options for adding materials such as new Families
or new Family members and for adding a material
designator to File Name and Part Number. There is
also an option to remove existing materials that are no
longer needed.
Edit Family Tables in Excel
You can export the family table in Microsoft® Excel®,
edit the data, and then import the data back to the
family table.
Assembly Management
User-defined Assembly Folders
With browser folders, you can organize the browser to
more readily communicate design intent through logical
groupings of parts and drawing resources.
Use folders to organize your assembly browser and
improve workflow. Define folders, based on your chosen
convention, to group browser nodes.
Enhanced Assembly Restructure
Using Autodesk Inventor software, you can place or
create a component in an assembly without worrying
where it will reside in the final assembly structure. You
can restructure an assembly by moving parts, groups
of parts, component patterns, or entire subassemblies
within the browser hierarchy without changing the
physical position of previously placed parts.
Inventor will maintain constraints between components
when the assembly is restructured wherever possible.
User Coordinate Systems
The new user coordinate system,
or UCS, introduces more flexibility
and simplifies many advanced
design workflows. Commands
are provided to create a UCS in
parts, assemblies, and drawings.
Examples of the application of
user coordinate systems include:
•Movingsketcheswithrespectto
reference geometry
•Changingthelocationofthe0,0,0originpoint,XY
plane, and Z axis
The user coordinate system is useful for entering
coordinates, creating 3D objects on 2D workplanes, and
rotating objects in 3D.
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