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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1 Introducing Autodesk Inventor
- 2 Creating Sketches
- 3 Working with Sketched Features
- 4 Creating and Editing Placed Features
- 5 Creating and Editing Work Features
- 6 Using Projects to Organize Data
- 7 Managing Assemblies
- 8 Placing, Moving, and Constraining Components
- 9 Creating Assemblies
- 10 Analyzing Assemblies
- 11 Using Design Accelerator
- 12 Setting Up Drawings
- 13 Creating Drawing Views
- 14 Annotating Drawings
- Annotation Tools
- Using Styles to Format Annotations
- Working with Tables
- Creating Dimensions In Drawings
- Controlling Dimension Styles
- Placing Center Marks and Centerlines
- Adding Notes and Leader Text
- Using Hole and Thread Notes
- Working with Title Blocks
- Working with Dimensions and Annotations
- Printing Drawing Sheets
- Plotting Multiple Sheets
- Tips for Annotating Drawings
- 15 Using Content Center
- 16 Autodesk Inventor Utilities
- Index
Using Projects to
Organize Data
In this chapter, you learn how projects help you organize and manage your data. You learn
to plan and set up your projects based on your design needs.
Key Terms
DescriptionTerm
The project that Autodesk
®
Inventor
™
au-
tomatically defaults to when opening,
active project
saving, or editing components. There can
be only one active project in an Autodesk
Inventor session. Can be a project you have
specified or the default installed project.
A blank project installed with Autodesk In-
ventor. In the absence of a defined project,
the default project is active.
default project
Folders where parts, drawings, assemblies,
and presentations you create are stored.
editable locations
In a project, editable locations are the
workspace and workgroup search paths.
Use only one editable location per project.
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