2009
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
and libraries for the session. When you work on a different design project,
you must make its project active before you can create or edit data files.
TRY IT: Make a project active
1 Verify that all Inventor files are closed.
2 Click File ➤ Projects, or on the Microsoft
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Windows
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Start menu, click
Programs ➤ Inventor (release number) ➤ Tools ➤ Project Editor.
3 On the Projects dialog box, top pane, the existing projects are listed.
Double-click a project to make it the active project. A check mark indicates
the active project.
The lower pane of the Projects dialog box shows information about the
selected project in the top pane.
How Referenced Files are Found
When Autodesk Inventor searches for a file, it looks in the locations defined
by the active project for the stored file name and relative path.
File references are stored according to the following rules:
■ File references are stored as a relative path from the project root folder. If
the file is in a library, the library name is also stored.
■ If the referenced file is not in a project root folder, but the file is stored in
the same folder or a subfolder of the file that references it, the reference is
stored as a relative path.
To avoid file resolution problems, projects always use relative paths rather
than absolute paths. This allows the project or its root locations to be easily
moved or copied without breaking or needing to update references.
Always save new files in the workspace defined for the active project or one
of its subfolders.
Except for library files, a file can be moved to a different non library location
specified in the project, as long as the relative path is maintained.
Library locations contain library components that are referenced by another
file, but not edited. Inventor searches for a library reference in the library
location named in the project.
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