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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
When setting the workspace path:
■ Specify only one location in a workspace, preferably at the root location
containing the project file or in a subfolder of the project file. The
recommended location is .\.
In a single user project, the workspace should be the only location in your
project, except for library locations.
■ For best results, use Autodesk Vault to check out rather than manually
copy files. Check out automatically sets the correct relative path so that
Autodesk Inventor can resolve your file. If you manually copy, the file is
not marked as checked out and the risk of overwriting edits is increased.
■ Workspace is the first location searched for non library references.
Workflow overview: Set the workspace search path
1 On the Project Editor dialog box, click the Expand button to show the
Workspace path.
2 If no workspace is defined, right-click Workspace, and then click Add
Path or expand the existing workspace and click Edit.
3 Accept the path shown, edit the path, or browse to and select a workspace
folder.
4 Click Save.
Library Locations
A library is a storage location for read-only parts or other files that will not be
edited. You specify one or more library locations when you create a project.
Libraries can be used in multiple projects.
NOTE When naming libraries, remember that files using a library part store the
library name and relative path from the library folder. If you later need to rename
the library, all the library references will be broken.
Libraries can be created implicitly (when linking to a Mechanical Desktop
part) or explicitly (you create the search path in the project).
Keep in mind:
■ The location of the Content Center library is defined in the Project Editor
Folder Options.
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