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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
Managing Assemblies
This chapter introduces assembly modeling. You will learn about the assembly environment,
assembly browser and working in the assembly environment.
Assembly Environment
In Autodesk
®
Inventor
™
, you place components that act as a single functional
unit into an assembly document. Constraints define the relative position these
components occupy with respect to each other.
When you create or open an assembly file (.iam), you are in the assembly
environment. Assembly tools manipulate whole subassemblies and assemblies.
You can group parts that function together as a single unit and then insert the
subassembly into another assembly.
When you open a part file (.ipt), you are in the part environment. Part tools
manipulate sketches and features, which combine to make parts. You insert
parts into assemblies and constrain them in positions they will occupy when
the assembly is manufactured.
You can insert parts into an assembly or use sketch and part tools to create parts
in the context of an assembly. When you do this, all other components in the
assembly are visible.
To complete a model, you can create assembly features that affect multiple
components, such as holes that pass through multiple parts. Assembly features
often describe specific manufacturing processes such as post-machining.
The assembly browser is a convenient way to activate components you want to
edit, edit sketches, features, and constraints, turn component visibility on and
off, and other tasks.
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