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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
Projects manage component locations by specifying such things as:
■ The master location of files (the workgroup), when you work in a design
team.
■ A private workspace specified by each designer, where files are created and
edited.
■ Libraries of standard and custom components.
■ Locations of templates and style libraries.
■ The names of frequently used subfolders, to make file location faster.
In addition to locations, projects also set preferences for other options such
as whether you use unique file names in a project file structure (which can
help locate files more easily), how many versions of a file to keep, and release
information.
Working with the Assembly Browser
The Assembly browser shows the hierarchy of components in the assembly,
as well as their relationships and dependencies. Each occurrence of a
component is represented by a unique name. From the browser, you can select
a component for editing, move components between assembly levels, control
component status, rename components, edit assembly constraints, and manage
representations.
In-Place Activation
You can only edit components or features in the active assembly. Double-click
a subassembly or component occurrence in the browser to activate it, or
right-click the occurrence in the browser, and then select Edit. In the browser,
all components not associated with the active component are shaded.
The following actions can be performed on the first-level children of the active
assembly:
■ Delete a component.
■ Display the degrees of freedom of a component.
■ Designate a component as adaptive.
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