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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
The first component placed in an assembly is automatically grounded (all
degrees of freedom are removed). Its origin and coordinate axes are aligned
with the origin and coordinate axes of the assembly. It is a good practice to
place assembly components in the order in which they would be assembled
in manufacturing.
Click in the graphics window to place additional ungrounded occurrences of
the first component in the assembly. To finish placing the first component,
right-click, and then select Done.
To place subsequent components from external files, continue to click in the
graphics window to place additional occurrences, and then right-click and
select Done.
Use the Create In-Place Component tool to create a component in the assembly
context. The created component is nested under the active main assembly or
subassembly in the browser. If a sketch profile for the in-place component
uses projected loops from other components within the assembly, then that
sketch profile is associatively tied to the projecting components.
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