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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
Drag Components into Assemblies
You can place multiple components in an assembly file in a single operation
by dragging them into the graphics window. You can drag components to an
open assembly window from the following locations:
■ From an open folder in Windows Internet Explorer
®
. Use this technique
to quickly populate a new assembly with components.
■ From an open Inventor part file. Drag the top-level icon from the part
browser to the assembly graphics window.
■ From an open Inventor assembly file. Drag parts, subassemblies, or the
top-level assembly from the browser to the assembly graphics window.
You must drop the files over the graphics window where the assembly model
is displayed. A single occurrence of each component is placed in the assembly
file. The dropped components appear at the bottom of the browser in the
receiving assembly.
Simplify Assemblies
In an assembly, you can employ several techniques to make it easier to work
in the graphics window and to removed unneeded components from the
display or memory. Techniques include:
■ Turn visibility on and off
■ Turn enable status on or off
■ Suppress unneeded components
Sometimes a component obscures a component you need to work on. You
can turn its visibility off or turn off visibility for all components you are not
working on to simplify the graphics window.
Enabled components are fully loaded in the assembly and are available for
any operation within the assembly environment. A component that is not
enabled is selectable in the browser, but is not available for operations in the
graphics window. You can in-place edit a component that is not enabled,
which automatically switches the component to Enabled. Components that
are not enabled consume fewer computer resources than enabled components,
giving better performance in large assemblies.
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