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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
want to animate. To return components to their original positions, unsuppress
any suppressed constraints.
iMates
An iMate is a constraint that is saved with a component to tell it how to
connect with other components in an assembly. When you insert a component
with an iMate, it snaps into place with another component with a matching
iMate. The component can be replaced by another component while preserving
these intelligent iMate constraints. Components with iMates speed accurate
placement and replacement of components in assemblies.
Autodesk Inventor can infer iMates based on a special algorithm that places
the constraint in a location likely to be the most useful. For example, you can
infer iMates on a closed-loop circular edge for extruded, revolved, and hole
features.
An iMate is usually an insert or mate constraint, but can be any constraint
type that is useful for quickly positioning components. You may want to
consider which other components may be substituted for the present
component and which constraint strategy is most useful for an iMate.
A composite iMate is a collection of individual iMates into a single entity.
Parts drawn from standard libraries snap together quickly with composite
iMates. Visual and audio cues are provided to assist in the placement of
components with iMates.
Viewing Constraints
The assembly browser provides two schemes for showing assembly constraints.
You select Position View or Assembly View on the assembly browser toolbar
to switch between the two schemes.
Shows each constraint under component occurrences
in the browser. Constraints are listed under both con-
strained components.
Modeling View
Shows all assembly constraints collected into a folder
labeled Constraints, located immediately below the
Assembly View
top-level assembly. Each constraint is listed only once,
in the order of placement.
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