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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
5 The sleeve is now constrained to move only along the axis of the spider.
Click View ➤ Degrees of Freedom to hide the DOF symbols.
6 Use the Rotate and Zoom tools to orient your view of the assembly as
shown in the following figure.
7 Slowly drag the NewLiftRing.ipt. All components with constraints that are
linked to the dragged component move in response, while honoring their
own assembly constraints.
Close the file without saving or save the file with a new name to preserve
the original data file.
Selecting Components
When working in an assembly, you often need to select a set of components
for a common operation, such as turning off visibility or verifying which
components are underconstrained. You may need to select components by
size, location, relation to other components, or other criteria.
You can select components using one of several methods, and then apply one
of several options, such as invert the selected order or revert to the previous
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