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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
When you export Autodesk Inventor drawings to AutoCAD, the converter
creates an editable AutoCAD drawing and places all data in paper space or
model space in the DWG file. If the Autodesk Inventor drawing has multiple
sheets, each is saved as a separate DWG file. The exported entities become
AutoCAD entities, including dimensions.
You can open a .dwg file and then copy selected AutoCAD data to the clipboard
and paste into a part, assembly, or drawing sketch. The data is imported at
the cursor position.
Autodesk Mechanical Desktop Files
Autodesk Inventor can translate Autodesk Mechanical Desktop parts and
assemblies so the design intent is preserved. You can import a Mechanical
Desktop file as either an ASM body or a full conversion when Mechanical
Desktop is installed and running on your system. Using the DWG/DXF File
Import Wizard, you can import Mechanical Desktop data, including parts,
assemblies, and drawings. The data is associative to Autodesk Inventor drawing
views and annotations.
Features that are supported in Autodesk Inventor are converted. Unsupported
features t are not translated. If Autodesk Inventor cannot translate a feature
it skips that feature, places a note in the browser, and then completes the
translation.
Files from Other Applications
You can open and change models created in Pro/ENGINEER, Parasolid,
SolidWorks, and UGS NX. Autodesk Inventor translates assembly and part
files, solids, multi-solids, surfaces, and more. After the import operation is
complete, you can change the model as if it was originally created in Autodesk
Inventor.
After changing a file, you can continue to use it as an Autodesk Inventor file
or export it to other file formats, including Pro/ENGINEER and Parasolid.
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