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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
Consumer Environment
Use the Content Center Consumer environment to use library parts in the
design process. The following commands are available:
Opens a family .ipt file.Open from Content
Center
Places a feature or a part into an open assembly file.Place from Content
Center
Places a feature into an open part file.Place Feature from
Content Center
Changes the size of a part placed in an assembly.Change size
Replaces an existing part in the assembly with a part
from the Content Center library.
Replace from Content
Center
TRY IT: Navigate in the Content Center library and place a part
1 To begin, open an assembly file.
2 Click Place from Content Center on the Assembly panel. The Place from
Content Center dialog box is displayed.
3 To select the viewing mode, click the Thumbnails View, List View, or
Detailed View tool button.
NOTE The List View mode is faster, but the Thumbnails View mode is more
descriptive.
4 In the panel on the right, browse in the library until you get to the
appropriate part family:
Double-click a category to display its descendant categories or part
families.
Click Back to return to the previously displayed list.
Click Forward to display the forward list.
Click Up one Category button to get up one level in the category structure.
5 Select the family and click OK.
6 Select the family member to place in the Select or Table View tab of the
Family dialog box.
7 Click OK in the Family dialog box.
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