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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
Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Autodesk Inventor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Data Files for Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
File Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Application Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Document Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Styles and Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using Shortcut Keys and Command Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Viewing Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Zoom Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Zoom All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Zoom Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Zoom Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Look At . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Shaded, Hidden Edge, and Wireframe Display . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Ground Shadow Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Orthographic and Perspective Camera Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Importing and Exporting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
AutoCAD Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Autodesk Mechanical Desktop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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