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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
Chapter 3 Working with Sketched Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Parametric Part Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part Modeling Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Base Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Adding Sketched Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Extrude Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Revolve Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sweep Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Loft Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Coil Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Rib and Web Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Modifying Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chapter 4
Creating and Editing Placed Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Adding Placed Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Hole Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Fillet Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chamfer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chamfers and Fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Tips for Working with Fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Thread Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Shell Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Creating Pattern Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Rectangular Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Suppress Pattern Occurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Circular Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Mirror Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Patterns Along Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Suppress Pattern Occurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Analyzing Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Create Zebra Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Create Draft Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Chapter 5
Creating and Editing Work Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Defining Work Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Work Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Work Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Work Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Grounded Work Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Modifying Work Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 6
Using Projects to Organize Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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