2009
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
For example, when you dimension an edge to a vertex, the dimension
automatically aligns itself with the edge.
Diametric Dimensions
In the design process of creating a revolved part, you can add a centerline as
the axis of rotation. If this centerline is used in a sketch dimension, it is placed
as a diametric dimension by default.
Driven Dimensions
You can place driven dimensions with Autodesk Inventor, and you can change
the dimension type of an existing dimension to driven. A driven dimension
reflects the size of the geometry, but you cannot edit the dimension value.
Use driven dimensions to display dimension values for reference purposes
only.
Workflow overview: Apply a driven dimension
■ For an existing dimension, select the dimension, and then select the Driven
dimension button from the standard toolbar.
■ To create driven dimensions on the fly, while the General Dimension tool
is active, select the Driven dimension button from the standard toolbar.
Driven dimensions are displayed in parentheses.
You can also create driven dimensions automatically on constrained sketch
objects. When you try to place a dimension on a constrained sketch object,
a dialog box is displayed where you can choose to accept a driven dimension
or cancel the placement.
Dimension Profiles
In this exercise, you add dimensional constraints to a sketch. The completed
exercise is shown in the following figure.
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