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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
Learn About Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Default Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Set an Active Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
How Referenced Files are Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Setting Up Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Single-user Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Vault Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Set Up Folder Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Creating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Set Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Library Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Library Locations for Mechanical Desktop Parts . . . . . . 125
Library Locations for iParts and iAssemblies . . . . . . . . 126
Content Center Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Other Types of Libraries In Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Avoid Duplicate File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Creating and Opening Files In Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 7
Managing Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Assembly Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Assembly Design Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Bottom-Up Assembly Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Top-Down Assembly Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Middle-Out Assembly Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Assembly Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Assembly Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Assembly Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Storing Data Files In Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Working with the Assembly Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
In-Place Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Visibility of Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Assembly Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Restructure Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Browser Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Graphics Window Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Producing Bills of Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Tips for Working with Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Chapter 8
Placing, Moving, and Constraining Components . . . . . . . . 141
Placing Components In Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Drag Components into Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Simplify Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Grounded Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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