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
You can select a face on an existing part, and sketch on it. The sketch is
displayed with the Cartesian grid defined. If you want to construct a feature
on a curved surface, or at an angle to a surface, first construct a work plane.
Each of the following operations creates a solid extrusion from a sketch profile.
Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, and Loft can also create surface extrusions:
Projects a sketch profile along a straight path. Use to
create surfaces as well as solids.
Extrude
Projects a sketch profile around an axis.Revolve
Projects a sketch profile along a sketched path.Sweep
Constructs a feature with two or more sketch profiles
sketched on multiple part faces or work planes. The
Loft
model transitions from one shape to the next, and can
follow a curved path.
Projects a sketch profile along a helical path.Coil
Creates a rib or web extrusion from a 2D sketch.Rib
The same procedure for creating a sketched base feature is used to create
additional sketched features.
Extrude Features
Use the Extrude tool to create a feature by adding depth to an open or closed
profile or a region.
■ In the Assembly environment, the Extrude tool is available on the Assembly
Panel bar when you are creating an assembly feature.
■ In the Weldment environment, the Extrude tool is available on the
Weldment Panel bar when you are creating a preparation or machining
feature.
■ In the Part environment, the Extrude tool is available on the Part Features
panel bar when you are creating an extrusion for a single part.
Workflow overview: Create a parametric solid model and associated drawings
1 Start with a sketch, or select a profile or region that represents the cross
section of the extruded feature you want to create. Open profiles cannot
be used when creating extrusions as assembly features.
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