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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
Other Sources of Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Moving and Rotating Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Constraining Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Place Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Mate Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Angle Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Tangent Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Insert Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Motion Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
iMates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Viewing Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Editing Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Tips for Managing Assembly Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Chapter 9
Creating Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Creating Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Parts In Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Projected Edges and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Subassemblies In Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Guidelines for Selecting Subassembly Components . . . . 161
Creating Component Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Independent Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Creating Assembly Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Use Assembly Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Using Work Features in Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Replacing Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Mirroring Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Copying Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Chapter 10
Analyzing Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Checking for Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Checking for Degrees of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Unconstrained Drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Constrained Drag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Constraint Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Drive Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Animating Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Selecting Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Chapter 11
Using Design Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
What is Design Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
What operations can I perform within Design Accelerator? . . . 186
Work with Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Work with Bolted Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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