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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
Insert All Components At Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Work with Calculators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Author User Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Set File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Chapter 12
Setting Up Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Creating Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Edit Model Dimensions in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Formatting Drawings with Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Use Styles In Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Share Styles Between Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Use Styles Available In Drafting Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Create Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Object Defaults Styles and Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Using Drawing Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Sheet Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Edit Default Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Format Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Sketch Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Drawing Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Align Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Edit Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Tips for Creating Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Chapter 13
Creating Drawing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Drawing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Drawing View Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Base Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Projected Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Editing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Creating Multiview Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Base Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Section Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Defining Section Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Auxiliary Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Detail Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Break Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Draft Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Modifying Views and Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Delete Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Align Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Edit Hatch Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Rotate Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Move Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
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