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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
13 Double-click the assembly in the browser, turn on visibility of the bottle,
and then restore the Isometric view.
Your completed model should look like the following figure.
Close the file without saving or save the file with a new name to preserve
the original data file.
Shell Features
The Shell tool creates a hollow cavity in a part with walls of a specific thickness.
It removes material from a part by offsetting existing faces to create new ones
on the inside, outside, or both sides of the part. Use the shell feature to create
multisided parts like casings or enclosures. A part can have multiple shell
features.
When you start the shelling process, you specify which part faces to remove
or offset, and you can specify a unique wall thickness for each face on a part.
Use the Shell tool on the Part Features panel bar to remove material from a
part interior, creating a cavity with walls of a specified thickness. By default,
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