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CHAPTER 1 Inventor DesIgn PhIlosoPhy
4. Close the Style and Standard Editor dialog box and then click the small X icon located
just above the View Cube to close the assembly file. Note that there is an X at the very top
right of the screen that closes Inventor completely; if you accidentally select that one sim-
ply restart Inventor and continue to the next step.
5. From the Get Started tab, click the New button.
6. In the New File dialog box, set the Default tab active and choose the Standard.idw icon,
and then click OK. This creates a new Inventor drawing file.
7. With the new drawing file active, select the Manage tab from the Ribbon menu, and then
click the Styles Editor button. You will see that the style area option reflects styles per-
taining to drawings, as shown in Figure 1.13.
The drawing style collection contains various dimension styles, layers and layers names, line
type settings, object defaults, text styles, and other settings related specifically to 2D drawing
styles. If you compare Figure 1.23 and 1.24 you will see that the Styles Editor contains different
styles collections depending upon the type of file you are working with. This is just one example
of the way that Inventor uses task-based dialogs to present only the options that make sense.
Figure 1.25 shows another, comparing two Extrude dialog boxes; one is for a solid feature and
the other is for a surface feature.
Figure 1.23
The Inventor Style
And Standard
Editor (assembly
mode)
Figure 1.24
The Inventor Style
And Standard Edi-
tor (drawing mode)
Figure 1.25
Compare the avail-
able options for
these two extrude
dialog boxes
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