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CHAPTER 1 Inventor DesIgn PhIlosoPhy
When the Style And Standard Editor dialog box opens, the styles collection relating to the
assembly file appears, as in Figure 1.23. You will notice that while working with an assembly
(or part), three style areas are available: Color, Lighting, and Material.
4. Close the Style And Standard Editor dialog box and then click the small X icon located
just above the ViewCube 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, make the Default tab active and click 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. In the resulting dialog box, you will see that the style area
option reflects styles pertaining to drawings, as shown in Figure 1.24.
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 Figure 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 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.
Because creating a surface extrusion is different than creating a solid extrusion, some options
are simply grayed out and not available. You will notice this throughout Inventor as options are
Figure 1.23
The Inventor Style
And Standard
Editor dialog box
(assembly mode)
Figure 1.24
The Inventor Style
And Standard
Editor dialog box
(drawing mode)
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