Autodesk Inventor 10 Essentials Plus,9781418016982

Autodesk Inventor 10 Essentials Plus

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Pub. Date: 2005-06-22
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Summary

Over 1,000 screen captures adorning this book assist in the clarification of essential Autodesk Inventor® concepts, from basic sketching and modeling through advanced modeling techniques. Thoroughly updated to release 10, this "how-to" and reference manual provides in-depth explanations of the user interface, toolbars, dialogue boxes, sketch tools, drawing views, assembly modeling, and more for learning and mastering Autodesk Inventor®. Highlights include step-by-step tutorials that showcase practical skills and generous exercises designed for self-paced learning or for use in group-based instruction. Confidence will soar as users apply newly learned professional techniques to their own projects, speeding them to proficiency.

Author Biography

Alan J. Kalameja is the Department Head of Design and Construction at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. Daniel T. Banach is the Director for Technical Services at Master Graphics, Inc., an Autodesk Systems Center.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Getting Started
Chapter Objectives
1(1)
Getting Started with Autodesk Inventor
1(3)
Getting Started
2(1)
New
3(1)
Open
3(1)
Projects
4(1)
Projects in Autodesk Inventor
4(11)
Project Setup
4(1)
Project File Search Options
5(1)
Included File and Workgroup
6(1)
Workspace
6(1)
Workgroup Search Paths
7(1)
Library Search Paths
7(1)
Frequently Used Subfolders
7(1)
Folder Options
8(1)
Options
8(1)
Project File Search Order
9(1)
Resolving File Links
10(1)
Creating Projects
10(1)
What type of project are you creating?
11(3)
Editing Projects
14(1)
Autodesk Vault
14(1)
Projects
15(4)
File Information
19(2)
File Types
19(1)
Multiple Document Environment
20(1)
Save Options
20(1)
Application Options
21(1)
Design Support System
22(2)
User Interface
24(1)
Toolbars, Panel Bar, and Command Bar
25(2)
Command Entry
25(1)
Toolbars and the Panel Bar
26(1)
Shortcut Menus
26(1)
Windows Shortcuts
26(1)
Autodesk Inventor Shortcut Keys
26(1)
Customizing Shortcuts
27(3)
Commands Tab
28(1)
Rollup Command Dialogs
29(1)
Undo and Redo
30(1)
Viewpoint Options
30(3)
Isometric View
30(1)
Camera Views
31(1)
Shadow
31(1)
View Tools
32(1)
Viewing a Model
33(5)
Chapter Summary
38(1)
Checking Your Skills
39(1)
Sketching and Part Application Options
Chapter Objectives
40(1)
Sketching and Part Application Options
40(4)
Sketch Options
40(2)
Part Options
42(2)
Units
44(1)
Templates
45(1)
Creating a Part
46(3)
Sketches and Default Planes
47(1)
New Sketch
48(1)
Sketch the Outline of the Part
49(10)
Sketching Overview
49(1)
Sketching Tools
50(5)
Precise Input
55(1)
Selecting Objects
55(1)
Deleting Objects
56(1)
Measure Tools
56(3)
Creating a Sketch with Lines
59(2)
Creating a Sketch with Tangencies
61(3)
Constraining The Sketch
64(5)
Constraint Types
65(1)
Adding Constraints
66(1)
Snaps
67(1)
Dragging a Sketch
67(1)
Showing and Deleting Constraints
68(1)
Adding and Displaying Constraints
69(3)
Adding Dimensions
72(6)
General Dimensioning
72(3)
Entering and Editing a Dimension Value
75(3)
Auto Dimension
78(1)
Dimensioning a Sketch
79(3)
Opening/Importing Autocad Files
82(6)
Opening an AutoCAD File or AutoCAD Mechanical File
83(5)
Importing/Inserting Autocad Data Into a Sketch
88(1)
Importing Other File Types
89(1)
Sat
89(1)
Step
89(1)
PRO/E
89(1)
DXF
90(1)
IGES
90(1)
Inserting an Autocad File
90(2)
Chapter Summary
92(1)
Applying Your Skills
93(1)
Skill Exercise 2-1
93(1)
Skill Exercise 2-2
93(1)
Checking Your Skills
94(2)
Creating and Editing Sketched Features
Chapter Objectives
96(1)
Understanding Features
96(1)
Consumed and Unconsumed Sketches
97(1)
Using the Browser for Creating and Editing
97(3)
Switching Environments
100(2)
Feature Tools
102(2)
Extruding a Sketch
104(4)
Shape
105(2)
Match Shape
107(1)
More
108(1)
Exercises 3-1 Extruding a Sketch
108(2)
Revolving A Sketch
110(3)
Shape
111(1)
Operation
111(1)
Extents
112(1)
Output
112(1)
Match Shape
113(1)
Centerlines and Diametric Dimensions
113(1)
Revolving a Sketch
114(2)
Editing a Feature
116(3)
Editing Feature Size
118(1)
3D Grips
119(5)
Move Feature
121(1)
Renaming Features and Sketches
122(1)
Feature Color
123(1)
Deleting a Feature
124(1)
Failed Features
124(1)
Editing a Feature Sketch
124(2)
Editing Features and Sketches
126(1)
Sketched Features
127(1)
Defining the Active Sketch Plane
128(2)
Face Cycling
129(1)
Sketch Planes
130(3)
Projecting Part Edges
133(1)
Direct Model Edge Referencing
133(1)
Project Edges
134(2)
Chapter Summary
136(1)
Applying Your Skills
136(4)
Skill Exercise 3-1
136(1)
Skill Exercise 3-2
137(1)
Skill Exercise 3-3
138(2)
Checking Your Skills
140(2)
Creating Placed Features
Chapter Objectives
142(1)
Fillets
142(7)
Constant Tab
144(3)
Variable Tab
147(1)
Setbacks Tab
148(1)
Chamfers
149(3)
Method
150(1)
Edge and Face
151(1)
Distance and Angle
152(1)
Edge Chain and Setback
152(1)
Creating Fillets and Chamfers
152(3)
Holes
155(7)
Editing Hole Features
156(1)
Holes Dialog Box
157(1)
Placement
157(1)
Hole Option
158(1)
Hole Type
159(2)
Hole Centers
161(1)
Creating Holes
162(4)
Threads
166(2)
Location Tab
167(1)
Specification Tab
168(1)
Creating Threads
168(2)
Shelling
170(3)
Remove Faces
172(1)
Thickness
172(1)
Direction
172(1)
Unique Face Thickness
172(1)
Shelling a Part
173(2)
Face Draft
175(2)
Draft Type
176(1)
Pull Direction and Fixed Plane
176(1)
Faces
176(1)
Draft Angle
176(1)
Creating Face Drafts
177(3)
Work Features
180(3)
Creating a Work Axis
181(1)
Creating Work Points
181(2)
Creating Work Axes
183(2)
Creating Work Planes
185(3)
Feature Visibility
187(1)
Creating Work Planes
188(2)
Patterns
190(7)
Rectangular Patterns
192(3)
Circular Patterns
195(2)
Linear Patterns--Pattern Along a Path
197(1)
Creating Rectangular Patterns
197(2)
Creating Circular Patterns
199(1)
Creating Path Patterns
200(2)
Chapter Summary
202(1)
Applying Your Skills
203(1)
Skill Exercise 4-2
203(1)
Checking Your Skills
204(2)
Creating and Editing Drawing Views
Chapter Objectives
206(1)
Drawing Options, Creating a Drawing, and Drawing Tools
207(5)
Drawing Options
207(1)
Creating a Drawing
208(1)
Drawing Tools
209(1)
Drawing Views Panel Bar
210(1)
Drawing Annotation Panel Bar
210(2)
Drawing Sheet Preparation
212(2)
Border Creation
214(1)
Title Blocks
214(3)
Inserting a Default Title Block
214(1)
Edit Property Fields Dialog Box
215(1)
Creating a New Title Block
216(1)
Reorder and Sort by Name for Drawing Resources
217(1)
Styles
217(7)
Style Name/Value
217(1)
Sub-Styles
218(1)
Controlling Style Library Changes
218(1)
Documents, Style Libraries, and Templates
219(2)
Managing Styles
221(1)
Creating a New Style
221(1)
Edit Styles Manually in Documents
222(1)
Setting Object Defaults
223(1)
Overriding an Object's Style
224(1)
Sheets, Borders, and Title Blocks
224(5)
Templates
229(1)
Creating Drawing Views
229(1)
Selecting Drawing View Commands
230(1)
Using the Drawing View Dialog Box
230(6)
Base Views
234(1)
Projected Views
235(1)
Creating a Multiview Drawing
236(5)
Auxiliary Views
241(29)
Section Views
242(6)
Detail Views
248(2)
Broken Views
250(3)
Break-Out Views
253(10)
Section Depth
263(2)
Editing the Section View Depth
265(1)
Creating Draft Views
266(2)
Creating Perspective Views
268(2)
Complex Drawing View Techniques
270(6)
Editing Drawing Views
276(4)
Moving Drawing Views
276(1)
Editing Drawing View Properties
276(2)
Displaying Tangent Edges
278(1)
Deleting Drawing Views
278(1)
Drawing View Alignments
279(1)
Editing Drawing Views
280(3)
Dimensions
283(13)
Retrieving Model Dimensions
284(3)
Dimension Visibility
287(1)
Changing Model Dimension Values
287(1)
General Dimensions
288(1)
Adding General Dimensions to a Drawing View
289(1)
General Dimensions-Linear
289(1)
General Dimensions--Radius
290(1)
General Dimensions--Diameter
291(1)
General Dimensions--Angular
291(1)
Moving and Centering Dimension Text
292(1)
Editing General Dimension Extension Lines
292(1)
Editing Model Extension Lines
293(1)
Editing the Arrow Terminator
293(1)
Selecting Drawing Objects
294(2)
Annotations
296(8)
Center Marks and Centerlines
296(2)
Automated Centerlines from Models
298(3)
Text and Leaders
301(1)
Text Positioning
301(3)
Additional Annotation Tools
304(1)
Hole and Thread Notes
304(3)
Hole Note Styles
305(1)
Editing Hole Notes
306(1)
Creating Text and Dimension Styles
307(3)
Adding Dimensions and Annotations
310(8)
Review Sequence for Creating Drawing Views
318(1)
Chapter Summary
318(1)
Applying Your Skills
319(2)
Skill Exercise 5-1
319(1)
Skill Exercise 5-2
320(1)
Checking Your Skills
321(1)
Creating and Documenting Assemblies
Chapter Objectives
322(1)
Creating Assemblies
323(1)
Assembly Options
324(3)
Assembly Tools
324(3)
The Assembly Browser
327(1)
Bottom-Up Approach
328(1)
Top-Down Approach
329(4)
Occurrences
330(1)
Multiple Documents and Drag & Drop Components
331(1)
Active Component
331(1)
Open and Edit
332(1)
Grounded Components
333(1)
Inserting Multiple Parts in a Single Operation
333(1)
Subassemblies
334(1)
Restructuring Components
335(1)
Reordering Components
336(1)
Assembly Constraints
336(14)
Types of Constraints
338(1)
Assembly Constraint Types
339(5)
Motion Constraint Types
344(2)
Transitional Constraint
346(1)
Applying Assembly Constraints
346(2)
Moving and Rotating Components
348(2)
Editing Assembly Constraints
350(2)
Other Constraint Tools
352(2)
Find Other Half
352(1)
Constraint Tool Tip
353(1)
Constraint Offset Value Modification
353(1)
Assembling Parts
354(10)
Designing Parts In-Place
364(1)
Designing Parts in the Assembly Context
365(7)
Assembly Browser Tools
372(2)
In-Place Activation
372(2)
Visibility Control
374(1)
Adaptivity
374(10)
Assembly Tab Options
375(1)
Underconstrained Adaptive Features
376(2)
Adaptive Feature Properties
378(4)
Adaptive Subassemblies
382(1)
Adapting the Sketch or Feature
383(1)
Creating Adaptive Parts
384(7)
Enabled Components
391(1)
Patterning Components
391(7)
Component Patterns
391(3)
Assembly Patterns
394(1)
Additional Component Pattern Options
395(3)
Patterning Components
398(5)
Analysis Tools
403(2)
Center of Gravity
403(1)
Interference Checking
404(1)
Analyzing an Assembly
405(4)
Driving Constraints
409(3)
Driving Constraints
412(3)
Design View Representations
415(15)
Creating a New Design View Representation
418(2)
Increasing Performance Through Design View Representations
420(1)
Visibility Overrides
421(1)
Importing Design View Representations from Other Assemblies
421(3)
Creating a Private Design View Representation
424(2)
Associative Design Views
426(1)
Creating Drawing Views from Design View Representations
427(3)
Flexible Assemblies
430(2)
Positional Representations
432(7)
Creating Drawing Views from Positional Representations
438(1)
Positional Representations
439(7)
Creating Overlay Views
446(2)
Documenting Assemblies Using Presentation Files
448(10)
Creating Presentation Views
449(1)
Tweaking Components
450(3)
Animation
453(2)
Changing the Animation Sequence
455(1)
Presentation Highlighting
456(1)
Setting Units in a Presentation File
456(2)
Creating Presentation Views
458(5)
Creating Drawing Views From Assemblies and Presentation Files
463(1)
Creating Balloons
464(14)
Item Numbering Dialog Box Options
465(1)
Auto Ballooning
466(3)
Split Balloons
469(2)
Creating Balloons with User-Defined Symbols
471(1)
Editing Balloons
471(7)
Parts Lists
478(2)
Editing BOM Data
479(1)
Parts List Tools
480(4)
Parts List Operations (Top Icons)
480(2)
Creating Custom Parts
482(1)
Spreadsheet View
482(1)
Nested Parts Lists
483(1)
Creating Assembly Drawings
484(9)
Chapter Summary
493(1)
Applying Your Skills
494(4)
Skill Exercise 6-1
494(1)
Assembly Tips:
495(1)
Skill Exercise 6-2
496(2)
Checking Your Skills
498(2)
Advanced Sketching and Constraining Techniques
Chapter Objectives
500(1)
Construction Geometry
500(2)
Ellipses
502(1)
2D Splines
503(5)
Bowtie
503(2)
Fit Method
505(1)
Insert Point
506(1)
Close Spline
507(1)
Display Curvature
507(1)
Spline Tension
508(1)
Constrain and Dimension a Spline
508(1)
Complex Sketching
508(6)
Pattern Sketches
514(2)
Shared Sketches
516(1)
Mirror Sketches and Symmetry Constraint
517(2)
Slice Graphics
519(1)
Sketch on Another Part's Face
520(1)
Projecting Edges and Sketching on Another Part's Face
521(3)
Dimension Display, Relationships, and Equations
524(3)
Dimension Display
525(1)
Dimension Relationships
526(1)
Equations
526(1)
Parameters
527(6)
User Parameters
529(1)
Linked Parameters
530(3)
Auto Dimension, Relationships, and Parameters
533(6)
Chapter Summary
539(1)
Applying Your Skills
539(5)
Skill Exercise 7-1
539(5)
Checking Your Skills
544(2)
Advanced Part Modeling Techniques
Chapter Objectives
546(1)
Using Open Profiles
547(2)
Rib and Web Features
549(3)
Shape
550(1)
Thickness
550(1)
Extents
550(1)
Creating Ribs and Webs
551(1)
Rib Networks
552(1)
Creating Ribs and Webs
552(4)
Emboss Text and Profiles
556(3)
Step 1 - Creating Text
556(1)
Step 2 - Embossing Text
557(2)
Creating Text and Emboss Features
559(4)
Sweep Features
563(12)
Shape
564(1)
More
564(1)
Creating a Sweep Feature
565(1)
3D Sketching
566(9)
Creating Sweep Features
575(3)
Coil Features
578(4)
Coil Shape Tab
578(2)
Coil Size Tab
580(1)
Coil Ends Tab
581(1)
Loft Features
582(6)
Curves Tab
584(1)
Conditions Tab
585(1)
Transition Tab
586(2)
Creating Loft Features
588(3)
Part Split and Face Split
591(2)
Method
592(1)
Faces
593(1)
Splitting a Part
593(3)
Copying Features
596(4)
Mirroring Features
600(1)
Suppressing Features
601(2)
Conditionally Suppress Features
603(1)
Reordering Features
604(1)
Feature Rollback
605(1)
File Properties
606(2)
General
607(1)
Summary
607(1)
Project
607(1)
Status
608(1)
Custom
608(1)
Save
608(1)
Physical
608(1)
Center of Gravity
608(2)
Part Materials
609(1)
Override Mass and Volume Properties
610(2)
Iparts
612(12)
Creating iParts
613(6)
Editing iParts
619(2)
iPart Placement
621(1)
Standard iPart Libraries
622(1)
Custom iParts
623(1)
Creating and Placing Iparts
624(6)
Ifeatures
630(10)
Create iFeatures
631(3)
Insert iFeatures
634(3)
Editing iFeatures
637(2)
Inserting Table-Driven iFeatures
639(1)
Creating and Placing Ifeatures
640(4)
Publishing Parts and Features
644(2)
Publishing Parts
644(1)
Publishing Features
645(1)
Placing Published Parts and Features
646(3)
Placing a Published Part
646(2)
Placing a Published Features
648(1)
Design Accelerator
649(1)
Chapter Summary
650(2)
Applying Your Skills
652(2)
Skill Exercise 8-1
652(2)
Checking Your Skills
654(3)
Sheet Metal Design
Chapter Objectives
657(1)
Introduction to Sheet Metal Design
657(4)
Sheet Metal Fabrication
658(3)
Sheet Metal Parts
661(2)
Sheet Metal Design Methods
661(1)
Creating a Sheet Metal Part
662(1)
Sheet Metal Tools
663(15)
Sheet Metal Styles
664(5)
Face
669(4)
Contour Flange
673(3)
Flange
676(2)
Creating Sheet Metal Parts
678(7)
Hem
685(2)
Hems
687(7)
Fold
690(2)
Bend
692(2)
Modifying Sheet Metal Parts
694(7)
Cut
701(2)
Cut Across Bend
703(4)
Corner Seam
707(7)
Corner Round
710(1)
Corner Chamfer
711(1)
Punch Tool
712(2)
Punch Tool
714(5)
Flat Pattern
719(3)
Common Tools
721(1)
Detailing Sheet Metal Designs
722(1)
Documenting Sheet Metal Designs
723(6)
Chapter Summary
729(1)
Applying Your Skills
730(1)
Skill Exercise 09-1
730(1)
Checking Your Skills
731(2)
Index 733

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