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Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

By : Alexander Bordino
Book Image

Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

By: Alexander Bordino

Overview of this book

Autodesk Inventor is an industry-leading, computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation. This book will help to bridge the gap between the fundamentals of this software and the more advanced features, workflows, and environments it has to offer. Using cookbook-style recipes, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding and practical experience in creating dynamic 3D parts, assemblies, and complete designs. You’ll also explore a variety of topics, including automation and parametric techniques, collaboration tools, creating sheet metal designs, and design accelerators such as frame generators. As you progress, the chapters will guide you through surface modeling tools, advanced assembly, and simplification tools, along with covering iLogic, Finite Element Analysis, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to use the advanced functionality within Autodesk Inventor but also have the practical experience you need to deploy specific techniques in your own projects and workflows.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Designing sheet metal parts in assemblies and .dxf output

In many instances, it can be advantageous to design the sheet metal part required within the context of an existing assembly. Within Inventor, you can use multiple modeling techniques to achieve this with standard parts, and this also extends to sheet metal parts.

In this recipe, we will design and place an additional component for a wall-mounted TV bracket. Once complete, we will then produce flat patterns and export the final design to a .dxf file for manufacture.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need to navigate to Inventor Cookbook 2023 | Chapter 12 and open TV Bracket Assembly.iam.

The assembly file contains an incomplete TV wall-mounted bracket, as shown here:

Figure 12.47: Incomplete TV wall-mounted bracket assembly – TV Bracket Assembly.iam

In this recipe, we will use sheet metal tools and standard modeling practices to create a new component in the context of the...