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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)

Creating automatic mates using iMates

iMates are used in Inventor to work more efficiently in part designs when putting them together into a top-level assembly. The iMate functionality enables you to place and mate components in place automatically in an assembly. This is very useful if there are several repeating components in an assembly when identical mates are required. iMates have the constraint information stored within, so manual mates are no longer required with that component. iMates can also be combined into an iComposite so that parts that require multiple Mate constraints can be assembled automatically.

This also makes it easy to create interchangeable components within an assembly. If the same iMates are configured for each component within the assembly, they can be swapped out automatically and changed with the iMate functionality.

In this recipe, you will complete an assembly of a drone using iMates to automatically complete the assembly. iComposites will be created...