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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)

Building an assembly of iParts with variations such as different sizes, shapes, and content using iAssemblies

iAssemblies are used to create variations of assemblies and subassemblies that make up your designs. They are an efficient way to create configurations of assemblies, in a single file, without the need to recreate and duplicate work. iAssemblies work and are configured in a similar way to iFeatures and iParts.

Configurable attributes in an iAssembly can consist of suppressing or computing features/parts, constraint values, materials, appearance, and even the BOM structure of components. In most cases, the following steps are used to create an iAssembly:

  1. Standard parts are assembled into an assembly.
  2. iParts are configured from the parts in the assembly (this can be done prior to being placed into the assembly).
  3. The creation of an iAssembly is initiated.
  4. Configurable attributes and iAssembly members are specified from the iParts or sub-iAssemblies.
  5. ...