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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)

Managing the Content Center

In this recipe, you will learn how to manage the Content Center as part of your Inventor project. You will also learn its configuration and setup.

Getting ready

You will not need any practice files for this recipe. You will need to ensure you have completed the previous recipe, How to create and manage an Inventor .ipj project file, as we will be using the Test Project.ipj file.

How to do it…

The Content Center is a repository of standard nuts, bolts, washers, fasteners, structural members, and more that come as standard with Inventor 2023. The Content Center allows you to pull in existing standard design and manufacturing components and use them within your designs. It is important that, along with the Styles and Standards library, this is set up correctly as part of an Inventor project file:

  1. From the Inventor Home screen, ensure that Test Project is the active project.
  2. Expand + next to Folder Options:
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