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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)

Collaborating and sharing designs with Pack and Go

In this recipe, you will learn how to use Pack and Go functionality to share a design or project with someone else.

Pack and Go is used to archive a file structure, share or copy a complete set of design files while retaining links to referenced files, or isolate a group of files. It can be used to share data externally as well as internally within your company. Note that recipients must have a valid Autodesk product to open their files once a Pack and Go package is received.

Pack and Go does not create a live link for multiple stakeholders to make edits too but instead sends a copy of data on your local machine as a package. If collaboration on the same files is required within the same organization, then using Autodesk Vault with Inventor is highly recommended for this and is much more efficient.

When Pack and Go is initiated on a file or multiple files, these files are copied to the location specified by the user, and the...