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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)

Structural Shape Author – creating your own custom frame members and publishing these to the Content Center

Structural Shape Author enables you to create custom content for components for use within Tube & Pipe, Frame Generator, and as standalone components. In this recipe, you will create a custom aluminum extrusion, define its parameters, and then publish it to your Content Center for use with the frame generator.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need to Run Inventor as Administrator from Windows. Open AluEx1.ipt from the Chapter 8 folder in Inventor Cookbook 2023.

How to do it…

With AluEx1.ipt open in Inventor, you will see that AluEX1.ipt is a simple U-channel aluminum extruded profile. We will perform a series of operations to define and then author this component so that it can be used within the Frame Generator environment for future use:

  1. Expand 1 in the Model browser, right-click on Sketch1, and select Edit Sketch (the sketch...