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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)

Applying automatic bolted connections

Bolted connections are often a prominent and common feature of most mechanical design assemblies. Components such as nuts, bolts, and washers can be loaded independently into the model via the Content Center one at a time, but in some cases, it is advantageous to automate this procedure and apply multiple Content Center components that make up a bolted connection in one operation.

In this recipe, we will apply several bolted connection sub-assemblies to an existing assembly of parts.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, navigate to Inventor Cookbook 2023, then Chapter 8, followed by Stepper Motor Brake >, and open Nema 34 Stepper Motor Brake.iam.

How to do it…

With Nema 34 Stepper Motor Brake.iam, we will apply several bolted connections in one operation to the assembly:

  1. Ensure that you have Nema 34 Stepper Motor Brake.iam open. Navigate to the Top View. There are three countersunk threaded holes in the assembly...