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Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

By : Alexander Bordino
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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)

Presentation files – creating exploded views and animations of assemblies

Engineers and designers must frequently produce exploded views of products or assemblies to communicate design intent. Often, it is a requirement to produce an animation of this. Inventor has specific tools and file formats to enable the efficient creation of such animations. These are known as presentations.

Presentations (.ipn files) can be created from any assembly with two or more parts contained within it. In this recipe, you will create a presentation file of a toy figure, showing all its parts exploding outward. The result will be exported as a .avi video. The recipe will also show how you can use snapshot views within the Presentation environment to create an exploded view for a drawing file.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, we will have to create a new .ipn file and then import LMan.iam into the presentation file. Once this is complete, we can start the process of creating an exploded...