Inventor: Back to Basics 1 Inventor: Back to the Basics Michael Davis – www.YourCad.Guru PD15337 This class will be an introduction or reintroduction to Autodesk Inventor software. It will also go into general detail about a lot of the common issues that come up on the Inventor Forum. It is generally understood that there are more intermediate and advanced Inventor sessions at Autodesk University; however, sometimes you need to go back to the basics and introduce/reintroduce people to some of these features they might not or may not know or understand—whether it's how to find them, or how to use them. This session features Inventor Professional 2016 and 2017. • Learning Objective 1: Gain a basic overview of the Home Page and Application Options • Learning Objective 2: Get a template overview of IPT, IAM, IPN, weldments, sheet metal, styles manager, and IProperties/parameters. • Learning Objective 3: Gain an overview of AnyCAD, iLogic, 3D PDF, and Screencast • Learning Objective 4: Learn where to go for help: Knowledge Network, forums, WikiHelp, blogs About the Speaker(s) Michael Davis is currently a Mechanical Design Engineer, and the owner of YourCad.guru. He’s based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a remote office the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. He provides design services, support, tips & tricks, and updates for various Autodesk products. Michael has been working as a Mechanical Design Engineer for over 25 years, as well as being an Mechanical Design Engineer, he has also held the position of Cad Manager where he has provided Cad support and mentoring to others. Michael has been using Autodesk products for the mass majority of his careers and was a former Autodesk support employee. He has been part of the Autodesk Expert Elite program for 2 years and helps on various Autodesk forums (in English and German) daily. This is Michael’s second year speaking at AU.
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Inventor: Back to the Basics
Michael Davis – www.YourCad.Guru
PD15337 This class will be an introduction or reintroduction to Autodesk Inventor software. It will also go into general detail about a lot of the common issues that come up on the Inventor Forum. It is generally understood that there are more intermediate and advanced Inventor sessions at Autodesk University; however, sometimes you need to go back to the basics and introduce/reintroduce people to some of these features they might not or may not know or understand—whether it's how to find them, or how to use them. This session features Inventor Professional 2016 and 2017.
• Learning Objective 1: Gain a basic overview of the Home Page and Application Options
• Learning Objective 2: Get a template overview of IPT, IAM, IPN, weldments, sheet metal, styles manager, and IProperties/parameters.
• Learning Objective 3: Gain an overview of AnyCAD, iLogic, 3D PDF, and Screencast
• Learning Objective 4: Learn where to go for help: Knowledge Network, forums,
WikiHelp, blogs
About the Speaker(s)
Michael Davis is currently a Mechanical Design Engineer, and the owner of YourCad.guru. He’s based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a remote office the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. He provides design services, support, tips & tricks, and updates for various Autodesk products. Michael has been working as a Mechanical Design Engineer for over 25 years, as well as being an Mechanical Design Engineer, he has also held the position of Cad Manager where he has provided Cad support and mentoring to others. Michael has been using Autodesk products for the mass majority of his careers and was a former Autodesk support employee. He has been part of the Autodesk Expert Elite program for 2 years and helps on various Autodesk forums (in English and German) daily. This is Michael’s second year speaking at AU.
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• Learning Objective 1: Gain a basic overview of the Home Page and
Application 0ptions
Inventor Home Page
What is the Homepage?
The home page is the centralized location for your given projects, templates, recently opened document, and it has the ability to pin documents that are commonly used. From here you can start a new file, change your template and open your most recently opened files.
(If it’s still available)
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You have just about every option for starting or opening an Inventor file from the homepage. You can pick from all of your templates from the New section.
From the Projects tab, we can pick a new IPJ project from the list of available Project files.
Note: Currently you cannot browse and add any new ipj’s or create a new one from the Projects box.
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From the Shortcuts tab, you can create a shortcut to a work folder. When you click on the shortcut folder you can open an existing file from that folder.
You can also pick from the drop down box and find the file you’d like to open.
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In this following image from the lower left area of the homepage, you can control how you view your recently opened documents.
Your choices are: Project, File Types, Sort By and Date Modified
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From the viewing panel at the bottom you can see all of your recent or pin files.
In the next few images, you will see the different viewing options.
(Large)
(Small)
(List)
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Application Options
Application Options control your preferences for appearance, behaviors, and file locations in your Inventor application.
You have a couple of ways to access the Application Options interface.
You can find it under the Tools Tab
Also under the File tab in Inventor 2017
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Under the Inventor Icon (application menu) in the left upper corner for Inventor 2016 and prior versions of Inventor.
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General Tab Knowledge Network Link
Notes:
Set your User name here
Turn on and off your Homepage from here. You can also set how many recent documents (Inventor 2017 only) you see on it
Set your Font and Font Height from here
Tool Tips Timer
You can save your Application options by exporting them (saving ). You can then import them each year your pc or to other pc’s.
Below are the links to all of the Application Options Reference tabs on the Autodesk Knowledge Network:
Application Options References
• General Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets behavioral options for operations in the application.
• Save Tab Reference (Application Options) Specifies whether changes warrant forced check-out and save in multi-user modes. Save the file on close, and save the file when saving another file that references it.
• File Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the locations for files used for various functions.
• Colors Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the color scheme for the graphics window, appearance of the background, and optional background image.
• Display Tab Reference (Application Options) Controls settings for display of a model when you open it, or displays a new view on the current model.
• Display Appearance Dialog Reference Specifies how new document windows display the model.
• Hardware Tab Reference (Application Options) These settings pertain to the graphical appearance and system performance.
• Prompts Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the responses to questions in several Inventor dialog boxes.
• Drawing Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the options for working with drawings.
• Notebook Tab Reference (Application Options) Controls the display of design notes in the Engineer's Notebook.
• Sketch Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets preferences for sketching.
• Heads-Up Display (HUD) Settings Reference Sets the options for the Dynamic Input Heads-Up Display (HUD).
• Part Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the defaults for creating new parts.
• iFeature Tab Reference (Application Options) Specifies the location for iFeature (catalog) files and the viewer used to manage and view the files.
• Assembly Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the preferences for working with assemblies.(not available in Inventor LT)
• Content Center Tab Reference (Application Options) Sets the preferences for working with Content Center.(not available in Inventor LT)
• Line Weight Settings Reference (Application Options) Sets the line weight display in drawings.
Learning Objective 2: Get an overview of IPT, IAM, IPN, weldments, sheet metal templates, styles manager and iProperties/parameters.
Autodesk Inventor has different file types based on what you’re doing within Inventor. For example, when you create a part or component, it is stored with a file which is different than when working with an assembly file. These file types are noticed and distinguished with the help of the file extensions (e.g. *.ipt). There are six types of files that can be created with Autodesk Inventor Professional:
1. Standard Part Files (.ipt);
2. Standard Assembly Files (iam);
3. Sheet metal Part Files (.ipt)
4. Weldment Assembly Files (.iam)
5. Presentation Files (.ipn)
6. Drawing Files (idw or dwg)
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Under the Projects Box, Folder Options templates you can see these templates
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Part File:
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Sheet Metal (part) File:
Sheet metal parts can be created from the New Templates options, or from the Convert to Sheet metal function under part modeling.
Use View representations to control the display state of an assembly during the design process: • Turn component visibility on and off to simplify the current task. • Assign a unique appearance to components. For example, a component
can be opaque gray in one view and transparent blue in another view. • Create display configurations that contain the appropriate component
visibility, camera viewing angle, and zoom area to recall. • Control sketch visibility of sketches controlled by the Object Visibility
command. (A view representation does not capture the visibility state of sketches that are controlled in the browser.)
• Control work feature visibility. • Save views of an assembly design in progress to preserve working
ideas. • Create views that aid in documenting the assembly. For example, a view
with the cover turned off to see the components inside. • Create unique views to filter the parts list in a drawing. For example, to
document an assembly procedure. • Simplify the task of creating positional representations by turning off all
unnecessary components. • Speed up drawing view creation by turning off components that are not
shown. For example, internal components. • Prepare the assembly for the creation of a Level of Detail representation
before using the Copy to Level of Detail command. • Prepare the assembly for creating a derived assembly by creating a view
representation that includes only the components required for the derive process.
Levels of Detail representations improve capacity and performance. They suppress unneeded components or replace many parts with a single part representation to reduce memory consumption and to simplify the modeling environment. LODs do not change the model’s Bill of Materials.
Right Mouse Button (RMB) on a style to create a new one
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You can import and export all different types of Styles, making it easier to share them. However if you set them up in your “Default Standard” in the templates, everyone will have access to them in the IDW’s.
Right Mouse Button (RMB) on style you’d like to export
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How to change your sheet size:
Right Mouse Button (RMB) on Sheet, Click on Edit sheet
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To Create a Base View and Projected View
Use the Custom View Orientation option to create a custom view.
• Learning Objective 3: Gain an overview of AnyCAD, iLogic, 3D PDF, and Screencast
AnyCad
Prior to Inventor 2016, when you had a file from another supporting CAD applications, you’d just translate it into Inventor and saved it as a related Inventor file. In 2016, Autodesk introduced AnyCad, giving you the option to keep those types of files in their native format. With 2017, keeping STEP files in their native format is also now possible.
Below are examples of the Form Tab (courtesy of Curtis W.)
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External Rules examples
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Screencast
What is Autodesk Screencast… Well, it’s a simple FREE video recording program that Autodesk released in a few years ago. They summed it up best with “A simple way to share what you know”
With that being said, you can see that it keeps all of your videos (Contributions) in a controlled location for you.
You have various viewing options for these videos: Public, Private and Unlisted
Bonus: You aren’t limited to just Autodesk Products when creating Screencast videos.
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3d PDF’s
To Export a Model to 3d PDF
3d PDF’s are a new feature that started with Inventor 2017. Autodesk provides you with several templates to work with.
Blank Blank - DVR Carousel Sample Part Template Sample Assembly Template In order to modify and use the 3d PDS’ to their fullest potential you’ll need the following additional programs: Adobe DC, NotePad (for editing the JavaScript) and if needed Photoshop, or Paint./
Some additional sites, blogs, websites and information you might find useful: Tips, Tricks, Support www.yourcad.guru https://cadtipstricks.wordpress.com/ Represent! With Level of Details or View Reps http://blogs.autodesk.com/inventor/2016/08/23/represent-with-level-of-details-or-view-reps/
Recommended settings: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Recommending-settings-to-optimize-performance-of-Inventor.html http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014/ENU/Inventor/files/GUID-46E714D8-8D90-4D1D-BD6D-8B30ABF78E50-htm.html Working with large assemblies: http://beinginventive.typepad.com/files/inventor-deep-dive---large-assembly-instructions.pdf 2017 Presentations Tutorial http://blogs.autodesk.com/inventor/2016/05/10/inventor-2017-presentations-tutorial/ What’s New 2017 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Inventor-WhatsNew/files/GUID-F772ABAD-C1CC-4E59-9612-C5EEFC3BC3AD-htm.html 2016 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Inventor-WhatsNew/files/GUID-A4A21E04-2F90-4A76-9C0D-28F61EEEDC93-htm.html