You're reading from Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook A guide to gaining advanced modeling and automation skills for design engineers through actionable recipes

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810500

Length 664 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

Concepts

Computer Aided Design

Author (1):

Alexander Bordino

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Inventor Part Modeling – Sketch, Work Features, and Best Practices

2. Chapter 2: Advanced Design Methodologies and Strategies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Driving Automation and Parametric Modeling in Inventor

4. Chapter 4: Freeform, Surface Modeling, and Analysis

5. Chapter 5: Advanced CAD Management and Collaboration – Project Files, Templates, and Custom Properties

6. Chapter 6: Inventor Assembly Fundamentals – Constraints, Joints, and BOMS

7. Chapter 7: Model and Assembly Simplification with Simplify, Derive, and Model States

8. Chapter 8: Design Accelerators – Specialized Inventor Tool Sets for Frames, Shafts, and Bolted Connections

9. Chapter 9: Design Communication – Inventor Studio, Animation, Rendering, and Presentation Files

10. Chapter 10: Inventor iLogic Fundamentals — Creating Process Automation and Configurations

11. Chapter 11: Inventor Stress and Simulation – Workflow and Techniques

12. Chapter 12: Sheet Metal Design – Comprehensive Methodologies to Create Sheet Metal Products

13. Chapter 13: Inventor Professional 2023 – What’s New?

14. Index

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Creating and adding decals and custom materials

Decals of company logos or other images are sometimes required to be featured on a CAD model. In this recipe, we will place a logo decal onto a model, placing it on various geometry types, including curved features. We will also specify and create a custom material for the model and save this in the material and appearance libraries (custom appearances can also be created in the same way).

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need access to the Bearing Bracket.ipt file. Select the Inventor 2023 Cookbook folder and then select the Chapter 9 folder to find the part file.

How to do it…

To begin, we will start to create the custom material, define its properties, and also show how it will display in the model:

Ensure that you have Bearing Bracket.ipt open in Inventor.
Navigate to the Quick Access toolbar, and you will notice that the active material at present is Iron Cast. Select the Material Browser...