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 model states in assemblies

In this recipe, you will use a different version of the HandleMS.ipt screwdriver handle and combine this with other parts featuring model states to create model states and a configuration of the product in an assembly file.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, open ScrewDriverModelStateAssem.iam, located at Inventor Cookbook 2023 | Chapter 7 | Screwdriver Model States.

How to do it…

Before starting these steps, ensure that you have the ScrewDriverModelStateAssem.iam file open. We will link the model states for the HandleMS.ipt and Shaft.ipt files so that three total variations of the screwdriver are created, a long, medium, and short variant:

With ScrewDriverModelStateAssem.iam open, navigate to the top level of Model Browser. We need to create three corresponding model states at the top level of the assembly to drive the configurations. Right-click on Model States and select New. Repeat this twice to create three model...