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Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810500
Length 664 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Bordino Alexander Bordino
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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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating model states in parts

Model states are incredibly versatile and effective ways of simplifying parts and assemblies and creating configurations of parts or assemblies. In this respect, they are an alternative to iParts and iAssemblies.

Model states allow for the creation of multiple representations of a part or assembly within a single file. This workflow makes it easier and more efficient to create and manage configurations within a design, and as all variations exist within one file, there is no risk of accidentally breaking the association between files. Model states are also an effective way of not only creating configurations of a product but also detailing assembly stages or manufacturing stages within a model.

Model states in parts can be used to create or represent the following:

  • Manufacturing or production stages
  • Manufacturing preparation stages
  • Ranges or product families
  • Simplification levels
  • The range of movement of parts

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