Technical requirements

To complete the recipes, you will require Autodesk Inventor 2023, or a newer version installed on your machine. The recipe files are not backward compatible and will not work with software versions older than the 2023 version. To download and use the practice files that are required to complete the learning objective, type the following address into your internet browser: https://packt.link/w6Kik

Downloading your practice files

To make the most of the downloaded practice files’ .zip folder, you will have to set the Inventor project file up correctly for the practice files. This enables Inventor to quickly access the location of your practice files from your C drive.

To set up the project, follow these steps:

1. Go to your PC Downloads folder, and copy the zipped folder titled Inventor Cookbook 2023 Practice Files. This is the data you have just downloaded.
2. Paste the zipped folder into Windows (C:). Then, right-click on the folder, select...