Creating and managing an Inventor .ipj project file
Before embarking on a practical recipe for creating and managing an Inventor project file, it is important to understand the terminology and nomenclature and how the project file system works within Inventor.
Inventor uses project files to organize and collate all the design data associated with a job or project that you are working on. Projects can consist of parts and assemblies but also standard components, and libraries of the standard components used, such as fasteners.
Inventor projects act as a central repository and location for your design files, so Inventor knows the location of all parts and assemblies that are associated with a particular design job.
There is no limit to the amount of project files that you can have to manage your work within Inventor. There are normally two schools of thought about managing projects in an organization:
- A single project with an internal folder structure within it for each...
