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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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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 equations and driving a model

For this recipe, you will take an existing model, show the expressions and values already contained within it, and then add and create new equations to facilitate the required changes. The equations that you create will enable you to drive the model (make changes to it with the equations) to the desired outcome.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need to open the Housing.ipt file from the Chapter 3 folder.

To begin with, we will show the dimensions in the model at present, and then add equations to control the geometry to the desired output.

How to do it…

To begin this recipe, we will first look at what dimensions are present in Housing.ipt and examine the structure of the model. We will then proceed to apply equations. With Housing.ipt open, carry out the following steps:

  1. Right-click in any space within the Graphics Window and select Dimension | Display | Name. Then, right-click on Extrusion 1 and select...
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