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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Using the Copy Object command to create a matching contoured part to another part

In this recipe, you will use Copy Object to copy the existing faces on a part file as a surface and then use Thicken/Offset to create a contoured part. We will then make changes to the original part using Direct Edit and the changes will be reflected in the overall assembly automatically

Getting ready

Open Copy_Object.iam from the Chapter 4 folder.

How to do it…

We will begin looking at the existing model and then creating an in-place component within the assembly. So:

With Copy_Object.iam open, select the Assemble tab and then click Create from the ribbon. Here, we will start the creation of an in-place component within the context of the assembly.
Rename the new component Casing.
Browse the Template drop-down list and select Metric\Standard (mm).ipt.
Leave the file location and BOM structure as their defaults. Then, select OK: