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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Creating automatic mates using iMates

iMates are used in Inventor to work more efficiently in part designs when putting them together into a top-level assembly. The iMate functionality enables you to place and mate components in place automatically in an assembly. This is very useful if there are several repeating components in an assembly when identical mates are required. iMates have the constraint information stored within, so manual mates are no longer required with that component. iMates can also be combined into an iComposite so that parts that require multiple Mate constraints can be assembled automatically.

This also makes it easy to create interchangeable components within an assembly. If the same iMates are configured for each component within the assembly, they can be swapped out automatically and changed with the iMate functionality.

In this recipe, you will complete an assembly of a drone using iMates to automatically complete the assembly. iComposites will be created...