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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Applying Joints in assemblies

The Joint command is an alternative to the Constrain command that enables you to define an assembly, with a specified and allowable amount of movement. Joints are selected from a pre-defined list of possible connections and then placed directly onto a model, as constraints are.

The process for assigning a joint to a component is as follows:

First, the Joint command is selected.
The Joint type is then selected.
References on the component are selected.
The limits of movement are defined.
The Joint is complete. Once completed, Joints can be flexed or edited to suit.

The types of Joints that you have within Inventor are as follows:

Figure 6.33: The Joint command in the assembly environment

Automatic: This is the default Joint that is selected upon launching the command. This type of Joint enables Inventor to assume the type of Joint connection to create, based on the references picked. If the...