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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

Managing the Content Center

In this recipe, you will learn how to manage the Content Center as part of your Inventor project. You will also learn its configuration and setup.

Getting ready

You will not need any practice files for this recipe. You will need to ensure you have completed the previous recipe, How to create and manage an Inventor .ipj project file, as we will be using the Test Project.ipj file.

How to do it…

The Content Center is a repository of standard nuts, bolts, washers, fasteners, structural members, and more that come as standard with Inventor 2023. The Content Center allows you to pull in existing standard design and manufacturing components and use them within your designs. It is important that, along with the Styles and Standards library, this is set up correctly as part of an Inventor project file:

  1. From the Inventor Home screen, ensure that Test Project is the active project.
  2. Expand + next to Folder Options:
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