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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Model and Assembly Simplification with Simplify, Derive, and Model States

When working with assemblies and individual parts, creating simplified models with a reduced Level of Detail is often required as a part of the manufacturing workflow. Within Inventor, there are several workflows and tools that can be employed to achieve this. The Simplify tool (Shrinkwrap in versions 2021 and earlier) allows you to take your existing parts and assemblies and simplify them into a state that not only is easier to use but also allows you to protect your intellectual property. The Derive tool enables you to reference existing parts and assemblies as base components for modifications. Model States (Level of Detail in versions 2021 and earlier) allow the configuration and simplification of parts and assemblies and are an alternative to iParts and iAssemblies (see Chapter 3, Driving Automation and Parametric Modeling in Inventor, for more details).

In this chapter, you will learn about the following...