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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Collaborating and sharing designs with Pack and Go

In this recipe, you will learn how to use Pack and Go functionality to share a design or project with someone else.

Pack and Go is used to archive a file structure, share or copy a complete set of design files while retaining links to referenced files, or isolate a group of files. It can be used to share data externally as well as internally within your company. Note that recipients must have a valid Autodesk product to open their files once a Pack and Go package is received.

Pack and Go does not create a live link for multiple stakeholders to make edits too but instead sends a copy of data on your local machine as a package. If collaboration on the same files is required within the same organization, then using Autodesk Vault with Inventor is highly recommended for this and is much more efficient.

When Pack and Go is initiated on a file or multiple files, these files are copied to the location specified by the user, and the...