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How to access Autodesk Inventor 2012 Help

sunithbabu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:52:30 +0000

Autodesk Inventor help files were part of the installation upto release 2010.

Autodesk Inventor Help can now be accessed by two ways., Firstly by accessing the online wiki and secondly by downloading the help files

Method – I

Since with the release of Autodesk Inventor 2011, all the help files can be accessed online at the Autodesk Wiki. Why was this implemented ? It was mainly to ensure, help files can be updated as and when possible/needed by Autodesk. This kind of implementation gives the user latest help materials from time to time.

How to get this access from within Autodesk Inventor ?

Click on Get Started Tab > Community Panel > Wiki Help

Clicking this icon, takes you to the Autodesk Wiki Page for Autodesk Inventor ( Click Here ) to know which page . Now you can choose from the available software’s and select Autodesk Inventor as shown below and you will be taken to this page for Autodesk Inventor Help Current Version

Method – II

Here we can download the complete help files relevant to the version we need., this can be accessed from the Autodesk Product and Updates location within the Autodesk website.

Help & Tutorial Data Files
Download the complete Inventor 2012 Help System and tutorial files referenced in the 2012 Tutorials.

Previous Releases

Autodesk Inventor 2010 Documentation

Autodesk Inventor 2009 Documentation

In case you want to access the current version – Click Here

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Autodesk Inventor Tips and Tricks

sunithbabu — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:56:08 +0000

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Accessing the student community site from Autodesk Inventor 2012

sunithbabu — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:38:24 +0000

If you are a student, click Engineers Rule.ORG on the Get Started tab to enter the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community. This website provides free Autodesk design software and resources to help students get started in their careers and become leaders in the next generation of design. But how to access the website from Autodesk Inventor Software ?

The Get Started tab is available at all times within Autodesk Inventor

Click on Get Started Tab > Community Panel > Engineers Rule.ORG (See the image below for better understanding)

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Making a Sketch Active for Editing

sunithbabu — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:36:30 +0000

Inventor Tips:

To save a file, you need to exit the sketch mode. However, if you want to make changes to the saved sketches, you need to make the sketch active for editing.,

Let’s see how we can make the sketch active.

Identify the sketch1 in the model browser bar to the left of the Autodesk Inventor Screen, see below. Now right-click and select edit sketch or double click the browser sketch1 icon (if you are editing the first sketch in Inventor)

Note: In case you need to rename the sketch1 to a name that you wish, click on the sketch1 and again click and this allows you to rename the sketch1

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Inventor Add-in: Center Point Rectangle

sunithbabu — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:22:12 +0000

A Post from Mark Flayler

Manufacturing Blog

It’s in AutoCAD Mechanical, it’s in most other 3D modeling programs…so why isn’t it in Inventor? Why do packages of hot dogs come in 10 and buns in 8? It’s one of the great mysteries of the Inventor user base. Well Inventor user Brian Hall finally got tired of not getting an answer from Autodesk on this one. Not the hot dogs, the rectangle one.

This tool set has four distinct rectangle drawing tools that are used inside the sketch environment for part files, assembly files, and drawing files. They are located on a

separate ribbon panel called “Rectangles” on the “Sketch” ribbon tab. They are as follows: Center Point Rectangle (default displayed button):

This rectangle tool draws a rectangle about the origin of where the user picks. It constrains the rectangle by adding a vertical and horizontal alignment constraint to

one of the vertical and horizontal lines respectively as well as a coincident constraint to the geometry that the user selects. If no geometry is selected, then only the vertical and horizontal alignment constraints will be used.

Diagonal Center Point Rectangle: This rectangle tool draws a rectangle about the origin of where the user picks and adds a diagonal line that goes from one corner to the opposite corner with a sketch point constrained to the mid-point of the diagonal line. By virtue of the diagonal line, the rectangle relationship to the origin is maintained, but if the user selects existing geometry then a coincident constraint is added to the origin sketch point and selected geometry.

Horizontal Mid-Point Rectangle: This rectangle tool draws a rectangle that eminates from the mid-point of one of the horizontal lines of the rectangle. A sketch point is then added and constrained to that line’s mid-point. If the user selects existing geometry, then the sketch point is constrained to the existing geometry accordingly.

Vertical Mid-Point Rectangle: This rectangle tool draws a rectangle that eminates from the mid-point of one of the vertical lines of the rectangle. A sketch point is then added and constrained to that line’s mid-point. If the user selects existing geometry, then the sketch point is constrained to the existing geometry accordingly.

This add-in does not support the classic interface by design.

Download Qube-It Rectangle Tools R2

This add-in works beautifully on Inventor 2010 and 2011 assuming you have all the service packs and microsoft hotfixes installed including .NET updates. I find myself using this tool quite a bit and every time I show sketching now in Inventor, I get asked what it is and where do I get it. Here is a video from the programmer himself. Enjoy! Now to work on that pesky hot dog conundrum.

http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/posting.php?mode=edit&f=34&p=78891

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Exploring the View Cube

sunithbabu — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:38:32 +0000

The View Cube, is a 3D tool that allows you to rotate the view. Here are some viewing options:

•If you click a face, edge, or corner of the cube, the view rotates so the selection is perpendicular to the screen.

•If you click and drag an edge, the view rotates around the parallel axis.

•If you click and drag a corner, you can rotate the model freely.

•If you click a face to have an orthogonal view, additional controls will display when your mouse pointer is near the cube.

• The four arrowheads pointed at the cube rotate the view to the next face.

• The arc arrows rotate the view by 90 degrees in the current plane.

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Adding Automatic Tangents with Line Tool

sunithbabu — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:14:35 +0000

Tips:When you are adding tangent line to a circle or arc, one can add the tangent constraint automatically.

To execute the above process, start the line tool and click and hold on the circle or arc on which you are adding the tangent line, during this time, you will see a tangent glyph, now you can drag the line segment out to the length and desired direction.

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Inventor Tips on Sketch Editing

sunithbabu — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:01:44 +0000

When you sketch in any CAD Tool, there are situations when you have to edit the sketch which may include Trim, Extend or even Split., in Inventor these can be performed with easy.

Let’s say you are performing a trim operation and immediately go ahead with extend or even split operation simultaneously. That’s more easy now

Click on Trim Command from Sketch > Modify > Trim (x), once you carry out the trim operation, you can simultaneously carry out the extend and split operation without clicking on the extend or split command. See a video below for more details . . .

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sunithbabu — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:54:39 +0000

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Task Scheduler in Inventor 2011

sunithbabu — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:17:54 +0000

Task Scheduler is a separate application that performs automated tasks and acts as a batch processor in Autodesk Inventor and other applications.

To open Task Scheduler, click Start >Programs >Autodesk > Autodesk Inventor (version) > Tools > Task Scheduler.

Use the Task Scheduler to organize and define one or more time-consuming tasks from different types of programs, and execute the tasks in a specified order at a time that you schedule. Close the Task Scheduler window, and the tasks you scheduled run at the specified time.

Task Scheduler contains predefined task managers for executing common tasks, and a custom task manager for defining your own tasks. A Sequential Task manager is provided to set up multiple predefined and custom tasks. The Migrate Files task is used to migrate files directly from the Vault.

In addition to Custom and Sequential tasks, the predefined tasks include:

Migrate Files
Update Design
Publish DWF Files
Print Files
Import and Export Files
Check In to Vault
Check Out from Vault
Get Latest Version from Vault
Convert IDW to DWG
Refresh Standard Components in Assemblies

Watch out for more info in the next article on Task Scheduler.

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