Mastering Autodesk Inventor’s sketching environment is all about mastering Constraints. And mastering Constraints is all about mastering Constraint Inference and Constraint Persistence.
If you want to create a copy of an design , you also need to copy all the Sub Assembly and Part files (Components) that go with it. And that’s not all. If you are copying files within a Project, you will also need to re-name all the components, otherwise Inventor may find the wrong version of the component that you intended to be used in the new Assembly. And that’s not all! An Assembly file contains is a list of Hyperlinks to other Assembly and part files. If you copy, move and rename all the sub components of an Assembly, you will also need to repair all those Internal Hyperlinks.
Find out how to use Autodesk Inventor's Level of Detail Representations to create drawings of large Assemblies. And find out when not to!
Are you struggling to include Item Balloons or Parts lists in Drawings from your Large Autodesk Inventor Assemblies? This tip could be what you need to stop you banging your head of your desk with frustration!
