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Inventor 2008 - What’s New

Inventor 2008 - What’s New. AMS CAD Solutions http://www.amsystems.com. Inventor 2008. Bringing 2D and 3D Together Learning and Adoption Everyday Drawing Productivity Sheet Metal for Manufacturing Integrated Simulation and Analysis More Design Power. Bringing 2D & 3D Together.

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Inventor 2008 - What’s New

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  1. Inventor 2008 - What’s New AMS CAD Solutions http://www.amsystems.com

  2. Inventor 2008 • Bringing 2D and 3D Together • Learning and Adoption • Everyday Drawing Productivity • Sheet Metal for Manufacturing • Integrated Simulation and Analysis • More Design Power

  3. Bringing 2D & 3D Together • Customer Needs • Share Inventor drawings with AutoCAD users • Open AutoCAD drawings in Inventor • Reuse AutoCAD geometry in Inventor • Update existing 2D projects using 3D design • Communicate with a single file

  4. Create Inventor Drawing Views • View, Plot and Measure existing DWG files • No knowledge of AutoCAD required • Copy & paste into Inventor models Save DWG • View, Plot and Measure in AutoCAD • Exceptional Visual Fidelity • Fully associative to the 3D model Open DWG Existing AutoCAD Drawing File Direct DWG Save and DWG Open DWGTrueConnect

  5. Use 3D on Upgrade Projects Redesign sub-assemblies in 3D Generate new part and assembly drawings from the 3D model Save in DWG Insert into EXISTING AutoCAD drawings

  6. Communicate with a Single File • Combine part and assembly drawings with schematics • Add hydraulic layouts to mechanical drawing package • Include equipment views within architectural layouts

  7. Learning and Adoption • Customer Needs • Reduce learning curve for sketch based design • Familiar, easy to learn user interface • Successful migration of MDT models

  8. Sketch & Constraint Enhancements • Simplified Constraint Tools • Reduced screen clutter • New Reference constraint • More visibility control • Remaining constraints required • Sketch Edit Tools • Move, rotate scale and stretch sketch entities while preserving unaffected constraints • Geometry formatting • Change color, line type, and line weight of sketch entities

  9. Autodesk Application Consistency • Updated User Interface • High Resolution Icons • XP Style Controls • Productivity Tools • Command Aliases • Repeat last command • Tool Tips and Status Text Update • Improved Shortcut/Alias management

  10. MDT Compatibility • Accurate translation of • AMBEND Features • AMCOMBINE multi-body features • AMREVOLVE with terminations • Insert and Midpoint constraints • Feature color • Hidden Inventor views created for • Base Section Views • Deleted Parent Views

  11. Everyday Drawing Productivity • Customer Needs • Ability to dimension using Isometric views • More control over detail views and revision tables • Improved standards compliance

  12. Drawing Manager • Drawing View Enhancements • Dimension Isometric Views • Cross hatch in isometric views • Additional fence and cutout options • Circular call-outs for detail views • Section views support model sketch for cut-line • Hidden-lines in shaded views • Individual cut inheritance • View level visibility suppression

  13. Drawing Manager – 2 • Tables • Revision table styles • Sheet level revision control • Include iProperties in title blocks • Standards Support • ESKD arrowheads • Linear dim thread note • Radial dim text wrapping

  14. Drawing Manager – 3 • Other • Crosshatch by material style • NPT & tapered hole notes • Part mass in title block • BOM/Parts List Variables

  15. Sheet Metal for Manufacturing • Customer Needs • Design sheet metal parts that can be cost effectively manufactured • Generate manufacturing drawings with bend and punch information • Configurable DXF output for manufacturing equipment

  16. Sheet Metal – Modeling • Improved Sheet Metal Tools • Support for multiple flanges in a single operation • Better control over corner conditions • Support for cut across bend • Flat Pattern Creation • Separate browser trees for folded and unfolded model • Add features in flat pattern • Alternate punch representations

  17. Sheet Metal – Punch Representation • Table driven punch tools • Define punches using table driven iFeatures • Capture punch parameters • Punch ID • Punch Depth • Alternate Punch Reps. • Define sketch basedalternate representations

  18. Sheet Metal – Documentation • Manufacturing Drawings • Recover bend direction, angle and radius from the 3D model • Create bend and punch tables from the 3D model • Control of bend line styles • DXF Output • Layer Mapping and Export Control • Spline Simplification • XML File Customization

  19. Integrated Simulation and Analysis • Customer Needs • Use simulation to quickly verify design decisions • Improve FEA analysis with accurate loads and forces • Efficient analysis of thin walled parts

  20. Dynamic Simulation • Automatic translation of assembly constraints into joints • Export Motion Loads for stress analysis over multiple time steps • Persist trace curves in sketches

  21. Stress Analysis • Feature Suppression for Stress Analysis • Multiple Time Step Analysis • Thin Wall Stress Analysis

  22. More Design Power • Customer Needs • Shape design for hydraulic & pneumatic components • Use skeletal design techniques on complex designs • Quickly create welded frame assemblies for manufacturing • Include ribbon cables in the 3D digital prototype • Design with flanged and butt welded pipe styles • Work with imported design data

  23. Shape Design • Modeling Enhancements • Area Loft • New Bend Feature • Split Face with 3D Curve • Associative cross part surface copy

  24. Shape Design - 2 • Curve Enhancements • 2D/3D Split Curve • 3D Helix Curve • Associative project cut edges • Analysis Enhancements • Improved Cross Section Analysis • Mean/Max Analysis • MOI in cross section • Area and MOI in measure

  25. Skeletal Assembly Design • Derive Workflow Enhancements • Improved user interface • Reduced update overhead • Parameter Linking • Selective control of linked parameters • Create links between any model type

  26. Frame Design • View and manage cut treatments • Restructure frame assemblies to match manufacturing sequence • Substitute frame sections with different standard, type or size

  27. Ribbon Cable Design • Connector authoring with configurable pin patterns • Create and route ribbon cables with twists and folds • Nailboard creation

  28. Flanged and Welded Pipe Styles • Flanged pipe styles with full support for gaskets • Butt welded pipe styles with weld gaps • Improved authoring of customer specific fittings libraries • Improved Isogen Export

  29. Import – Export • Import • Import curves and surfaces from AliasStudio • Import 3D points to a sketch • Automatic Healing • Performance and optimization • Export • Surfaces to STEP • Face & feature color

  30. Using Imported Data • Construction Environment • Simplified data transfer to andfrom Construction Environment • Composite Data • Cross part promote • Move data between features • 3D intersection curve • Drawing Creation • Performance with STEP files • Drawing views of ‘bad’ data • Slice option for zero-depth sections of surfaces

  31. DWF Design Review • More DWF Publishing Options • Animations and assembly instructions • Positional representations, design views and active LOD • Structured or Parts-only BOM • FEA results • Markup Workflow • Round-trip 2D DWF markups to Inventor and back to DWF again • Improved Security • Password protection • Disable measure and print

  32. AUGI Wish List • # 001 July 2006 • #1 Design Doctor should Highlight Reference Owners • #2 Improved Content Center Performance • #9 Multi-component placement • #10 Show bend direction on bend lines in the flat pattern • # 002 November 2006 • #4 Isometric dimensioning • #6 Copy and Paste from AutoCAD • #9 Tapered thread holes

  33. And much more.. • Usability Enhancements • Infer iMates from Assembly Constraints • File Save As • Productivity enhancements for Inventor Studio • Improved File Refresh and Delayed Migration on File Open • Improved Design Accelerators for chain drives, shafts, springs • Improved Installation and Help System • Platforms • Support for Windows Vista

  34. DWG TrueConnect Read and write DWG 100% Fidelity New update workflows Sketch and UI Updates Sketch / constraint usability AutoCAD consistency MDT translation enhancements Sheet Metal Sheet metal features with post fold features Bend & punch tables for mfg. documentation Sheet metal FEA (AIP) Shape & Assembly Design New Area Loft and Bend features Frame – end treatments Skeletal modeling enhancements Drawing Manager Isometric view dimensions Enhanced revision tables More Standards Inventor Professional Ribbon Cables Flanged & welded pipe styles Dynamic Simulation Enhancements DWF Design Review Inventor 2008 - Highlights

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