AUGIWorld Magazine - May/June 2008 - (Page 6)

The latest release of Autodesk Inventor brings numerous new features and enhancements—all designed to make life easier for professionals in manufacturing Autodesk Inventor® 2009 brings a lot of good things to the table with new features and improvements on existing features. Feature additions and improvements are widespread in every aspect of Inventor. This release offers enhancements and new features that are designed to make life easier for the Inventor user while improving productivity and large assembly performance. Inventor 2009 brings full 64-bit computing to XP64 or 64 bit Vista operating systems, supporting much-needed additional application memory required for extremely large assembly design and rendering. While this release of Autodesk Inventor introduces many new features, it also delivers on promises of improvements to existing commands. Autodesk has listened to existing users and added many AUGI Wish List items to the new release. In fact, there are so many new and improved commands in Inventor 2009 that it will be impossible to list them all in this current issue. As a result, here are some of my favorites. ment, starting with sketches. Sketching has been enhanced by moving coincident constraints to the sketch itself. Coincident constraints are now indicated by a square glyph at each constrained intersection. This reduces the number of visible constraint glyphs when you do a Show All Constraints command. The constraint glyphs have been redone as well with more visible and better defined symbols. When you move your cursor over one of the glyphs, the related geometry will highlight, showing relationships. Another handy tool added to Inventor 2009 is the ability to show degrees of freedom within sketch geometry that is under-constrained. Simply right-click within the active sketch and select Show All Degrees of Freedom. The red arrows indicating degrees of freedom show the directions in which the geometry may be dragged. Figure 3: Geometry Aligned Text option Figure 4: Constraint Inference and Persistence icons Sketching There are many changes and enhancements within the Part Modeling environ- Figure 2: Degrees of Freedom in sketches persistence. You may now choose which constraints to infer during sketching. Last on the list for the sketch environment are enhancements to the Trim and Extend commands. Hold down the Ctrl key while trimming or extending and you will be prompted to select the boundary geometry needed for the Trim or Extend by Boundaries operation. Without the Ctrl key option, Trim and Extend behave as previously designed. Figure 1: New constraint indicators in the sketch environment Another sketch tool is Geometry Aligned Text. This tool allows text to follow lines, arcs, and circles. There are two new icons at the top of your Inventor 2009 screen: Constraint Inference and Persistence. These two icons provide powerful control of inference and What’s new in part modeling? Get a grip on editing with the new graphic preview in the 3D Grip command. When 3D Grips are activated on an Inventor part, the entire part remains as a transparent object. w w w. A U G I . c o m 6 http://www.augi.com

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AUGIWorld Magazine - May/June 2008

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