Datasheet

Cable Connector Authoring
Authoring of cable connectors has been added to the
Content Center publishing tools so users can defi ne
cable connectors with confi gurable pin patterns and
wire direction.
Connector Placement on Nailboard Drawings
With Inventor 2008 users can quickly create nailboard
drawings with connector depictions for manufacturing.
Simply defi ne the default off set, orientation, and
rendering style to be used using the Nailboard settings.
Inventor uses these values to automatically add the
connectors to the drawing.
Cable and Harness Performance/Capacity
Improved performance when creating or deleting
multiple sweep features
Improved performance and capacity for centerline
recovery in the drawing environment
Import Export
Import
New import capabilities are provided for
Import 3D surface data from AliasStudio
using DWG fi les
Import 3D points to a sketch
• Automatic Healing
Performance and optimization
Export
Color for Solids and Surfaces
This enhancement provides the ability to control color
overrides for CE solids, surfaces, and part
modeling surfaces.
New export capabilities
Surfaces to STEP
Face and feature color
Construction Environment
The Construction Environment is enhanced to simplify
the analysis and repair of problems encountered
in imported data and to enable workfl ows using
surfaces and wire geometry.
Enhancements include the following:
Construction Environment
• Simplifi ed data transfer to and from
Construction Environment
Composite Data
Cross part promote
Move data between features
3D intersection curve
Drawing Creation
Performance with STEP fi les
Drawing views of “bad” data
Slice components view
Inventor Studio
A variety of productivity enhancements have been
added to Inventor Studio. These include new positional
representation start states, measure command, most
recently used values, unit value retention, and
faster-to-specify input.
The improved scaling of diff use and bump maps, render
preview frame, alpha channel output for PNG formats,
and support for TIFF and GIF image formats provide
additional control over the fi nal render and output type.
Two new global lighting styles make it easier
to get realistic renders. And the Illustration output
render style provides the ability to create imagery
for technical documentation.
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Autodesk Inventor 2008
Technical What’s New