Autodesk Inventor ® TM Routed Systems Suite 2008
Add the power of 3D with the company that brought you 2D. Autodesk Inventor™ software products are the best choice for AutoCAD software users who want to add the power of 3D without compromising investments in 2D design data and AutoCAD technical expertise. ® ® Contents Digital Prototypes......................................... 3 Tube and Pipe Design................................... 5 Cable and Harness Design..........................8 AutoCAD Integration.................................
Digital Prototypes Make sure designs work before spending money on prototypes or manufacturing tooling. With Inventor, 3D digital prototypes are complete and accurate models that enable users to check design and engineering decisions as they work, minimize the need for physical prototypes, and avoid costly changes when the design is sent to manufacturing.
Digital Prototypes Interference Analysis and Contact Detection Reduce costly errors and improve manufacturability by testing assembly function within Inventor. • Test part interference with automated tools, allowing the parts to be measured for fit. • Drag a component to collide with another component, and validate that the reaction is correct. • Isolate selected components in a contact set to determine whether the components behave in the expected mechanical motion.
Tube and Pipe Design Inventor enables users to reduce the time required to design tubing, piping, and flexible hose. The rules-based routing tools in Inventor select the appropriate fittings and help ensure that pipe runs comply with design rules for minimum and maximum length, round-off increments, and bend radius. Flexible Hose Make sure flexible hose and fittings fit properly using a 3D digital prototype that drives accurate manufacturing documentation.
Tube and Pipe Design Rigid Tube Routing Quickly create rigid tubes with superior control over the shape, bend angles, and radii. Create rigid tubes with an arbitrary number of bends and variable custom bend angles and radii. The radius and rotation handles offer greater control over the shape of a rigid tube. Fittings Library Improve quality, easily organize parts, and eliminate tedious searching with automatic placement of the correct part from an extensive library of piping components.
Tube and Pipe Design ISOGEN PCF Output Use the piping component file (PCF) output to reduce errors by automatically creating isometric pipe drawings with third-party applications. Create PCF files to use as an interface to the industrystandard Alias ISOGEN software. Based on the PCF input file, ISOGEN creates a DXF™ or DWG file containing the isometric drawings.
Cable and Harness Design Use Inventor to design cable and harness runs— including ribbon cables—and save time and resources. Inventor streamlines cable and harness design by using wire list information imported from schematic design packages, including AutoCAD® Electrical software. Intelligent Wire Creation Simplify the design of electrical wiring, and reduce manufacturing errors by maintaining consistency between the electrical schematic and 3D wire harness design.
Cable and Harness Design Wire Routing Use automated and manual wire routing options to quickly route thousands of wires while maintaining complete control over the paths of critical conductors. Wires are inserted into segments using three routing functions: • Manual routing requires explicit selection of a wire’s path. • Interactive routing requires selecting the start and end points of the routed path to let an algorithm choose the shortest path.
Cable and Harness Design Virtual Parts Generate accurate bill of materials data for better purchasing and cost forecasting. Select harness elements, such as clips, terminals, looms, and labels, and insert them into the cable design as nongraphical parts that are fully integrated with the Inventor BOM. Bundle Diameter Calculation Use 3D visual inspection and interference detection tools to accurately determine whether wire bundles will fit correctly in the assembly.
Cable and Harness Design Wire Length Calculation Automatically calculate highly accurate wire lengths that update as the design changes. Length compensation factors enable fine control over wire and cable lengths, reducing scrap and manufacturing delays caused by wires that are too short or too long. What’s more, the Embedded Length feature provides the ability to account for the amount of wire that is used beyond the point where the wire enters a connector or splice.
AutoCAD Integration Only Inventor provides DWG TrueConnect, delivering industry-leading integration of 2D and 3D design through direct read and write of the DWG format with full associativity to the 3D design data without translators. Autodesk Inventor drawings saved as DWG files provide view, plot, and measure with exceptional visual fidelity for improved sharing of manufacturing information. With DWG Read, users save valuable time by opening AutoCAD designs in Inventor.
AutoCAD Integration DWG Save Integrate DWG technology into the 3D design workflow to take advantage of existing skills; easily combine part, assembly, and schematic drawings data; and streamline communication with suppliers and partners who rely on DWG technology. This feature stores Inventor drawing views in the DWG file to provide view, plot, and measure in AutoCAD with complete visual fidelity, while preserving fully associative drawing updates.
Part Design With the power of functional design, Inventor helps you focus on the functional requirements of a design to drive the creation of 3D models and create competitive product designs in less time. Fully associative models help ensure that any changes to the part design are automatically reflected in the assembly and drawing files, so that the complete design and manufacturing documentation is accurate and current.
Part Design Feature Generator Drag-and-drop shape libraries accelerate the transition to 3D modeling by making it easy and fast to create and edit parts. Use the feature generator to create fully editable Inventor parts by simply dragging shapes from a library of standard geometry. Associativity Take advantage of automatic propagation of design changes to reduce errors and accelerate time to market.
Part Design Advanced Shape Description Create a wide range of complex geometries by easily combining solids and surfaces. Inventor gives users precise control of shape characteristics, such as tangency and continuity. Advanced modeling tools include Loft to a Point, N-Sided Patch, Sweep Normal to Surface, Area Loft, Centerline Loft, G2 Continuous Fillets, Full Round Fillets, and Face-toFace Fillets.
Part Design Import from Autodesk AliasStudio Use concept design data from Autodesk® AliasStudio™ software to reduce the time required to complete the 3D product design. Reuse curve and surface data from AliasStudio using the DWG import and export tools that are built into the two products. Manipulate imported surfaces in the Inventor construction environment, and then use the Sculpt tool to quickly incorporate them into the 3D part model.
Assembly Design Inventor combines functional design with easy-to-use assembly tools so users can be sure that every part and component in an assembly design fits correctly. Validate interference and mass properties to produce quality products the first time around. Inventor provides powerful tools to control and manage data created by large assembly designs so users working on large assemblies can quickly complete their part of the design.
Assembly Design Large Assembly Management Realize the benefits of 3D design when developing very large assemblies. With Level of Detail (LOD) representations, users have full control over how much information to load when working with large assemblies. The user can control memory consumption by suppressing components. A large assembly “capacity meter” provides a visual indication of how much memory is available.
Assembly Design Design Views Boost productivity when working with large, complex assemblies by creating views that let users focus on just the assembly components needed for the current task. Quickly isolate specific parts or subassemblies, and capture these views for use by any member of the design team—so everyone can see what they need, when they need it.
Assembly Design Supplier Content Center Reduce the time and effort required to incorporate standard components into designs. The Supplier Content Center provides web-based access to component models from more than 100 leading manufacturers. The simple-to-use browser provides quick and easy access to models in native Inventor format. And it’s fully integrated with the Autodesk Inventor Content Center.
Design and Manufacturing Documentation Inventor takes the production of manufacturing and documentation to the next level of productivity through automatic generation of drawing views and comprehensive tools for finishing drawings. The Drawing Manager in Inventor supports all the major drawing standards, dramatically reducing the time required to complete standards-compliant drawings to help deliver the design in less time.
Design and Manufacturing Documentation Bill of Materials Provide earlier visibility into accurate component lists to improve costing and sourcing decisions. Simplify release to manufacturing with accurate engineering BOM data. The BOM is a single source for managing the assembly and subassembly structure of purchased and nonpurchased parts, including virtual components.
Collaboration and Communication Inventor enables the efficient and secure exchange of design data to support collaboration between different engineering contributors, including industrial design, product design, and manufacturing. Improve communication throughout your supply chain while maintaining control and security of proprietary design data.
Collaboration and Communication Autodesk Productstream Help ensure that your company’s designs are complete, accurate, approved, and released to manufacturing in a timely and effective manner. Autodesk® Productstream® software automates the release management process by managing engineering changes and BOMs while the engineering department maintains control of the design data. Construction Environment Reduce the time required to inspect and repair customer data files.
Collaboration and Communication AEC Exchange The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) Exchange tool creates and publishes simplified 3D representations, intelligent connection points, and additional information in native file formats for AutoCAD® MEP software. Users can also export 3D geometry to AutoCAD® Architecture, Revit®-based software, and AutoCAD software.
Customization and Automation Make the most of your investment in 3D by adapting Inventor to support your company’s design standards and engineering processes. Increase speed and productivity with configurable styles so drawings conform to standards. Publish custom components in the Content Center to be sure that designers use appropriate components in their designs, and create custom tools to streamline frequently used procedures.
Customization and Automation Content Center Publishing Tools Quickly prepare and publish large catalogs of library parts. The Content Center’s publishing tools include an editing environment and batch processing of large data sets to streamline the process of preparing and publishing company parts as well as vendor catalogs. It also includes tools to set up intelligent part catalogs. Task Scheduler Increase productivity by automating repetitive and nonproductive tasks.
Learning Resources Inventor offers a range of learning and reference resources to help users maintain skills and quickly make the most of the 3D design environment. Learn new skills, look up information about a procedure or tool, or get the latest tips and tricks needed to stay productive. e-Learning Accelerate learning through flexible access to tutorials and best practices. A valuable component of Autodesk® Subscription, e-Learning provides a continually expanding curriculum of short training exercises.
Autodesk Manufacturing Never before have design applications and data management tools come together to simplify the way manufacturers design products and drive them through the manufacturing process. Autodesk provides a complete, interoperable line of industry-leading software integrated with a worldwide network of services and partners.
