Technical What’s New Autodesk Inventor ® ® 2010 Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems Autodesk Inventor Simulation Autodesk Inventor Tooling Autodesk Inventor Professional
Technical What’s New Contents Welcome to Inventor 2010 �����������������������������������2 Assembly Management ���������������������������������������8 Plastic Part Design ����������������������������������������������3 User-defined Assembly Folders ���������������������������������������8 Multibody Parts �������������������������������������������������������������������3 Enhanced Assembly Restructure �����������������������������������8 Inserting Components in Parts ������������������������������
Technical What’s New Welcome to the Autodesk® Inventor® 2010 software product line The Autodesk® Inventor® 2010 software product line offers many significant usability and productivity enhancements that will benefit users who need to create, optimize, and validate designs involving plastic parts, sheet metal parts, and large assemblies. Major areas of focus in this release include the following.
Technical What’s New Plastic Part Design Autodesk Inventor software offers plastic parts designers maximum flexibility by combining native Inventor geometry with exterior surface models designed in Autodesk® Alias software family of products or other Industrial design applications. In addition, Autodesk Inventor software helps automate key aspects of the design of injection molds for plastic parts.
Technical What’s New Tooling Design Layout Design and Simulation Mold Design Autodesk Inventor software includes easy-to-use mold design features that work directly from Inventor 3D models of plastic parts to simplify part preparation, patch and parting surface creation, automated core and cavity design, runner and gate design, and cooling channel design. Full associativity to the Inventor digital model helps ensure that any changes to the model are automatically reflected in the mold design.
Technical What’s New Make Part and Make Components Create your layout and investigate your design. When you are satisfied with the design state, use the Make Part or Make Components workflow to derive sketch block instances into part or assembly file component instances. The component instances remain associated with the block instances and layout, so changes you make to the block definitions or layout are reflected in the part and assembly files.
Technical What’s New Solver Performance Autodesk Inventor 2010 software uses new solver technology to provide improved performance for complex assembly analysis and the exploration of multiple design variations in parametric studies. Interoperability Autodesk Inventor 2010 software simplifies interdisciplinary collaboration in the building sector with simplified exchange of 3D mechanical systems data between building systems suppliers and the building designers.
Technical What’s New AEC Exchange The new Export Building Components command replaces the ABS Catalog Editor command in AEC Exchange. This command saves model geometry, properties, and connectors to an Autodesk Design Package (.adsk) file. The .adsk file can be imported into other Autodesk applications such as Autodesk Revit MEP or AutoCAD MEP software. When creating Duct and Pipe connectors, there are new fields for System Type and Properties.
Technical What’s New Improved Loft Usability The process for creating lofted features involves multiple selections to define the section profiles and guide paths. You can use the dialog box to switch between selecting the profile sections, rails, and centerlines, or you can right-click and use the context menu. Previous releases of Autodesk Inventor did not have a context menu for the loft command. You returned to the dialog box each time you changed the selection type.
Technical What’s New Assembly Productivity Tools Twelve tools that enhance assembly productivity are included with this release. These tools were previously available as an optional install. • Rename Browser Nodes—This tool provides key enhancements and the ability to identify all component nodes within an assembly using one of three naming schemes: filename, part number, or the default.
Technical What’s New Bend Order Annotation Features containing bends are created in a logical sequence during the design of a folded part model; however, it is rare that the fabrication of those bends during manufacturing will follow the same sequence. The Bend Order feature provides a means of specifying a desired fabrication sequence to bends (including Cosmetic Centerlines) identified in the flat pattern.
Technical What’s New Drawing Manager Design Accelerators Aligned Section Views Generate align section views on views where the section line consist of two or more line segments. Aligned or Projected methods of aligned section views are controlled in the Section View dialog box. Drum Cam Generator A new Drum Cam Generator was added to the Design Accelerator design tools. It is located in the Design tab in Assemblies.
Technical What’s New Bill of Materials Licensing, Installation, and Deployment Assembly Level Storage of Custom Columns Custom columns are now stored in the assembly file, making it much easier to share custom BOM data.
Technical What’s New MDT Translator Improvements Improved translation of MDT DWG™ files into Inventor drawing files including: • Option to convert all Autodesk® Mechanical annotation drawing symbols to Inventor sketch symbols • Option to map Autodesk Mechanical datum IDs, FCF, and surface texture symbols to native Inventor symbols • Thread representation improved by replacing thread representations with Inventor thread feature edges • Enhanced feature pattern and drawing dimension translation iFeature Enh
