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Technical What’s New
Autodesk Inventor 8
Wizard to Copy iLogic Designs
The new version provides a wizard to copy an Inventor
iLogic template project. Use an Inventor iLogic project
as a template to produce design variations. Embed
design copies as subassemblies in larger designs, or
as copies of a unique and complete product definition
and save considerable time compared to the previous
method.
Features include:
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Selects linked documents automatically.
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Copy files to a new or existing project destination.
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Copy Inventor and non-Inventor files.
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Rename file copies by defining a naming prefix, suffix,
or both, that can be applied globally to the copy set.
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Set the Part Number (iProperty) of the copy
destination file the same as the copy file name.
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Remove iLogic rules from Inventor documents
included in the copied set.
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Use even if the documents do not involve iLogic rules.
Custom User Interface Forms to Automate
Rules-Based Design
Design your own user interface using drag and drop
methods in a fraction of the time it took to use
programming methods. Create a custom form to drive
the model. You can use the controls in the forms to
drive changes to an existing design. Either save form
definitions with a design document, or store them for
use across multiple documents. Create and connect the
custom user interface to the parameters, properties,
and rules of an Inventor part, assembly, or drawing
document.
Impressing Views Using New Ray Tracing
Option
Ray tracing is added as a view setting option for the
Realistic (default: enabled) and Monochrome (default:
disabled) visual styles. If you select Realistic, the
display refreshes using ray tracing. You can interrupt
the process with the Orbit command, after which the
display refreshes with ray tracing again.