Autodesk Inventor Suite 2008, Non Channel, 1 user, English 52712-091462-9400 User Manual
Product codes
52712-091462-9400
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.
Styles
Work faster by instantly changing the formatting of
an entire document, and help ensure consistency
with your company standards:
• Styles are combinations of formatting characteristics
an entire document, and help ensure consistency
with your company standards:
• Styles are combinations of formatting characteristics
such as font size, color, standards, and linetype.
• Styles are easily named and stored as a template.
• Styles are used to control all aspects of drawing
• Styles are used to control all aspects of drawing
formats.
• When users apply a style, all formatting
instructions in that style are applied at once.
• A set of common styles can be configured for use
by an entire project team.
Task Scheduler
Increase productivity by automating repetitive and
nonproductive tasks. The Inventor Task Scheduler
enables users to schedule single or multiple (batch)
automated tasks such as
nonproductive tasks. The Inventor Task Scheduler
enables users to schedule single or multiple (batch)
automated tasks such as
• AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, and Inventor
file migrations
• Assembly and drawing updates
• Print jobs
• IGES and STEP import and export
• DWF publishing
• DWG import and export
• User-defined tasks
• File upload and check-in to the Vault
• File check-out and download from the Vault
• Print jobs
• IGES and STEP import and export
• DWF publishing
• DWG import and export
• User-defined tasks
• File upload and check-in to the Vault
• File check-out and download from the Vault
Open API
Inventor includes a well-documented API to help
automate specialized workflows. Increase the
productivity of design and detailing operations to
accommodate the unique needs of each company.
Use the Drawing Manager API to automate
commonly used detailing workflows and reduce
the time to complete production drawings. The
Drawing Manager API provides full access to the
drawing view geometry and commands for creating
detail views, dimensions, and annotation entities.
It includes tools to control selection filters and
extend the Inventor data model by adding custom
attributes to Drawing Manager objects.
automate specialized workflows. Increase the
productivity of design and detailing operations to
accommodate the unique needs of each company.
Use the Drawing Manager API to automate
commonly used detailing workflows and reduce
the time to complete production drawings. The
Drawing Manager API provides full access to the
drawing view geometry and commands for creating
detail views, dimensions, and annotation entities.
It includes tools to control selection filters and
extend the Inventor data model by adding custom
attributes to Drawing Manager objects.
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.
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.
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