Inventor
by: John Evans
Presentation Enhancements S
omething wonderful happened around the year 2011. Autodesk introduced a new product called Autodesk Inventor® Publisher. That product brought a new way of exploding assemblies, as well as documenting these. It was fantastic, and gave everyone a nicer environment to deal with exploded view documentation—much nicer than the archaic Presentation environment in Inventor. Unfortunately, Publisher was a bit of a resource hog, and while rumors of its demise are still circulating, the product is still selling on the shelf; Autodesk, always guarded with its plans, is only willing to say that there is no definitive plan to stop it. Additionally, true to Autodesk’s statement that Autodesk Inventor is being continued into the future as their go-to mechanical engineering Figure 1: Inventor 2016 Presentation environment CAD software, 2015 and 2016 While these enhancements are not a replacement releases have delivered a very nice set for Publisher, they do make creating exploded of enhancements. One of these is the Presentation views much simpler and smoother. The following is environment, the topic of this article. a list of the changes and a few of my observations.
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