Inventor Publisher 2012: Essentials

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Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Workflow Concept .................................................................................................................................. 2 Inventor Publisher Document and User Interface .................................................................................. 3 Importing 3D CAD Data ........................................................................................................................... 4 Specify the Publish Area ......................................................................................................................... 6 Creating a Storyboard ............................................................................................................................. 8 Create a Storyboard containing Exploded views .................................................................................... 9 Copy/Cut/Paste Snapshots within a Storyboard .................................................................................. 10 Storyboard Controls .............................................................................................................................. 11 Apply changes to more than one Snapshot .......................................................................................... 12 Using Multiple Storyboards .................................................................................................................. 14 Move ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Manual Explode .................................................................................................................................... 19 Trail Lines .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Annotation ............................................................................................................................................ 22 Annotation ............................................................................................................................................ 22 Arrows ................................................................................................................................................... 24 Labels .................................................................................................................................................... 26 Image .................................................................................................................................................... 27 Dimensions............................................................................................................................................ 28 Selection by Depth ................................................................................................................................ 29 Isolate Selection .................................................................................................................................... 29 Invert Selection ..................................................................................................................................... 30 Selection Sets ........................................................................................................................................ 30 Style....................................................................................................................................................... 31 Material................................................................................................................................................. 32 Background ........................................................................................................................................... 34 Section View.......................................................................................................................................... 36 Detail View ............................................................................................................................................ 38 Parts List ................................................................................................................................................ 40 Publish ................................................................................................................................................... 43 Publish to Image.................................................................................................................................... 44 Publish as Vector ................................................................................................................................... 46 Publish to Word .................................................................................................................................... 47 Publish to Powerpoint........................................................................................................................... 48 Publish to PDF ....................................................................................................................................... 49 Publish to Flash ..................................................................................................................................... 51 Publish using your own document Template ....................................................................................... 52 Word Template ................................................................................................................................. 52 Powerpoint Template ....................................................................................................................... 54 Flash Template .................................................................................................................................. 55 Associative link between Word and Publisher ..................................................................................... 56 Publish to DWF ...................................................................................................................................... 57 Publish to Video .................................................................................................................................... 59 AVI Codecs ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Publish to Mobile .................................................................................................................................. 61 Vault ...................................................................................................................................................... 62 System Requirements ........................................................................................................................... 63

Introduction Autodesk Inventor Publisher will help you revolutionize the way you create and deliver technical documentation – so you can improve your customer’s experience with your product while also improving your productivity and time to market.

Product documentation is a critical part of your ‘whole’ product – in fact it is often the first part of the product that users see. Product documentation ranges from assembly instructions, user manuals, operating procedures, and maintenance and repair instructions. In many cases regulations require you to provide documentation – not just for use and assembly, but increasingly for disassembly and end of life disposal.

Designed specifically for technical communications professionals, Autodesk Inventor Publisher software makes it easy for non-CAD users to work directly with 3D design models to create clear, accurate, and compelling product documentation.

Inventor Publisher allows you to deliver clearer and more comprehensive technical instructions to your customers, by moving from creating 2D text heavy documentation to creating 3D interactive documentation. Helping you deliver more impactful documentation that can give your customers a superior experience with products, increasing their satisfaction and loyalty.

Inventor Publisher can help do for your technical communications process what 3D and Inventor have done for your design and engineering processes.

Inventor Publisher lets you leverage your investment in 3D to extend the benefits Digital Prototyping beyond design and engineering to your technical communications teams, giving them a tool to work directly with 3D design models without the need to learn CAD software.

And with everyone working directly from the same 3D CAD model, you can reduce time to market by starting earlier and developing documentation concurrently with design, and finishing earlier because the technical illustrations in Inventor Publisher can update easily when the Inventor 3D design model changes.

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Workflow Concept Directly import 3D CAD data into Inventor Publisher.

Publisher provides a set of easy tools so technical communications teams – typically non-CAD users – can author the documentation they need by easily moving components and viewing angles, automatically exploding assemblies, adding annotations, sequences, full-motion animations, and more.

After authoring views and instructions, you need to be able to export the documentation in different formats, whether it’s on paper, online in video or Flash, even interacting with the 3D DWF model with Autodesk Design Review free viewer or 3D PDF file.

Designs often change, and when that happens the documentation has to change too. Inventor Publisher helps make change management easier. Inventor data is associative when the Inventor model changes, so you can update your documentation in one step, and then republish.

Workflow

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Import 3D CAD models. Updates are associative with changes to the Inventor model.

Create exactly the views, appearances and animation sequences you need.

Publish to a wide range of interactive, animated, or static formats.

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Inventor Publisher Document and User Interface An Inventor Publisher document is a *.ipb file format document.

Launching Inventor Publisher opens with a default .ipb document. An Inventor Publisher workspace is made up of several components.

• • • • • • • •

Quick Access toolbar Tabs & Panels Canvas Browser Graphics screen Storyboard Editor Right Click Context Menu View Cube Navigation bar

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Importing 3D CAD Data Autodesk Inventor Publisher is not a 3D modeling software. Every new document starts with an import/insert of supported CAD file format data. Certain file formats can be linked meaning that when the source file changes the Inventor Publisher document can be updated to reflect that change in source.

Supported CAD file formats: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Inventor Part (.ipt) Inventor Assembly (.iam) DWG DWF, DWFx CATIA V4 (model, session, exp,dlv3) CATIA V5 (CATPart, CATProduct, cgr) IGES (igs, ige, iges) ProE (asm, prt, g) SAT (sat) STEP (stp, ste, step) JT (jt) Parasolid (x_b, x_t) Solidworks (prt, sldprt, asm, sldasm) NX (prt)

Tech Tip: When you use Inventor models you have a huge advantage. Not only does the associative update capability make it fast and easy to update your documentation when the design changes, but you can also leverage more of the intelligence of your Inventor digital prototype because iProperty information imports into Publisher as well.

Tech Tip: You can import and work with multiple data sets in a single Publisher session, and the data sets may come from different CAD systems and have been saved in different file formats.

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Tech Tip: Faceting controls the edge tessellation display in Publisher. Smaller faceting values results in smoother edges but result in a large file size. Large faceting value results in coarse edges but smaller file size. If publishing a large or complex assembly to Mobile devices it is a good idea to specify Large facets.

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Specify the Publish Area The Publish Area defines the boundary, resolution, and print size of a published output file.

Publish Area is ON by default for a new document and the border is defined by the pixel size.

What you see in this area is what you get in the published output...

Tech Tip: The Publish area can be altered per snapshot, but you are most likely to keep this consistent throughout the storyboard, so set it now, before you start!

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To edit the Publish Area size or Hide the frame altogether, use the Right Mouse Button on the edit tool ...

Note: The publish formats 3D PDF, Vector, Mobile, and DWF currently do not use publish area option.

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Creating a Storyboard A Storyboard is a sequence of Snapshots. Each Snapshot containing a new view of the assembly. You may publish each Snapshot as an individual image, as a sequence of images to a document, or as an animation with smooth transitions between each Snapshot.

Note: Every new Inventor Publisher document opens with a default storyboard that contains one default snapshot.

Multiple storyboards can be created in a document. Nested storyboards can also be created.

Create a new snapshot using the toolbar or pop-up marking menu (use the Right Mouse Button) ...

Tech Tip: Use different storyboards to store favourite views, or to separate sequences used for 2D documents or 3D animation.

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Create a Storyboard containing Exploded views Explode Parts in the Assembly, or all Parts in a Sub-Assembly using the toolbar or pop-up marking menu (use the Right Mouse Button) ...

It is easy to create a Storyboard using “Explode All Parts” using “Apply and Save Snapshots” ...

Tech Tip: After creating a Storyboard and using these tools to take the assembly apart, use the “Reverse Storyboard” feature to create assembly instructions ...

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Copy/Cut/Paste Snapshots within a Storyboard The Right Mouse Button will open a menu allowing you to Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete etc....

You can Cut/Copy the Snapshot within the current Storyboard, or switch to another Storyboard and Paste the Snapshot there.

OR ... you can simply “Drag & Drop” the Snapshot using the into the new location in your current Storyboard using the Left Mouse Button ...

Select the snapshot you want to “move” ...

... and drop it in the desired location ...

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Storyboard Controls A description can be added to each snapshot and the timing and transition of each snapshot can be edited within the storyboard. Use the Right Mouse Button on Storyboard ....

These descriptions will appear in any document that you publish.

Any changes to the timing transitions will be reflected in the animation.

Extended controls are available using the “Timeline View�, use the Right Mouse Button on Document ...

You may now view, edit, cut, copy & paste all transitions including movement, visibility and camera positions.

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Apply changes to more than one Snapshot You can specify the scope of changes you wish to make by specifying which Snapshots are affected by the change required.

Select multiple Snapshots, then use the Right Mouse Button to define the scope of your edit ....

.... you can bulk change the background colour and appearance of the model, etc.. in this way.

Tech Tip: Sometimes the Auto Explode feature doesn’t get it quite right. In this example, the “Screw” has moved in the wrong direction ...

This happens in Step 3 of this sequence of Snapshots.

You can specify the scope of the number of Snapshots to edit and make this change of location in multiple Snapshots, and so correct the complete Storyboard.

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First select all affected Snapshots and set the Scope Edit feature to apply changes to all Selected Snapshots ....

Now use the move tool to adjust the “Screw� to the desired location ....

All selected Snapshots in the Storyboard will be updated automatically.

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Using Multiple Storyboards It can be useful to create “working views” or reference snapshots that are not actually part of the Storyboard you intend to Publish.

The way you create a sequence of snapshots for a paper document can also be different to an animation. You need extra transition shots in the animation, and you may annotate differently.

Use multiple storyboards in the document to improve the workflow.

In this example I have my main Assembly storyboard that I will publish as well as several others used to store working views and reference snapshots ….

The Assembly storyboard ….

I created a set of images where I had grouped selection sets to help me manipulate the model ….

I also have some tools used to illustrate the assembly ….

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I have some detailed views of selected components that I saved as .JPG format images and then reinserted as annotation in the main Assembly storyboard ‌.

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Move The “Move� tool can be used to re-position either an individual part or a group of parts.

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Move can follow a local X,Y or Z direction, be unconstrained, or be a rotation.

Tech Tip: The alignment of the Triad and direction of movement can be set to follow any selected geometry by using the Right Mouse Button Menu.

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Tech Tip: Press the <space> to relocate the Triad, and <space> again to set the new position.

This is particularly useful when setting a central location for a rotational movement.

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Manual Explode The “Manual Explode” tool can be used to explode one Level of the selected assembly or subassembly.

The “Manual Explode” tool can give more control of the direction and separation of the components compared to the Auto Explode tool.

Tech Tip: It is important to confirm or select the correct level in the Browser Tree!

The direction is determined by the dominant axis of the selected components.

Drag the arrow and the components will separate.

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Tech Tip: The direction can be changed by using the menu option that can be opened to the right of the Pull arrow. Move the cursor around and it will pick up alternative Pull directions.

Tech Tip: The starting point can be changed placing the curser over the â&#x20AC;&#x153;greyâ&#x20AC;? circle at the base of the arrow.

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Trail Lines Add Trail Lines to show the home location of components.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Auto Elbowâ&#x20AC;? option will trace any movement and the Right Mouse Button Menu enables you to edit the properties.

The Style and Colour of the Trail can also be changed.

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Annotation Identify Parts in the Assembly using the “Callout” tool ...

Edit the style and content of the Callout using the extensive tools ....

The “Associate Property” option will allow you to automatically populate the annotations with properties that have been previously defined in Inventor, such as Part Name, Part Number etc...

Tech Tip: The “Keep on Top” option will ensure the Callout will stay in the foreground of the view even when the image is rotated. The “Pin to Screen” option will ensure the exact location is retained.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Auto Annotateâ&#x20AC;? allows you to select the assembly or a group of parts and specify the layout.

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Arrows Add Arrows to highlight an item or to indicate movement using the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arrowâ&#x20AC;? tool.

Linear, Circular and double headed arrows are available.

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Edit the properties of the Arrow using the extensive tools ...

Tech Tip: The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep on Topâ&#x20AC;? option will ensure the Arrow will stay in the foreground of the view even when the image is rotated.

Adjust the Alignment, direction and position of the arrow via the Right Mouse Button menu ....

Adjust the size using the coloured anchor points.

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Labels Add instructions or information using the “Label” tool ...

Edit the style and content of the Label using the extensive tools ...

Tech Tip: The “Keep on Top” option will ensure the Callout will stay in the foreground of the view even when the image is rotated. The “Pin to Screen” option will ensure the exact location is retained.

Tech Tip: If the published document is to be an animation sequence it is good practice to separate movement of the assembly with introduction or removal of labels and any other form of annotation.

Introduce new snapshots before and after those containing the annotation containing just the assembly in the required rotation/position. This will minimize the undesirable affect of moving annotation.

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Image This is ideal for placing any image such as a warning symbol or tool in the storyboard.

Tech Tip: You can also insert an image saved from an existing Snapshot elsewhere in your Storyboard.

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Dimensions Add critical dimension details to images using the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dimensionâ&#x20AC;? tool ...

Edit the style and format of the Dimension detail using the extensive tools, the Edit Plane option allows the dimension to be repositioned...

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Selection by Depth To select an individual part that may be partially or completely obscured from view, hover the curser in the region and used the select by depth menu...

Isolate Selection To focus on an individual part, or sub-assembly, use the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isolate Selectionâ&#x20AC;? function to select just what you DO want to see and set the visibility of all other components to off.

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Invert Selection The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invert Selectionâ&#x20AC;? function can help by allowing you to select components, then invert the selection. Now use the Isolate Selection to automatically set the visibility of your new selection....

Selection Sets This can be very useful when working with groups of objects.

Select multiple objects (in my example there are 4 bolts), then use the right mouse button to invoke the menu and save the selection set.

Selection Sets can be re-used when needed and allows control and movement of groups of objects.

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Style Change the appearance or style of the image using the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Styleâ&#x20AC;? tool ...

Several pre-defined appearance Styles are included, but you also may edit and create your own.

Tech Tip: An individual component may be displayed in a different style to the rest of the assembly which can be used to create emphasis.

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Material The Material tool can be used to apply a specific material appearance to a component. This is particularly useful for assemblies imported without material properties defined.

Use the colour wheel or select from a list of predefined materials.

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Use the Scale and/or Rotate Texture tool to adjust the appearance of the Material.

Use the Opacity setting to see hidden detail behind a selected component ...

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Background Give your images and movies a corporate or product identity by changing the background to contain an image of your company logo or perhaps a suitable “environment image” ....

Tech Tip: When publishing images you will have the option to print with a transparent background.

Tech Tip: The appearance of an animation is generally improved by using a single colour background.

The “Background Configuration” also contains a selection of lighting environment settings.

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Ground Shadows, Floor Reflections and use of Background Environment can be used to enhance the image.

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Section View Simple and complex Sections can easily be created.

Each section plane can be moved, flipped and/or rotated ...

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The Edit Section Plane menu allows you to add or remove components affected by the section planes...

The Hatching style and colour can also be specified for each component...

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Detail View A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Detail Viewâ&#x20AC;? can be used to highlight specific components or to emphasise instructions.

Once created, double click on the detail view to edit the contents.

You can reposition the detail view, change the position or appearance of components.

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The Detail View menu provides options to re-scale the detail view, lock the focal point, manually synchronise the detail and main views or automatically update changes in both.

Return to the main view using the arrow on the bottom right hand side of the screen.

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Parts List A Parts List (or Bill Of Materials) can be added to any Snapshot.

Tech Tip: The Parts List tool will only be available if the imported data set contains part details.

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Simply check the components to appear on the table.

You can simply add and remove columns of data from the table...

...and set the size of the thumbnail image...

Each thumbnail image can also be edited in the same manner as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Detail Viewâ&#x20AC;?.

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The Parts List can be published as part of the image...

...or an alternative publishing option is to optionally set the visibility to “Off”, and select to “Publish Off Canvas”.

This will create a separate table in Word for example, which enables you to use the full word processing features to format the table.

The Parts List may also be exported in .CSV format file for use in spreadsheets.

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Publish Once completed, you can publish the document for use in a wide range of applications, viewers, and media players so your documentation can be accessed by anyone.

With publishing support for applications such as Adobe Acrobat (2D and 3D PDF), Adobe Flash, Autodesk Design Review, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and a variety of common image formats such as JPG and TIFF, as well as mobile devices such as the Apple iPAD, iPhone and iPod Touch, Inventor Publisher gives you the tools to deliver impactful documentation that can be viewed online, on paper, or on a factory floor monitor. Extensive publishing tools, options, and flexible templates provide the means to tailor the results to a specific purpose.

An entire document, particular storyboard or a snapshot can be selected to be published. Snapshots are published as views and storyboards are published as animations or a sequence of views Sometimes the published format will be the end state, other times it will get consumed downstream by professional layout or publishing tools. In either case, Inventor Publisher lets you deliver the information in the way you, your customers, and your partners need.

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Publish to Image Publish to Image provides export of an individual snapshot, storyboard or the entire document as a sequence of images. Image resolutions and other options can be controlled as part of the publish dialog.

Select Storyboard or Document to output multiple images in “batch mode”.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

Image resolution is controlled by...

• • •

Preset List - Select from a preset list of image resolutions Custom - Enter width and height in either inches or pixels to set the image resolution.

Custom image resolution has the option to lock aspect ratio.

Current Document Window Size - Sets the image resolution based on the current document window size

Note: The Transparent Background option is not supported by all image formats Tech Tip: Enabling Anti-aliasing when exporting images will improve the appearance significantly

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Tech Tip: When exporting a “small” image it may be necessary to drop the resolution to ensure annotation and images are scaled correctly.

Exported as JPG …

256x256

512x512

1024x1024

A resolution of 15 pixels per inch will correct the appearance of the 256x256 image

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Publish as Vector Publish to vector exports an individual snapshot without losing clarity and with smaller file size than raster images. The output is a .svg file.

Regular snapshot image

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Publish to Word Publish to Word uses the predefined template or a custom created template to publish as a Word document.

You can publish an individual snapshot, storyboard or the entire document.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

Tech Tip: Use the Transparent Background!

Tech Tip: Scale Annotations - Default is unchecked where annotations are not scaled to output resolution. The annotations maintain the same position as the publisher file. When checked, the annotations are scaled to the output resolution. Annotation position varies from the publisher file.

Note: The Word template is a repeated format creating a new page for each new snapshot, see the section in this guide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Publish using your own document Templateâ&#x20AC;?

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Publish to Powerpoint Publish to Powerpoint uses the predefined template or a custom created template to publish as a Powerpoint presentation.

You can publish an individual snapshot, storyboard or the entire document.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

Tech Tip: Use the Transparent Background!

Tech Tip: Scale Annotations - Default is unchecked where annotations are not scaled to output resolution. The annotations maintain the same position as the publisher file. When checked, the annotations are scaled to the output resolution. Annotation position varies from the publisher file.

Note: The Powerpoint template is a repeated format creating a new page for each new snapshot, see the section in this guide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Publish using your own document Templateâ&#x20AC;?

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Publish to PDF Publish to PDF uses the predefined template or a custom created template to publish as a PDF document.

You can publish an individual snapshot, storyboard or the entire document.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

Tech Tip: Use the Transparent Background!

Tech Tip: Scale Annotations - Default is unchecked where annotations are not scaled to output resolution. The annotations maintain the same position as the publisher file. When checked, the annotations are scaled to the output resolution. Annotation position varies from the publisher file.

Note: The PDF template is a repeated format creating a new page for each new snapshot, see the section in this guide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Publish using your own document Templateâ&#x20AC;?

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Tech Tip: 3D PDF is a powerful publishing format giving the end user control over visualisation properties, rotation and magnification. It is a good idea to “name” your snapshots as this will make navigation within the 3D PDF document easier.

User controls are created in the 3D PDF document to “Play” the sequence of snapshots, or step through them one at a time.

Note: The 3D PDF document contains the Model Tree and part details imported from Inventor.

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Publish to Flash The entire document or an entire storyboard can be selected to be published to a Flash video format.

Different video resolutions and video compressors can be selected to determine the quality of the output video file.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

Video resolution is controlled by ...

• • •

Preset List - Select from a preset list of video resolutions Custom - Enter width and height in pixel to define the video resolution. Lock aspect ratio is available for custom resolutions.

Quality - Set video quality to low, medium, or high

Tech Tip: Scale Annotations - Default is unchecked where annotations are not scaled to output resolution. The annotations maintain the same position as the publisher file. When checked, the annotations are scaled to the output resolution. Annotation position varies from the publisher file.

Note: The Flash template is a repeated format creating a new page for each new snapshot, see the section in this guide “Publish using your own document Template”

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Publish using your own document Template Standard templates are provided for Flash, Word, Powerpoint and PDF. By default, these Templates are located in ...

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Inventor Publisher 2012\Templates It is possible to make changes to text, embedded logos, or image location and size as well as add your own style and detail.

Word Template Make a copy of one of the standard templates ...

Either “Text Assembly Instruction.docx” or “Visual Assembly Instruction.docx” ... my new template will be “My Portrait Template.docx” You must enable the “Developer” tab in Word.

Tags are used in a template to extract information from an Inventor Publisher document at the time of publish. There are 11 tags that a word template supports.

Storyboard Tags • Storyboard\Number - Display storyboard number when called in template • Storyboard\Name -Display storyboard name when called in template • Storyboard\Description - Display storyboard description when called in template • Storyboard - top-level tag that wraps all the above tags Note: The Storyboard tag must be used to wrap all other storyboard tags for the template to work

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Snapshot Tags • Snapshot\Number - Display snapshot number when called in template • Snapshot\Name -Display snapshot name when called in template • Snapshot\Description - Display snapshot description when called in template • Snapshot\Image[Resolution] - Display image of snapshot to the resolution • Transition\Image[Resolution][t=multiplier (Value from 0 to 1) ]- Display transition image at given time and resolution Transition Duration - 10 sec t = 0.5 implies 0.5*10=5 seconds Transition image at the Fifth second • •

Transition\Description - Display transition description when called in template Snapshot - top-level tag that wraps all the above tags

Note: the snapshot tag must be used to wrap all other snapshot tags for the template to work In this example use a “portrait image” and set the Content Control Properties via the Developer tool bar. The resolution of the imported image is user defined. Size the image, table, and edit the titles as required.

It is good practice to set the aspect ratio of your workspace to match the intended output.

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Powerpoint Template See Word instructions to enable Developer Mode and information relating to Storyboard Tags.

In this first example the image resolution is set very low â&#x20AC;Ś.

In the second example the resolution is set much higher â&#x20AC;Ś.

It is pretty clear the resolution is better!

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Note that the “size and position” of the text box in Powerpoint is NOT what controls the exported image.

The exported image will be hi-res, and then resized to fit the defined box area in Powerpoint.

Flash Template The Autodesk logo for the Flash output can be found in … ..\Flash\en-US\HTML\Dark Default\Images\logo.gif You can backup and replace this with your own logo.

The HTML source for the Flash page can be found in … ..\Flash\en-US\HTML\Dark Default\index.html Again, backup and replace this with your own file.

Change the line …. &copy; Copyright 2009 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. &nbsp; .... to your own company name.

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Associative link between Word and Publisher The final Word document you produce may have been significantly modified and contain additional information and formatting not possible to create automatically using Inventor Publisher.

It may also be necessary to “update” the images contained in a Word document following a design change or review of the instructions or images.

As part of Inventor Publisher installation a Publisher word add-in is installed. This add-in shows up the next time Microsoft Word is launched. The add-in allows to link a work document to multiple Inventor Publisher ipb files. The word document can then be used to create customized publication materials.

Note: The Publisher word add-in supports Microsoft Word 2007 or later.

From the “Inventor Publisher” tab in Word, link your Word Document to an Inventor Publisher .ipb file.

You can browse the snapshot images stored in the .ipb file and insert them into the Word document individually.

You can also automatically update all images contained in the Word document following a change in the Publisher file.

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Publish to DWF Publish to DWF is a straight forward publish option to DWF format. A storyboard is published as an animation. Each individual annotation is published as a view.

Note: Publish Annotations - This option is only available for snapshot publish and the annotations are published as a markup in the DWF output.

Tech Tip: When saving the DWF file make sure you DO DOT OVERWRITE a DWF file you may have imported!

Tech Tip: DWF is a powerful publishing format viewed in Autodesk Design Review giving the end user control over visualisation properties, rotation and magnification. It is a good idea to â&#x20AC;&#x153;nameâ&#x20AC;? your snapshots as this will make navigation within ADR easier.

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Note: The DWF document contains the Model Tree and part details imported from Inventor.

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Publish to Video The entire document or an entire storyboard can be selected to be published to an AVI video format.

Different video resolutions and video compressors can be selected to determine the quality of the output video file.

The default image resolution is controlled by the user defined Publish Area.

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Preset List - Select from a preset list of video resolutions Custom - Enter width and height in pixel to define the video resolution. Lock aspect ratio is available for custom resolutions.

Note: Various Compression techniques are available, see the section in this guide “AVI Codecs” Tech Tip: Scale Annotations - Default is unchecked where annotations are not scaled to output resolution. The annotations maintain the same position as the publisher file. When checked, the annotations are scaled to the output resolution. Annotation position varies from the publisher file.

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AVI Codecs The AVI files exported from Publisher can be large, and it is worth experimenting with the Codec used and the Compression Ratio. Some Codecs like DivX have many controls worth experimenting with.

Video compression seems to be a black art. ... Which Codecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are available to you will depend upon what other software you have installed on your PC. The default setting is Microsoft Video 1 at 75% Compression.

Compression reduces the file size, but reduces the quality by an amount that varies depending the settings chosen. While different codecs provide different compression ratios, a lot depends on the specific settings that you select when creating your files. In addition to the codec selected, output file size depends on the video dimensions, the frame rate, the output quality desired, and other parameters. Overall, we recommend Microsoft Video 1 when distributing to a wide audience, since it has the widest compatibility.

Some of the more popular Codecs are ...

CINEPAK: This is a popular codec developed by Super Mac Inc and by Radius. It handles Videos that contain a lot of motion quite well. It is a good choice for distributing AVI Files because it is included with Microsoft Windows.

MICROSOFT MPEG-4 VIDEO: MPEG is a standard defined by the Moving Pictures Experts Group.

There are many codecs complying with the MPEG-4 standard, including ones from leading manufacturers like Apple, Ligos, DivX, etc. The Microsoft MPEG-4 Codec gives high quality compressions, is easy to use and enjoys good compatibility.

MICROSOFT VIDEO 1: This is a popular codec bundled with all versions of Windows. Microsoft Video 1 provides excellent video quality and reasonable compression ratio.

MJPEG (Motion JPEG): This is a video adaptation of the JPEG standard for images. It is ideal for editing and video capture. Many editing systems are built around MJPEG. One major advantage is that compression is fast and can be carried out in real time. However, there are many implementations of MJPEG, raising compatibility issues among videos compressed by different systems.

DivX: This MPEG-4 compliant codec provides high quality compression. The codec boasts offers support for multiple languages, good visual quality, speed and compression. However, users have reported synchronization issues. Users have also reported compatibility problems amongst files compressed using different versions of DivX. Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2012

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Publish to Mobile Publish to mobile output files can be viewed on any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices with the Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer app (available for free download on the Apple App Store). The output file is either saved locally or sent to an online Autodesk Account for easy access and sharing.

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Save local - The ipm file format saved locally can be loaded on a supporting device with Apple iTunes (iTunes is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc.). The file can then be opened using the application Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer found in the Apple App Store.The file can easily be shared over email or other file sharing methods Save Online - The ipm file can be directly saved online with a unique Autodesk Account (a free sign up service). The file can be shared using the URL or by accessing the Autodesk Account directly from the mobile app.

Note: Opening an ipm file on supporting devices requires installing an app from the Apple App Store.

Search for Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile viewer

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Vault A Vault is a repository where documents are stored and managed.

Autodesk Vault consists of two components: a server and a client.

The server stores all the versions of the documents. By storing all of the data in a common, centralized location, documents can be easily shared and managed.

The client allows to accesses the data that is stored in the vault from the working folder, which is a folder on the local machine.

Publisher is fully integrated within Autodesk Vault. More details are available within the product Help system or from your Vault Administrator.

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System Requirements The following software/hardware requirements are recommended for effective use of Autodesk Inventor Publisher.

Verified graphics cards

Note: Adobe Flash player is not installed by default. Adobe flash is required to view the animations in the Help file and toolclips.

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