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Contents
Autodesk Inventor 2009 - Removing Barriers toroductivity ................................................ 3
heet Metal Design.......................................... orner Relie & Corner Seam Override ................
arge Radius Bends ...................................................
ontour Flange Mid-Plane Oset Option ...........
heet Metal Styles .....................................................
nhanced Corner Seam .............................................5
heet Metal Fasteners ...............................................5
Part Authoring or Sheet Metal Parts ...................5
amed Flat Pattern Orientations ...........................5
lat Pattern Drawings ................................................5
Quality Improvements .............................................6
Drawing Manager ............................................ 6rop View ....................................................................6
utomated Centerlines ............................................ 6
unch Notes ................................................................6
lat Pattern Extent Properties ................................ 7
enter o Gravity ....................................................... 7
ntererence Edge Display........................................ 7
uperscript and Subscript ........................................ 7
arts List Filters .......................................................... 7
eorder Prompted Entries ....................................... 7
iew Annotation Style .............................................. 7
eader Line Option or Detail Views .....................8
nhanced Deault Standard Style ..........................8
ename Sketch Browser Entry ............................... 8
mproved Plot Resolution or Shaded Views ....... 8
actor Display in Bend Tables and Bend Notes .... . 8
SKD Drating Standard Compliance ................... 8
rame Generator ......................................... 8
ser Dened Sections ..............................................8
rame Generator – Multi-select .............................
erormance and Capacity ........................... 9
ative 6 Bit Support ...............................................
apacity Meter – Display Physical Memory Option ... .
Optimization or Pentium 4 Instruction Set .......
ask Scheduler – Multi Process Support ..............
ootprint, Perormance, Add-in start-up .............
D Navigation .............................................10
iew Cube ................................................................. 1
teering Wheel ......................................................... 1
ewind Tool ............................................................... 1
onstrained Orbit.................................................... 1
Assembly Design ........................................10
Assembly Substitutes ............................................. 1
Improved Angle Constraint ................................... 1
GripSnap Move and Rotate .....................................11
AutoDrop - Multitude Insert Option ....................11
Center o Gravity .......................................................11
Place Component Orientation ...............................11
Enhanced Drive Constraint .....................................11
Explicit iMate Matching ...........................................11
Part Design ................................................. 11
Shell, Boundary Patch and Fillet ............................11
Extrude to a Point or Vertex ....................................11
Sketch Productivity ..................................................1
Geometry Aligned Text ...........................................1
Custom iProperty Formatting................................1
Edit iProperty Expressions......................................1
Dynamic Simulation .................................... 12
Spur Gears ..................................................................1
Output Grapher – Precise Events .........................1
Output Grapher – Multiple Reerence Frames ..1
Output Grapher – Traces ........................................ 13
Output to Inventor Studio......................................13
Improved Color Control .......................................... 13
User Interace ............................................................13
Output Variables....................................................... 13
Inventor Studio ........................................... 13
Animated Lights ........................................................13
User Dened Camera Paths .................................. 1
Depth o Field Control ............................................ 1
Sot Shadows ............................................................ 1
Video Producer ......................................................... 1
Local Lights ............................................................... 1
Lighting Style Origin ................................................15
Suppress All/Multiple Constraints ....................... 15
Import/Export or Studio Styles ............................ 15
Interoperability .......................................... 15
Native Translators..................................................... 15
Import Assemblies as Single Part .........................15
Support or Low Tolerance Suraces ....................15
Publishing .................................................. 15
DWFx Format .............................................................15
DWF Perormance ....................................................16
Improved Visual Fidelity .........................................16
Sheet Color .................................................................16
Accurate Flexible Components .............................1
PDF Output ................................................................1
Design Accelerators ....................................1Bolted Connections ..................................................1
Gears............................................................................1
Shats ...........................................................................1
O-rings ........................................................................1
Belt Timing ................................................................. 1
Belt Representation ................................................. 1
Springs .........................................................................1
Cams ............................................................................1
Weld Calculations ..................................................... 1
Templates – Export and Import ............................. 1
Tube & Pipe .................................................1Custom Fittings Support .........................................1
Gravity Vector ...........................................................1
Sel Draining Tube & Pipe Styles ...........................1
Auto-route Sel Draining Lines ..............................1
Enhanced Routing Tool ............................................1
ASME BPE (Style) Fittings Library ........................1
Enhanced Filters or Library Browser ...................1
Cable & Harness ..........................................1
Multiple Control Point Modication ....................1
Deer Update or Individual Wire Harnesses .....1
Content Center ...........................................1
Save As or Content (Family) ................................1
Separate Servers or Content and Vault..............1
Favorites .....................................................................1
Vault Client ................................................1
Single Step Check In ................................................1
Direct Access rom File Dialogs.............................1
Browser Perormance ..............................................1
Support or LOD Suppression with Open romVault Operations.......................................................1
Separate Server Login (Disable single sign-on) .1
Technical Documentation ...........................1
CAD Manager Fundamentals .................................1New Features Workshop .........................................1
Improved Help ...........................................................1
Licensing ................................................... 2
License Timeout .......................................................
Installation and Deployment ...................... 2
Installation ................................................................
Deployments.............................................................
Conclusion ................................................. 2
Autodesk Inventor
Technical What’s New
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Technical What’s New
Autodesk®
Inventor™ 2009 - Removing Barriers to Productivity
With over two hundred separate enhancement projects in the release, the Autodesk Inventor 2009
product line addresses three key themes: working on larger designs, enabling more innovation and
working with other people’s data. Within each theme we’ve outlined the key enhancements so you can
ocus on those that will have the biggest impact on your operations.
Working on Larger Designs
Digital prototypes o large scale designs such as industrial plant, specialty vehicles, or modern transport
systems demand the ability to construct and manage large assemblies which can run up to tens or even
hundreds o thousands o parts. Inventor 2009 introduces native 6 bit support which removes the me
barriers associated with the Windows XP 3 bit platorm. Together these two actors acilitate the desig
architecture so working with large digital prototypes won’t slow you down.
Native 6 bit removes 3GB limitations and support PCs with more RAM•
Component substitution provides reduced memory representations o complex sub-assemblies•
Perormance optimization – including start up, shut down, and many modeling operations•
Enabling More Innovation
Improvements to the sketching, design accelerators, part design, and sheet metal simpliy the design
workows while enhanced simulation tools give you the power to explore more design options and eval
perormance and efciency without building physical prototypes.
Easy to use simulation tools integrated with the design workow•
Advanced sheet metal unctionality that incorporate manuacturing actors into the 3D model•
Smart pipe runs with new support or hygienic pipe standards•
Working with Other People’s Data
In today’s world o integrated supply chains, designers increasingly need to work with 3D data rom
customers and suppliers. Avoid the time-consuming difculties o working with data provided through“neutral” ormats by reading data directly rom the original or native ormats.
Native translators or Pro/ENGINEER•®, Granite,
UG-NX™, Parasolid®, and SolidWorks®
Enhanced STEP, IGES and SAT import•
Enhanced DWF Publishing•
Welcome to Inventor 29
Autodesk Inventor 29 oerssignicant increases in productivityespecially in the core design toolsthat you use every day. We’velistened to many people as we putthis release together and many o theimprovements are a direct result o
your input. Inventor 29 is easierto use and more powerul than ever,providing a more accurate digitalprototype so you can understand howyour design will perorm beore youbuild it.
We hope this will help you to analyzethe new eatures so you can ocus onthose that will have the biggest impacton your operations.
The Inventor Team
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heet Metal Design he Inventor 2009 product line is designed to simpliy
he design o a large range o widely used sheet metal
onstructs by providing accurate digital prototypes that
aithully represent the as-manuactured part includinguch details as corner relie geometry, sheet metal
asteners, and bend conditions calculated rom both
near equations and empirical bend tables. Bend tables
re now incorporated in revised sheet metal styles that
re ully integrated with the Inventor Styles system.
hese changes make it easier to dene and manage
heet metal styles to reect actual material, gauge,
nd manuacturing variables used within the selected
manuacturing acility. Building on the drawing
utomation introduced with Inventor 8, Inventor
009 introduces punch notes that accurately document
he punch data in manuacturing drawings as well as
ew options that support the documentation o at
attern extents.
orner Relie & Corner Seam Override
Quickly create complex anged parts in very ew
teps and with a much smaller eature tree. The
lange and Contour Flange tools provide new direct
manipulation capabilities so you can apply overrides
o individual corner seams and corner relies in
multi-edge anges and contour anges. Corner relie
ptions support shape and size overrides and corner
eam options support overlap type, gap value, and
verlap percentage¹. With ewer eatures and new
irect manipulation glyphs (icons) that are revealed
utomatically in both create and edit modes, Inventor
009 sheet metal parts are easier to build, easier to
nderstand, and easier to modiy.
Autodesk Inventor
Technical What’s New
Overlap percentage applies to anges only.
Large Radius Bends
Create accurate geometry in the presence o large radius
bends. Flange, contour ange, and corner seam eatures
generate miters with a consistent gap along the length
o the seam or large radius bends. This is acilitated by anew corner relie shape called Arc Weld.
Contour Flange Mid-Plane Oset Option
Reduce the time required to create complex contour
anges. The Contour Flange has a new oset option
that treats the contour prole as the mid-plane. When
this option is selected, material is created on both sides
o the contour prole.
Sheet Metal Styles
Set up and share sheet metal styles or dierent
materials and sheet gauges. Import bend data rom
Bend Table Denition Files and manage with the
Inventor Styles Editor. With Inventor 2009, sheet
metal styles are ully integrated into the Inventor
Styles ramework. Sheet metal styles inormation
is divided into Sheet Metal Rules and Sheet Metal
Unold Rules.
The new Sheet Metal Rules dene the bend and•
corner relie options that govern the design and
behavior o sheet metal parts.
The new Sheet Metal Unold rules capture your•
commonly utilized unolding methods and allow
you to publish them to Inventor's style library.
Sheet Metal Unold rules can be created or both
linear and bend table based unolding methods.
Enhancements in Inventor 2009 allow you to
import and visualize legacy bend tables, edit them
natively within the Style and Standard Editor and
publish them as either .xml les or use within
Inventor's style library, or as .txt les or use in
legacy versions o Inventor.
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nhanced Corner Seam
mpose precise control over corner seem gaps
o insure correlation between gap value entered
nd manuacturing inspection processes. The new
maximum gap condition (Max. Gap Distance) maintainsconstant gap along the seam to improve the quality
seam welds. Use the new Overlap options to
ontrol percentage overlap between the dominant and
ubmissive anges.
s with the enhanced Flange and Corner Flange tools,
he Corner Seam tool supports large radius bend plate
ases, arc weld corner relies, and overlap adjustment.
heet Metal Fasteners
nsert PEM® brand asteners, including sel-clinching
uts, pressed nuts, standos, and studs into sheet
metal designs. The Content Center has a new category
sheet metal content containing a large selection o
requently used PEM brand sheet metal asteners. The
ew content can be utilized in sheet metal assemblies
hrough enhancements to the Bolted Connection and
utoDrop tools.
Autodesk Inventor
Technical What’s New
iPart Authoring or Sheet Metal Parts
Create amilies o related sheet metal
parts. In addition to variations ound
in standard iParts, Sheet Metal iParts
have the ability to reerence SheetMetal Rules and Sheet Metal Unold
Rules. By reerencing these into iPart
members, you can easily create a amily
o parts that represent the geometry to
support the manuacturing capabilities o
dierent suppliers.
Sheet Metal iParts now include both the
olded and at pattern models so that you
can create iPart members with dierent
at pattern characteristics. For example, you can
speciy dierent at pattern orientations or clean
up eatures or each member o the iPart amily.
Named Flat Pattern Orientations
Associate dierent at pattern orientations with
dierent members o an iPart actory.
Create multiple at pattern orientations each with
its own origin, orientation, and ip direction and save
each with a dierent name. Then designate the right
at pattern orientation or each member in the iPart
actory.
Flat Pattern Drawings
Quickly create at pattern views o dierent iPart
members irrespective o the saved state o the sheet
metal iPart. You can select specic members o sheet
metal iParts – or the active member – when placing at
pattern views into Inventor drawings. The at pattern
will be drawn based on the named orientation dened
in the iPart table.
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Technical What’s New
Quality Improvements
utomatic Mitering o Disconnected Edges
reate mitered multi-edge planar anges with the
lange and Contour Flange tools – including cases
where the anges are separated by seams or even pre-xisting bends.
end Angle Defnition
hange the way bend angles are
eported in drawing manager and
manuacturing applications that use
he API. A new tab appears in the Flat
attern denition dialog that allows you
o select either the bending angle or the
omplementary open angle.
SM Simple Tearing
Model aces orthogonal to bend plates without a
eparation notch.
Drawing ManagerEnhancements to the Drawing Manager deliver
increased productivity to simpliy and streamline
the process o producing the drawings required by
manuacturing teams.
Crop View
Quickly crop views in the
drawing when you need
to show one side o a
symmetrical part or where
you only need to show a
small part o a larger part or
assembly. The new Crop View
tool supports rectangular,
circular, and polygonal crop
windows and avoids the need
to use the breakout tools. To
use polygonal crop windows,simply create a view sketch and draw the required
polygon. The crop sketch supports sketch constraints
so you can dene the position o the crop window in
relation to geometry in the view.
Automated Centerlines
Select one or more views in the
browser – or use the layout lters
and window select – and use the
Automated Centerlines tool to
create centerlines automatically
on multiple views. The Automated
Centerline tool provides options
to create centerlines or any
combination o holes, llets,cylindrical, and revolve eatures,
as well as sheet metal bends and
punch tools.
Punch Notes
Add punch notes to sheet
metal drawings when you
don’t need a complete
punch table. The punch note
provides a quick and easy
way to document punched
shapes. And because the
data is extracted rom the punch
ID, depth, direction, and angle
parameters o the punch eature
in the 3D model, punch notes
will update whenever the punch
eature is modied.
The appearance and ormat o the
punch note is controlled through
a new Punch Note style, and you can also include
a <QTYNOTE> token to display the number o like
punches in the pattern or in the part.
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eader Line Option or Detail Views
reate detail views with leader lines between the
etail boundary and the label. This option,
which works with the
on-ANSI style o detail, located on the context
menu o the detail
ew annotation. Ater
electing this option,
ou can drag the label
way rom the detail
ew boundary and a
eader line is created
utomatically.
nhanced Deault Standard Style
nhanced Options or View Label Deaults
he View Preerences in the Deault Standard style have
een enhanced giving users control over the content and
ormatting used when a view label is created. You can
ontrol deault parameters or each o the dierent view
ypes so your view labels are created exactly the way you
eed them. Includes control over label visibility and the
bel ormat. You can insert model properties in to the
bel and control the position o the label relative to the
ew. A new Constrain to View Border option provides
redictably control.
xclude Character Lists
new Character Exclude control, located on the General
ab o the Deault Standard style, allows users to call
ut which characters are to be excluded during the
reation o view names and annotations (tables and tags)
ssociated with revisions, holes, or bends.
Deault Thread Representation
ew option allows users to control the display
epresentation or sectioned threads and tapped holes.
ename Sketch Browser Entry
ou can now give descriptive names to sketch nodes in
he browser by double clicking on the node’s icon and
yping the new name. This capability works with view
evel sketches, sheet level sketches, and sketch symbol
nstances.
mproved Plot Resolution or Shaded Views
reate high resolution plots containing shaded views
ven when you don’t have the 3D part or assembly
model. Inventor drawing les now maintain high
esolution bit maps o rendered views to improve plot
delity.
K actor Display in Bend Tables and Bend Notes
The bend inormation reported to Drawing Manager or
via the API now contains KFactor inormation. The Bend
Note tool has been updated to allow users to add this
additional inormation i desired.
ESKD Drating Standard Compliance
Wrap additional dimension text underneath a•
dimension line.
Terminate leader on corner o eature control rame.•
Two additional GD&T symbols – axis intersection and•
parallel prole.
Closed arrowhead symbols or circular and total•
runout.
Frame GeneratorMany companies and individuals require use o custom
proles. In Inventor 2009 sotware, users can publish
their proles to the Content Center or use in FrameGenerator. A new Frame Shape Authoring tool has been
developed to acilitate the publishing operations. The
tool has the capability to prepare the custom prole
or Frame Generator use. The eature aords complete
control over the data displayed in the Frame Genera-
tor interace. This eature gives the user the necessary
tools to add any custom prole to the Frame Genera-
tor. Proles such as aluminum extrusions, dimensional
lumber, proled wood, rails, and miniature tubing to
name a ew.
User Defned Sections
Inventor 2009 addresses the needs o the many
companies and individuals who use custom proles.
Examples o common uses include custom aluminum
extrusions, dimensional lumber, proled wood, rails,
and miniature tubing. Inventor 2009 provides a new
Frame Shape Authoring tool or dening and publishing
user-dened proles. The authoring tool
aords complete control over the data
displayed in the Frame Generator
interace. All proles, including
user-dened proles, are
now managed in the
Content Center.
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Technical What’s New
rame Generator – Multi-select
ave time by inserting multiple rame elements in
single operation. Standard Inventor multi-select
ptions, including window select, chain select, and
multi-select using <ctrl>, allow you to select andopulate multiple elements. You can also work with
he entire contents o a sketch by selecting the sketch
rowser node.
Perormance and Capacityhe Inventor user community continues to increase
he scope and size o projects designed with Inventor.
ustomers building large industrial equipment and
omplex transportation systems are already managing
ssemblies with tens o thousands o parts.
nhancements in Inventor 2009 provide additional
calability that simplies working with very large
ssemblies, extending the perormance envelope o nventor. Customers can now leverage the ull power
6 bit computers and approach even larger projects
nowing that they will be able to work with very large
art counts.
Native 6 Bit Support
ake ull advantage o your investment in 6 bit
omputers². Inventor 2009 ships with 3 bit and 6
it implementations. The installer will automatically
nstall3 the 6 bit version when it detects a 6 bit
ersion o Windows XP or Windows Vista. With this
ersion, you no longer have to worry about the 3
igabyte barrier allowing you to open and load much
arger assemblies.
you install on the 6 bit version o Windows Vista you
will be able to install signicantly more RAM. The exact
mount depends on the design o your motherboard.
Capacity Meter – Display Physical Memory Option
See at a glance how much physical memory is being
used. With the huge increase in virtual memory
space available on 6 bit computers, users are more
interested in seeing how much physical memory isbeing used. On 6 bit systems, the capacity meter
shows physical memory, or RAM, utilization. You can
also select this mode on 3 bit systems rom the toolbar
tab o the Customize dialog.
Optimization or Pentium 4 Instruction Set
Go aster with Inventor 2009. The Inventor 2009
has been optimized to take advantage o the SSE
extended instruction sets supported on Pentium 4,
AMD Athlon 6 and AMD Opteron processors4. While
results will vary depending on the operation, you can
expect an overall perormance improvement in the
range o 5 to 15% rom this. The Inventor 2009 will not
install on computers that do not support SSE. Several
utilities are available on the internet that report CPUID
including supported instructions sets.
Task Scheduler – Multi Process Support
Complete batch jobs in less time by taking advantage
o multi-process support in the Inventor Task Scheduler.
You can run up to sixteen processes at the same
time. Set the number o processes and the amount o
memory to be used using the Multi-Process Settings
control. The task scheduler will launch processes until
the specied memory limit is reached.
Footprint, perormance, Add-in start-up
Reductions in add-in size have reduced the overall
memory ootprint as well as the application start up
time.
Requires 6 bit operating system: Windows x6 Edition
or a 6 bit version o Windows Vista
6 bit and 3 bit deployments are separate 4 or later processor variants
Windows Vista Edition Addressable RAM
Home Basic 8 GB
Home Premium 16 GB
Ultimate 18 GB
Business 18 GB
Enterprise 18 GB
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Technical What’s New
D NavigationView Cube
Get more control o deault views in the
modeling and drawing environments.
he View cube replaces the glass cubewith a small cube located in the corner
the screen to provide aster access
o standard views. The view cube has
ctive regions – edges, corners, and
aces that give single click access to the
orresponding views.
When adding base views to a drawing
heet, you can select the new From
Model option to place the view with
lignment dened by the ront plane
ened by the View Cube.
teering Wheelchieve better control o pan, zoom, and rotate,
specially when working on laptops, without the use o
mice or other pointing devices. The new Steering Wheel
rovides navigation exibility and travels through the
raphics area attached to the cursor to streamline
nteraction with the user interace. The Steering Wheel
ers many dierent levels and types o control over
model and drawing navigation, as well as providing
onsistency with other Autodesk applications.
ewind Tool
Quickly return to previous views. Select the Rewind
rea on the Steering Wheel and scroll back through the
lmstrip to view and select previous views.
Constrained Orbit
Rotate models as i they were located on a turntable.
The existing Orbit tool has been renamed to Free Orbit
and is joined by the new Constrained Orbit tool. Use
this tool to quickly and easily constrict rotation to thevertical axis.
Assembly DesignUsing assembly substitutes, you have the advantages
o lighter assemblies that still preserve accurate mass
properties, including center o gravity, assembly
constraints, and bill o materials data.
Assembly Substitutes
Use a substitute part to represent an assembly
when you don’t need access to the ull assembly
representation but still need to see how components
and sub-assemblies interact. Substitute parts can now
be called out directly rom the Level o Detail older so
you can quickly switch between the substitute and any
other LoD representation. Use a simple part when you
want to hide a lot o detail or use the Derived Assembly
tool to generate a substitute that provides an accurate
lightweight representation o the Master
assembly. The Derived Part tool
has a new Reduced Memory
mode so substitutes based on
derived parts consume even
less memory.
Level o Detail supports
multiple assembly substitutes so you
can create dierent assembly substitutes
or dierent workows. For example,create one substitute containing the
inormation required or a digital mockup
analysis and a second to dene the level o detail
needed so you can quickly create large layout drawings.
Improved Angle
Constraint
Control the behavior o
movable joints – such
as pins and hinges – by
using the new Explicit
Reerence Vector
option in the Angle
Constraint to dene an
unambiguous reerence
direction.
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Technical What’s New
GripSnap Move and Rotate
asily explore dierent congurations during the
arly design denition phase. New in Inventor 2009,
he GripSnap tool combines exibility, ease o use,
nd precision in one easy to use tool. GripSnapsupplement the existing assembly constraints
llowing you to quickly move and rotate components.
imply select the components, work geometry, or
ub-assemblies that you want to move. The possible
ranslational and rotational options or the selected
ntity are displayed automatically in a pop-up ribbon
ar.
AutoDrop - Multiple Insert Option
educe the time required to place multiple bolts or
crews. There is a new button in the AutoDrop toolbar
o enable insertion o multiple asteners in a single
peration. When this option is selected, AutoDrop
earches or and populates all holes that match the
iameter o the original selection.
enter o Gravitynclude the Center o Gravity in your design process by
sing the new workpoint and orthogonal workplanes
ssociated with the Center o Gravity glyph.
Place Component Orientation
Quickly place hundreds o components into assemblies
without redening the orientation at each step. Place
Component and paste operations now use the orienta-
tion rom the last instance in the browser and applythis to the next insertion, reducing the need to reorient
individual components.
Enhanced Drive Constraint
Use the Drive Constraint tool to identiy and observe
precise collision inormation without increasing the
number o steps. The Drive Constraint tool now stops
at the precise point o collision rather than the nearest
step and displays the corresponding constraint angle in
the Drive Constraint dialog. You can now use Contact
Sets to dene which parts should be included in the
collision solve to improve perormance.
Explicit iMate Matching
Quickly place multiple occurrences o a component us-
ing all matching iMate names between that component
and other components in the assembly. A new Match
All iMates option in the Place Component dialog ap-
plies iMates between the placed component and rst
available component in the assembly with matching
iMates.
Part DesignAlgorithmic advances and continued investment in
the 3D geometry kernel that drives Inventor enables
Inventor 2009 to generate well behaved appropriate
geometric solutions in a wider range o complex sur-
ace conditions. These result in increased stability when
modeling advanced shapes and signicantly reduce thetime required to get the geometry you want.
Shell, Boundary Patch, and Fillet
The Shell, Boundary Patch, and Fillet tools have been
enhanced to provide additional modeling power
needed or plastic and cast part design. The Shell tool
has a new option which allows the selection o a subset
o tangent aces, providing more control over which
aces are removed by the shell operation. This increases
Shell tool capability or advanced shapes and provides
greater modeling exibility. Boundary Patch is now
more robust when tangency is applied, and the Fillet
tool has a new Minimal setback option which generates
smoother transitions between intersecting llets.
Extrude to a point or vertex
Improve workows requiring intererence extrusions or
when creating parts rom multiple proles on dierent
planes. The To option in the Extrude tool can be used
with a sketch point, a workpoint, or a vertex.
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Output Grapher – Traces
reate additional traces without re-running the simula-
on. Dynamic Simulation now supports the addition o
races using the cached simulation data. Traces are now
managed by the Output Grapher. To add a new traceter running the simulation, just speciy the point you
want to trace and the cached simulation is used to draw
he trace without re-running the simulation.
Output to Inventor Studio
ncrease the realism o Studio animations by render-
ng the output o dynamic simulations. Use the Create
tudio Animation command and all o the simulation
arameters are automatically transerred to the Studio
nvironment. There is a new deault animation called
Dynamic_Simulation and a new parameter, Simula-
on_timeline parameter, or use with the Animate
arameters command.
mproved Color Control
ssign dierent colors to dierent mobile groups to
make it easier to see what group a component belongs
o. Colors are assigned automatically but can be
verridden using color styles
verrides. You can now over-
de component color within
Dynamic Simulation including
olors created using Color
Mobile groups. Grounded com-
onents are shown in a glass rendering
o emphasize which components are
rounded and which are moving. This inormation is
tored in a separate Design View.
User Interace
New commands in the Output Grapher toolbar or•
managing Traces, Reerence Frames, and Precise
Events.
Pan and zoom output graphs using the middle mouse•
wheel.
Pan and zoom input graphs using the middle mouse•
wheel.
Improved display o graph scales when changing•
zoom actor.
Input Grapher reerence selector relocated or ease•
o use.
Output Variables
All Output Variables have been renamed to make them
easier to read. For example, “ls” changed to Extent_
length and "nb_cp" changed to Num_points. A complete
list o the variable changes is included in the Help sys-
tem, under the topic Output Grapher variable names.
Inventor StudioMore and more users o Inventor are using Inventor
Studio to create realistic renderings o their designs.
Inventor 2009 includes many enhancements to its
state-o-art rendering and animation tool so design
engineers can maximize the realism and eectiveness
when communicating with customers and other
decision makers, by creating high quality photo-realistic
renderings and animations.
Animated Lights
Increase the realism o renderings by adding animated
lights to produce eects including back lighting,
product lighting, and device lights such as warninglights and on/o indicator lights. Simply dene the
time position in the animation timeline and dene the
light's animated state at that time. Many o the light
parameters, such as on/o, position, target, color, and
intensity, can be animated.
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Technical What’s New
User Defned Camera Paths
Quickly create sophisticated camera movements
uch as y-bys and walk-throughs to add realism and
maximize the eectiveness o animated renderings. The
ew camera path animation tools are quick and easy tose. Simply create D or 3D splines to dene paths or
oth the camera position and camera target, associate
hem to the camera and then use the path edit handles
o speciy the start and end points along each path.
he camera will ollow the path while pointed at the
ocation dened by the target path.
Depth o Field Control
reate images with increased realism by controlling
he depth o eld on each camera. The depth o eld
ontrol simulates a real-world camera with ocal plane
nd -stop settings. Or you can dene the near and
ar ocus planes in relation to the model. With a broadepth o eld, all or nearly all o a scene is in ocus.
With a narrow depth o eld, only objects within a
ertain distance rom the camera are in ocus.
Sot Shadows
Control dispersion when using sot
shadows in your lighting styles. A
new light parameter has been
added to the Shadow tab in thelighting styles. By changing the
Light Parameter, you can control the
dispersion o light and hence,
the quality o the shadow.
Video Producer
Enhance the creative
quality o animated out-
put by adding composited
camera shots to your anima-
tions. Use existing cameras or add new ones, animated
or still, to add video productions to the Productions
older in the scene browser. Simply drag cameras and
ades to the Video Producer timeline and render thecomposited shots to produce stunning visual output.
Local Lights
Simulate lighted components such as panel and switch
lighting to improve realism. Local lights move with
the component when animated, and their parameters
are respected and reected when rendering images or
animations. Local lights can be created rom an existing
light or as a completely new light and local light param-
eters can be animated.
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ighting Style Origin
eposition Lighting Styles to reuse a set o lights with
ierent areas or components o a large assembly.
ighting styles have a new Position that represents
he center point o a sphere that encompasses all theghts in the style. Simply orient the light using the
rientation tools, and enter a new XYZ values to move
he Lighting Style to a new location. The Lighting style
osition can also be modied using the 3D Move/Ro-
ate command.
uppress All/Multiple Constraints
Quickly set up the model or unconstrained animation
y suppressing all or top level constraints with just a
ew steps. Right click an assembly and click "Select Top
onstraints" selects only the constraints working on
he assembly and not those o the sub-components.
hen Right click and you can add the selection to Ani-
mation Favorites, or suppress them all at once.
mport/Export or Studio Styles
asily share surace, lighting, and scene styles using the
xport and Import controls in the Style dialogs. Styles
re saved with the standard Inventor .styxml le exten-
on. Exported styles can be distributed with deploy-
ment images, or passed around between users based
pon your style control processes.
nteroperabilitynteroperability is a major theme or Inventor 2009
ecause in today’s world o integrated supply chains,
esigners increasingly need to work with 3D data rom
ustomers and suppliers. Inventor 2009 includes the
ative translators or Inventor that were released on
utodesk Labs during 7.
Native Translators
treamline projects that require opening les rom
endors or customers in native ormats. Promote
ollaboration with clients and manuacturing teams
hat need 3D design data in other le ormats. Native
ranslators support direct data exchange between
utodesk Inventor and UGS, SolidWorks® or Pro/
NGINEER® by: importing and exporting Parasolid®,
mporting UG-NX™, importing SolidWorks, importing
nd exporting GRANITE, and importing Pro/E.
Import Assemblies as Single Part
Create single part les when opening STEP, IGES or
SAT assembly les. Use single part les when inserting
models o standard or purchased components to
simpliy the model and increase perormance.
A new checkbox called Import Assembly as a Single
Part is located in the File Open Options dialog to select
this behavior. With the option active, all solid bodies
encountered in the input le are created as a single
base object and all suraces, whether rom the same
part or dierent parts, are placed into one composite.
Any wirerame geometry encountered in the le will be
placed in a group with the same part name. Wires rom
neutral les are placed into 3D sketches, and points are
placed in the construction environment.
Support or Low Tolerance Suraces
Import and use a wider range o surace data rom
industrial design applications. Surace data rom
conceptual design sotware is oten generated with
low “mathematical tolerances” that make it difcult
and time consuming to incorporate this data in the
parametric 3D model. Enhancements to the modeling
kernel in Inventor 2009 provide a better user
experience when working with imported surace data,
particularly when working with lots, extrude proles,
and sweep rails.
Publishing
The ability to share manuacturing data is a business
critical unction. Enhancements to DWF™ publishing
provide increased perormance and better 3D
rendering o decals and les containing positionalrepresentations. Additional publishing options to
help you share your design include support or DWFx,
which can be read directly in Internet Explorer V7, and
support or PDF.
DWFx Format
Allow third party partners to view drawings without the
need or viewers or browser plug-ins. Inventor 2009
supports the new DWFx ormat, which can be viewed
in Internet Explorer Version 7 on both Windows XP and
Windows Vista. The DWFx ormat supports both D
and 3D data. DWFx les containing 3D data are best
viewed using Autodesk Design Review. DWFx is ully
compatible with the Markup Manager.
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DWF Perormance
njoy aster DWF publishing. The Express option
ow uses the active graphics tessellation rather than
ecalculating every element. This results in much
uicker DWF publishing without compromising qualityn most cases.
mproved Visual Fidelity
rovide recipients with more accurate and consistent
epresentation o the parts and assemblies under
eview. Published les now contain the
nventor perspective view setting and
nvironment map to provide
mproved visual parity
etween the DWF output
nd the Inventor image.
arts and assemblies
ontaining multiple decals
re published correctly
s DWFs with multiple
ecals.
heet Color
ublish Inventor drawings with sheet colors that match
ther drawings. Use the Override Sheet Colors option
n the DWF publishing tool to precisely control the
ackground color in the resulting DWF le.
Accurate Flexible Components
ublish assembly designs containing exible
omponents such as wiring or hoses with realistic
epresentation o dierent assembly positions.
Models containing exible components and positional
epresentations are ully represented in the DWF le,roviding more realistic and accurate rendering in each
osition.
DF Output
hare design data using the PDF ormat. Inventor
009 includes a PDF output to give you more ormat
exibility. PDF output rom an Inventor drawing
roduces vectors and text. PDF output rom a 3D model
rendered as a bitmap image.
Design Acceleratorsnventor 2009 reduces the learning curve associated
with rapidly designing, analyzing, and creating
ommonly used machine components based on real-
world attributes, such as speed, power, and material
roperties.
olted Connections
pend less time inserting bolted connections.
he bolted connection tool includes the ollowing
nhancements:
Select asteners with dierent parameters – such as
material type – using the table dialog.
Insert bolted connections into hole patterns based
on center points. Simply select the original patterned
hole and the specied bolted connection is inserted
into all patterned holes at once.
Insert bolted connections based on points, 3D points,•
or work points created in sketch environment. Insert
bolted connection into all sketched points at once,
or unselect points where bolted connections are not
required.Use the Concentric placement option in the Design•
tab to insert bolted connections into holes created
with Extrude and Revolve commands in the part
environment.
Gears
Spend less time designing reduction gears. The gear
generators provide better graphical eedback:
3D grips added to preview mode to allow ast•
adjustment o gear dimensions.
New ANSI/AGMA 1-D strength check added•
or spur and bevel gears.
Bevel gear preview now shows helical teeth.•
New ip button was added to ip the Start plane.•
Shats
Complete the as-manuactured shat design using
the Shat Design Accelerator. New section eatures
include inner and outer threads, keyway grooves with
one rounded end, plain keyway grooves, and special
chamer or n-sided prism. In addition, inner bores can
now contain llets, chamers, threads, and grooves or
inner retaining rings .
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O-rings
omplete the design o shat and bearing assemblies
sing the new redesigned O-ring Generator. Select a
adial or axial O-ring rom Content Center and insert it
nto the assembly.
elt Timing
ock the initial rotation o the
esired toothed pulley
with selected reerence
eometry. Use the new
ptions in the More area
the Design to speciy
dditional constraints that
ene the initial starting
osition. You can also adjust the
nitial rotation o each teethed pulley using the
ooth grip. The rst tooth in the pattern is displayed
nd the pulley can be rotated with respect to the belt
itch.
elt Representation
elect the best representation or
elts in the assembly model. The
xisting solid representation is
oined with two new options: Sketch,
which generates belts as a simple
ketch with dash-dot line type, and Detailed
available or Synchronous Belts only), which
enerates a solid including teeth represented as a
atterned iFeature.
prings
nteract with springs using new 3Drips controls to quickly change
he spring parameters while
iewing the result in the on-screen
review. Supports spring
osition, outer, inner and
mean spring diameter,
wire diameter, and
umber o coils.
ams
ew commands were added to enable ip start plane
or both linear and disc cams. For linear cams, you can
ow also select a start plane.
Weld Calculations
Modiy the Allowable Stress value in the Joint Material
nd Properties area o the weld calculators.
emplates – Export and Import
ave time by saving and reusing templates. Export and
mport design accelerator parameters is supported or
olted connections, shats, spur gears, worm gears,
-belts, and synchronous belts. The Export template
ommand stores data in the XML ormat and the
mport template supports both XML and CAL (legacy)
ata.
Tube & PipeDesign process lines that comply with sterility and
cleanability standards required or process equipment
in the pharmaceutical, ood, and personal care
industries. It’s now easy to incorporate the correctslope into the pipe route including the use o drainable
angle ttings that comply with ASME BPE standards.
Custom Fittings Support
Add ttings with angles other than 5°and
° to the content center library or use in
sel draining pipe runs. The actual angle o
the tting is now calculated rom the
part geometry and displayed
in the Tube & Pipe Authoring
dialog. This angle is also used
when dening sel draining
tube and pipe styles.
Gravity Vector
Dene the vertical reerence direction to obtain the
correct run-o directions. The new Gravity tool allows
you to identiy the vertical direction by selecting a ace
or edge.
Sel Draining Tube & Pipe Styles
Dene tube and pipe styles to support the design o
sel draining lines. Select the “sel draining” option in
the Tube & Pipe Styles Editor and enter the target slope
or all o angle. Or use the angle calculator to compute
the angle rom a specied drop. In addition to standard
5 and degree elbows, sel draining pipe styles
include a custom elbow or use with ttings with non-
standard angles such as or 1 degrees.
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Auto-route or Sel Draining Lines
utomatically generate hygienic pipe routes with the
orrect runo to eliminate horizontal segments.
he Auto-Route tool has been
nhanced to support customngled ttings by applying
he slope angle dened in
he active Tube and Pipe
tyle to the necessary route
egments. It automatically places
ustom angle elbows at the transition
rom vertical to sloping segments, and
° elbows at the transition between two sloping
egments. As in the past, the tting inormation is
etermined by the active Tube and Pipe Style.
nhanced Routing Tool
Quickly select the right run o direction when editing
ube and pipe runs. Based on the gravity vector, the
ube & Pipe editor automatically displays the dierent
un-o directions making it extremely easy to select
he correct option.
ASME BPE (style) fttings library
ncorporate ASME BPE compliant ttings into hygienic
ube and pipe designs. A library o commonly used
SME BPE ttings is available so you don’t have to
reate your own hygienic ttings.
Enhanced Filters or Library Browser
Select the tting with the correct angle rom a library
containing multiple ttings with the same nominal
angle. The library browser is enhanced with new angle
lters that allow you to speciy a specic angle or arange o angles. The browser has been reorganized with
a vertical selection panel so you can speciy and nd
the right part in less time.
Cable & HarnessMultiple Control Point Modifcation
Rapidly reposition wire segments and harnesses by
editing multiple control points using the improved
3D Move/Rotate tool. Changes include an enhanced
path preview so you can clearly see the eect o the
changes and an Apply button to support multiple
editing o multiple control points. Invoke the tool once
and interactively reposition one or more control points
until you have the path you need. You can move control
points individually or as a group and then select the
Apply button to commit the changes.
Deer Update or Individual Wire Harnesses
Enjoy increased perormance while editing harnesses
with large wire counts. Right click on a harness node
and use the new Deer Updates options on the Harness
Settings dialog to suspend update length and bill o
material updates. Two options are provided: Deer All
Updates and Deer Length Updates in the BOM, both o
which apply to the active harness. Deer update icons in
the browser show which items are in the deerred state.
In addition, wires in the deerred state are displayed as
zero length in the bill o material to draw attention to
their deerred status. Deer update settings or otherharnesses can also be accessed and modied rom the
Harness Settings dialog.
Content CenterSave As or Content (Family)
Create part amilies with dierent materials by copying
an existing part amily with the new Save As command.
The Content Center Editor includes a new Save Copy As
command located on the toolbar. The new part amily
can be independent or linked to the parent amily so
any updates to the parent amily are automatically
propagated into the new amily.
Separate Servers or Content and Vault
Separate the Content Center and Vault servers by
installing Autodesk Data Management Server on two
computers, and then use one as a Vault server, and the
other as a Content server.
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Technical What’s NewTechnical What’s New
avorites
ustomize the structure and content o the Favorites
st. You can now use Copy or cut and then paste olders
r components (amilies or amily members) within
our Favorites group, or rom the Content Center groupo your Favorites group. You can also drag and drop
olders or components within the Favorites panel.
Vault Clientpend less time dealing with the Vault and more time
working on your design. Enhancements to the Vault
ient reduce the time required to retrieve les when
ou are starting work and less time returning les when
ou’ve nished. Enhancements to Vault workows
liminate unnecessary interaction and internal
mprovements increase the perormance o checkin and
heckout operations by avoiding unnecessary network
rafc.
ingle Step Check In
ave time when checking in work into the Vault. The
dd Files and Check In commands have been combined
o provide a single check in process that automatically
dds les that are not already in the Vault. Check In
perations are aster due to improvements in DWF
ublishing and optimizations made in the Check In
ommand itsel. In addition, you can now access the
heck In command directly rom the Vault browser.
ote that the Add Files command has been removed.
Direct Access rom File Dialogs
ccess the Vault directly rom requently used le
ialogs. Click on the Vault icons located in these dialogs
o work with les rom the Vault. The Vault icon isvailable on the File Open, Place Component, and
Derived Part dialogs as well as the Base View dialog
n the Drawing Manager environment, and the Create
iew dialog in the Presentation environment.
rowser Perormance
xperience better Vault browser perormance. Browser
verhead has been reduced by perorming updates to
he status icons only when the browser is accessed and
nly or items visible at the top level. Lower level status
normation is retrieved only when the assembly item is
xpanded.
upport or LOD Suppression with Open rom Vault
Operations
njoy aster checkouts when working with complex
ssemblies. When you call out specic Level o Detail
r Design View representations in the Open rom
ault dialog, Inventor 2009 downloads only those
les required or the selected representation, reducing
erver trafc and increasing checkout speed.
Separate Server Login (Disable single sign-on)
Congure separate servers or Vault and Content
Center. You now have the option to speciy and log
into a separate server or Content Center libraries and
the Vault. From the File menu, select Autodesk DataManagement Server > Connection Options. Separating
content and vault servers provides more options or
optimizing perormance in large installations.
Technical DocumentationInventor 2009 extends and improves its range o
learning and reerence resources to help users maintain
skills and quickly make the most o the 3D design
environment.
CAD Manager Fundamentals
Find help on setting up and managing Inventor
installations to provide and maintain a productive
design environment. Reer to the new CAD Manager
Fundamentals resource or inormation on installation,
migration, application options settings, conguring
styles, best practices, and more. An installation option
is provided so you don’t have to install the CAD
Manager Fundamentals on user’s machines.
New Features Workshop
Review the new eatures in Inventor 2009 sotware
using the enhanced New Features Workshop built
into the help system. Similar to the New Features
Workshop in AutoCAD and other Autodesk products,
the Inventor New Features Workshop provides a
graphic-rich introduction to What’s New or the release
so you can understand what is new at a glance.
Improved Help
Take advantage o in-depth inormation on how to
use Inventor. This release includes improved topical
depth and navigation o content throughout the help
system. Over orty new animations, ve new tutorials,
and multiple examples and static images have been
added to the content, along with a restructured table
o contents and home page or improved navigation.
Finally, an inormational video guides new users on how
to use Help.
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icensingicense Timeout
AD administrators can now set a maximum idle period
or network licenses to optimize license utilization.
icenses that are let unused or longer than this periodre returned to the license pool and become available
or other users. Sessions reactivated ater the timeout
eriod automatically seek a new license rom the
cense server allowing users to return to their work.
here is a two hour grace period that covers situations
when all licenses are in use. The idle timeout option
disabled by deault within the application. Enable
meout monitoring by congure the options le. The
minimum timeout period ADLM allows is seconds
5 min).
nstallation and Deploymentnstallation
mproved Perormance he installer has been tuned to increase perormance.
he product initialization process now takes place ater
he product selection page so you don’t have to wait or
he installer to initialize the install process or products
hat may not be installed.
onfguration Reminder
warning message appears i you press the “Install”
utton and have not invoked the conguration pages.
eorganized Installer Documentation
dditional and improved installation documentation is
ccessed rom a new button on the main startup page
the setup program.
eturn to start button added to last page o installer
voids the need to restart the installer i you need to
erorm another operation – or example create an
dditional deployment or reerence the documentation.
dobe® Flash® Player
he Adobe Flash Player is no longer installed by the
nventor installer.
Deployment
Administrators now have the ability to exclude
component products rom a deployment i the
deployment is not congured to deliver the product(s)
to workstations.
It is now possible to create and modiy deployments on
workstations that already have the sotware installed.
Administrators can apply 3 and/or 6 bit service
packs to deployments regardless o the administrator’s
workstation platorm.
The Create and Modiy Deployment Shortcuts have been
moved to a tools older below the Administrative Image
older to reduce exposure o this unctionality to non
administrative users.
Ability to create a 3 bit or 6 bit deployment is no
longer determined by the desktop operating system,
so you can now create both 3 and 6-bit deployments
rom a single computer.
ConclusionWe thank you or your continued support o the
Autodesk Inventor amily o products and hope you eel
we are listening to your needs. The new and enhanced
unctionality was done to make you more productive,
your company more competitive, and return true value
to your bottom line.