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Introduction | |
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Autodesk Inventor: from the Top | |
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Product Background | |
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Prerequisites for Using this Book | |
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Book's Intent | |
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Special Sections | |
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Book Notations | |
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Designing in 3-D | |
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Terms and Phrases | |
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Toolbars | |
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Intellimouse | |
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Included Files on the CD | |
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Project Files for Tutorials and Exercises | |
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The Tutorials and Exercises | |
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Overview of Part, Assembly, and Drawing View Creation | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Dedications | |
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Getting Started, Sketching, Constraining, and Dimensioning | |
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Getting Started | |
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Projects | |
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Application Options | |
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Design Support System | |
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User Interface | |
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Command Entry | |
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Sketching and Part Application Options | |
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Units | |
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Templates | |
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Creating a Part | |
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Sketch the Outline of the Part: Step 1 | |
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Sket Ching | |
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Constraining the Sket CH: Step 2 | |
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Adding Dimensions: Step 3 | |
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Entering and Editing Dimension Values | |
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Over-Constrained Sketches | |
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Constraining and Dimensioning | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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Bracket | |
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Connecting Rod | |
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Review Questions | |
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Viewing, Extruding, Revolving, Editing Features, Sketched Features, and Boolean Operations | |
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Viewing a Model from Different Viewpoints | |
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Viewing a Model | |
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Understanding what a Feature is | |
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Using the Browser for Creating and Editing | |
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Swit Ching Environments | |
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Features Tools | |
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Extruding the Sketch | |
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Extruding a Sketch | |
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Revolving the Sketch | |
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Centerlines and Diametric Dimensions | |
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Revolving a Sketch | |
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Editing a Feature (Feature Editing) | |
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Editing Features | |
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Editing a Feature's Sketch | |
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Editing a Feature's Sketch | |
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Sketched Features | |
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Assigning a Plane to the Active Sketch | |
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Sketch Planes | |
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Sketch Planes | |
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Cut, Join, and Intersect Operation | |
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Operations and Terminations | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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Bracket | |
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Connecting Rod | |
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Cylinder | |
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Review Questions | |
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Placed Features | |
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Fillets | |
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Creating Fillets | |
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Chamfers | |
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Creating Chamfers | |
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Holes | |
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Creating Holes | |
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Threads | |
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Creating Threads | |
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Shelling | |
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Shelling a Part | |
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Face Draft | |
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Applying Face Draft | |
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Creating a Work Axis | |
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Creating Work Points | |
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Creating a Work Axis and Work Points | |
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Creating Work Planes | |
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Creating Work Planes | |
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Creating Work Planes | |
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Creating Work Planes | |
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Patterns | |
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Rectangular Patterns | |
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Circular Patterns | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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Drain Plate | |
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Cylinder | |
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Review Questions | |
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Creating and Editing Drawing Views | |
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Drawing Options, Creating a Drawing, and Drawing Tools | |
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Drawing Sheets Preparation | |
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Border Creation | |
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Title Block Creation | |
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Sheets, Borders, and Title Blocks | |
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Setting Up Drafting and Dimension Standards | |
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Template | |
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Creating Drawing Views | |
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Draft Views | |
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Drawing Views | |
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Editing Drawing Views | |
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Dimensions | |
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Editing Drawing Views and Dimensioning | |
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Annotations | |
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Sketched Symbols | |
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Hole and Thread Notes | |
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Parts List | |
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Creating an Autocad 2-D Drawing from Inventor Drawing Views | |
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Annotations | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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Drain Plate | |
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Connector | |
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Review Questions | |
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Assemblies | |
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Creating Assemblies | |
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Assembly Options | |
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Bottom up Approach | |
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Top Down Approach | |
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Grounded Components | |
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Subassemblies | |
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Reorder and Restructure | |
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Bottom Up Assembly Technique | |
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Top Down Assembly Technique | |
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Assembly Constraints | |
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Editing Assembly Constraints | |
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Driving Constraints | |
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Interference Checking | |
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Bottom Up Assembly Continued | |
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Top Down Assembly Continued | |
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@iMates | |
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Replacing Components | |
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Patterned Components | |
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@iMates, Replacing, and Pattern Components | |
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Assembly Work Features | |
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Adaptivity | |
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Adaptivity | |
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Enabled Components | |
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Design Views | |
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Presentation Files | |
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Presentation Views | |
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Creating Drawing Views from Assemblies and Presentation Files | |
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Creating Balloons | |
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Parts List | |
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Assembly Drawing Views | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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Adaptive Assembly | |
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Review Questions | |
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Advanced Dimensioning, Constraining, and Sketching Techniques | |
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Construction Geometry | |
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Ellipses | |
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Pattern Sketches | |
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Shared Sketches | |
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Mirror Sketches and Symmetry Constraint | |
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Ellipses, Pattern Sketches, Shared Sketches, and the Mirror Tool | |
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Slice Graphics | |
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Project Edges | |
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Sketch on Another Part's Face | |
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Projecting Edges and Sketching on Another Part's Face | |
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Auto Dimension | |
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Dimension Display, Relationships, and Equations | |
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Parameters | |
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Parameters Linked to a Spreadsheet | |
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Auto Dimension, Relationships, Parameters, and Spreadsheets | |
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@iParts | |
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@iParts | |
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2-D Design Layout | |
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2-D Design Layout | |
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Practice Exercises | |
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@iPart-Rectangular Steel Tubing | |
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2-D Layout | |
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Review Questions | |
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Advanced Modeling Techniques | |
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Sweep | |
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Sweep Features | |
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Coil Features | |
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Coil Features | |
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Loft Features | |
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Loft Features | |
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Part Split | |
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Splitting a Part | |
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Copy Features | |
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Copy/Paste Feature | |
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Reorder Features | |
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Mirror Features | |
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Mirroring about a Plane | |
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Feature Suppression | |
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Using Surfaces | |
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Ribs and Webs | |
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Rib Networks | |
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Creating Ribs and Webs | |
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@iFeatures | |
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Create iFeatures | |
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Inserting iFeatures | |
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Derived Parts | |
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Create a Derived Part | |
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Create a Derived Assembly | |
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File Properties | |
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Review Questions | |
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Additional Functionality | |
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Engineers Notebook | |
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Sheet Metal Parts | |
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Sheet Metal Tools | |
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Sheet Metal Part | |
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Parts Library | |
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Fasteners and Redspark Parts Library | |
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Design Assistant | |
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Dwg (Autocad and Mechanical Desktop) Wizards | |
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Dwg Import | |
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Importing Other File Types | |
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Review Questions | |
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Index | |