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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 | |