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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

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Technical What’s New


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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



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


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.



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.

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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.




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.




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.




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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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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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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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.



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.

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