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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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What's New with Inventor 2009 (Article 1)
February 29, 2008, 04:10 PM Garin GardinerArticle #1 Sketch ProductivityAutodesk Inventor 2009 offers significant increases in productivity especially in the core design tools that many of you use every day. We’ve listened to you when we put this release together and these improvements are a direct result of your input. One great example is the sketching environment.It’s widely accepted that parametric sketching is an excellent mechanism for capturing design intent. It turns otherwise dumb lines, arcs and circles into intelligent objects that relate to each other through dimensions and constraints. Because of this intelligence, users save valuable time when they need to modify the Digital Prototype.
Since many of you spend a significant part of your time in the sketching environment we continue to invest in making their experience easier and more productive. Key enhancements include:
- New Degrees of Freedom display that uses red arrows to show the how each sketch element can still move if additional constraints are not added to the sketch
- Enhanced Trim and Extend tools that simplify operations in complex sketches
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New streamlined constraint icons that greatly reduce on-screen visual clutter
AutoCAD-style sketching in Inventor
But what if you’re still experimenting with different designs concepts?Adding too many constraints too early in the design process can sometimes limit productivity as users spend more time modifying constraints and less time exploring different design options. This is one of the reasons many users like to do concept design in AutoCAD.Constraint Options in Inventor 2009With Inventor 2009, you can now choose when and how to use constraints. Technically referred to as Constraint Inference and Persistence, this change simply means that you can now control whether to use the constraint engine while sketching and whether or not the resulting constraints are saved with the sketch. Users moving to Inventor from AutoCAD can start simple and progress to full parametric sketching as soon as they are ready.
More to come later!
Garin
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