Assembly modellingĪssemblies are always a challenge but when you get into the hundreds, if not thousands of parts, then things can be difficult, even with today’s workstations. The same problems also often arise when building coils. Operations that previously would have failed can now be built where self intersections have caused issues. There’s also been work done on making specific modelling commands more reliable - in particular when sweeping large profiles around small radius corners. In terms of sketching, there are new tools to build slots more quickly and more options when sketching rectangles, whether linear or based on an arc. Although there has been some robustness built into the existing operations.
There’s not a huge amount that’s been changed in the part modelling tools - more evolution, than revolution. We’ll explore the possible reasons for that later on, but for now, let’s look at the updates. Looking at what’s new in documentation, the updates to the core Inventor system seem to a little lacking in this release. We’ll also touch on some of the other applications and services that are available as part of the package. So, in the next few pages we’re going to focus on the system, what’s changed and what’s been added in the 2014 release. While the suites approach undoubtedly offers huge value for money, the facts are that for those engaged in design, the core area of interest is always going to be Inventor. The higher end suites also include NavisWorks Manage for factory layout and design. Alongside the various flavours of Inventor, the Product Design Suite now also includes Alias Design (for industrial design and surface modelling), 3ds max, Showcase, Mudbox and Vault. The introduction of a ‘suites’ based sale meant that users could only have the option of taking on a bundle of tools. Fluent Meshing gives access to mesh preparation, abstract and control tools directly
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