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WELCOMEAuthorizing Parts in
Content Center
• Started @ SynergisAug 2013
• MSD Help Desk Technician for the Autodesk manufacturing & Vault product lines.
• Degree in Mech. Engineering and CAD/CAM
• Background in Lean Mfg and Continuous Improvement
• Self taught AutoCAD user
• Release 9• Supported it for
over 15 years
• Inventor since Release 2008
• Content Center• Frame Generator• Routed System
• 20+ years of CAD experience
• 15 years of 3D modeling
• 5+ years as a CAD manager and Vault Admin
My Background
STEP 1Create the category
STEP 2Define the iPart
STEP 3Publish your part
STEP 4Create the family table
Publishing to Content Center
STEP 2aDefine the iPart
STEP 2bAuthorize Part
When dealing with certain categories in Content Center and Inventor functions you may have to authorize your
part prior to publishing it
Authorizing Parts
The key to authoring your fasteners is..Find something in content center that closely represents your fastener, open it (as custom), and determine what is required
to author it through the “Component Authoring” tool
FASTENERS
For example..If I wanted to create a stud
bolt for use in bolted connections/auto-drop..
the closes hardware representation would be a
hex bolt
Meaning I would need to define three (3) iMate mappings and the parameters
related to thread size, type, length,
and etc.
FASTENERS
FASTENERS
STEP 1Model stud bolt
STEPS 3 & 4Apply 2 iMate (mate)
constraints, one along the axis and the other applied to one of the origin work
planes for proper orientation
STEP 2Apply an offset insert/aligned
iMate constraintRemember the stud bolt needs to stick
above the hardware
FASTENERS
STEP 4Set up the required
parameters
STEP 5 (OPTIONAL)
Set up the iPart table by adding the stud bolt size, its length, and
thread information
FASTENERS
• IMPORTANT: Create Content Center Category• Work planes, axis, and etc. off• Inventor background set to white• Save part• Author Component
• Define the Category• Define the iMate mappings
FASTENERS
• Define Parameter Mapping (all yellow cells)• Publish Now• After publishing
• Edit family table and define requirements.• Assign unique part numbers• Populate your family table
INVENTOR DEMO TIME
• 2D sketch• Extrude it• Define parameters for
shape height, width, thickness and length and any other required parameters/iProperties
The sketch profile must contain the entire shape
No additional sketches or 3D modeling functions will
be permitted after this sketch
Recommended to project horizontal/vertical origin work planes as
centerlines to center structural profile around the origin work point
Incorrect sketching method
STRUCTURAL SHAPES
• Author the iPart (if applicable) • Add required info to control shape in iPart
table• IMPORTANT: Create Content Center Category• Work planes, axis, and etc. off• Inventor background set to white• Save part• Author Structural Shape
STRUCTURAL SHAPES
STEP 1Select Category
STEP 2If the extruded shape was done properly
the selection preview should appear correctly and the geometry mapping will
not require any additional inputs
STRUCTURAL SHAPES
STEP 4Map shape length, width,
height, and thickness
Publish now or laterAfter publishing, edit family table and
populate as required
STRUCTUAL SHAPES
Structural Shape Authoring[additional information]
• When publishing• Define at least the “shape length” value as a
key column• After publishing
• Edit family table and define requirements.• Apply a custom expression to the length
column• Assign unique part numbers• Set an expression for file name to be
{Member}-{Length}• Stock number column and mapping to
Project.STOCKNUMBER is required• Key columns are used to define the structural
size selection in the frame generator dialog• Populate your family table
STRUCTURAL SHAPES
INVENTOR DEMO TIME
CABLE & HARNESS
• Model or download the component• Create workpoints to define where the pins are• Define the parameters and iProperties• Define the Harness pin or pin group configuration• Define the Reference Designator (Refdes - Harness properties)
• Example: P?, U1• Each occurrence must have an unique designator
• Author the iPart (if applicable)
• IMPORTANT: Create Content Center Category• Work planes, axis, and etc. off• Inventor background set to white• Save part• Author Connector
CABLE & HARNESS
CABLE & HARNESS
• Step 1: Define the connector as using individual wires or a ribbon.
• Step 2: Define the connector’s termination type
• Step 3: Define the connector’s orientation of the conductors
• Step 4: Define a embedded length for accurate wire length• Field is optional
• Step 5: Apply all other values based on the type of connector it is
• Publish part and populate its family table as required
INVENTOR DEMO TIME
Is considered when the component is placed into a pipe or tube run and it
breaks it into two segments
TUBE & PIPE
• Model or download the component• Define the parameters and iProperties• Author the iPart
• Other Tab• ND, ND1/ND2/ND3 (nominal diameter)• SN (schedule – if applicable)
• Nominal diameter: 1/2, 1, 2 ½, M60, M70• ND: Non reducing, all connections are the
same• ND1: Reducing component, largest nominal
diameter size• ND2: Reducing component, next nominal
diameter size
TUBE & PIPE
• IMPORTANT: Create Content Center Category• Work planes, axis, and etc. off• Inventor background set to white• Save part• Author Tube and Pipe
TUBE & PIPE
STEP 1Define Type (Content
Center Category) and # of connections
STEP 2Starting at connection #1, define its end treatment
STEP 3Its nominal size ND or
ND1
TUBE & PIPE
STEP 4Define its connection
point, axis, & point type.The point is defined as the point in which the pipe or tube will break
when the component is placed
TUBE & PIPE
STEP 5Set the engagement valueI recommend setting the max to a distance and then setting its value and the min requirements to zero
(0)
STEP 6 (optional)Set ISOGEN settings
STEP 7Repeat steps 2 thru 5 for
the other connections
TUBE & PIPE
Publish your partAfter publishing, edit family table
and populate as required
INVENTOR DEMO TIME
