Autodesk Inventor 2018 – What's new

Design Profissional

Engineers constantly need to drive innovation in their design work for better products and more efficient processes.. to stay ahead, you need ever faster and more powerful tools that help you achieve better performance and productivity. Inventor 2018 offers exactly that.

Improvements have been made to many core features that you use every day.. Designing geometry in sketch, multi-body sheet metal parts and part modeling workflows have all been improved. O Inventor 2018 offers performance improvements for large assembly and design workflows. And built-in Model Based Definition has been added to give you the ability to add Geometric Dimensioning and Toleration and 3D Annotations to your models to streamline documentation and enable the use of your 3D designs for manufacturing and quality processes.

Model based definition

Model-Based Definition (MBD), is a powerful new set of tools for adding annotations, GD & T and other manufacturing information directly to a 3D part. Built-in Tolerance Advisor checks the integrity of your tolerance scheme and lists potential issues, errors and other information in the Tolerance Advisor browser. Once your 3D model has MBD and 3D Annotations applied you can recover in your 2D drawing, export to a 3D PDF or STEP AP242.

for details, consult: Model based definition

Sheet metal

Multi sheet metal parts now support unique rules and thicknesses for each body. Multibody rules can be applied to bodies in the browser, or when creating new bodies within the Face dialog, Outline Flanges, Contour Roll e Flange Lofted.

for details, consult: sheet metal upgrades

Productivity

All documents benefit to some extent, but the most noticeable improvements are seen when working with large assemblies and large assembly drawings. For example:

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• Hidden line view removed
• see navigation - panoramic, zoom and orbit
• Creation, viewing and editing drawing views

for details, consult: Productivity and performance improvements

Design Improvements

for details, consult: Open enhancements design

Expanded Interoperability

O Inventor 2018 offers new capabilities for mechanical engineers working with a variety of design data. You can continue to use imported mesh data in your designs and also leverage STL or OBJ files in Inventor 2D drawings. Surface data can be combined with other 3D data in the presentation environment for animations, exploded views and documentation. In addition to external data, the inventor 2018 helps you work with other Autodesk file formats. BIM content workflows enable direct publishing of Revit files (.rfa). DWG Underlay has been enhanced to streamline workflows when integrating your 2D data within 3D designs. AnyCAD has been enhanced to allow Inventor 2018 be compatible with Inventor 2017.

Mesh

Support for displaying and documenting mesh objects is added to drawing views. Mesh objects participate in all display types and can be scaled and annotated.

for details, consult Drawing support for mesh objects

Shrinkwrap e Shrinkwrap Substitutos

Shrinkwrap tools have been improved for more control, improved user interface and an improved workflow. You can leverage View and LOD representations to quickly define lightweight models.

BIM Content

BIM content has been enhanced to simplify, create and publish workflows. O Inventor 2018 lets you publish directly to IFC and Revit file formats (.rfa).

for details, consult Shrinkwrap and BIM content enhancements

AnyCAD (not available in Inventor LT)

with the inventor 2018, AnyCAD has been expanded to let you leverage Inventor files 2018 in your Inventor designs 2017. This means you can now work with others who are on previous versions of Inventor. or later than the version you are working on. To help you identify the version of an Inventor file, Open dialog now displays version of Inventor. inside.

Getting Started with Inventor 2017, you can reference future versions (most recent) of Inventor assembly and part files in an earlier version of Inventor. For example, you can now reference an Inventor part file 2018 no Inventor 2017.

O Inventor 2018 continues to enhance its core AnyCAD workflows through more robust support of new features you add to non-native Inventor files. After the source file is updated, your Inventor-based assets will be preserved.

for details, consult AnyCAD and Translator Features

DWG Underlay

New DWG Underlay features make working with DWGs faster.

• Import your DWG file directly into an assembly using the Place Components command.
• Select multiple DWG files when creating more than one underlying.
• Open an AutoCAD DWG file directly from the right-click context menu of the Part or Assembly Model Browser node in Inventor.
• Automatically project certain types of DWG geometry when you enable new application options Sketch Autoproject edges during option curve creation.
• If Selected DWG Underlay Geometry Is Inside XY Plane, YZ or XZ, the resulting joint is created in the same plane as the sketch, in the same way that a join is created between Inventor 2D geometry.
• Create a join on the same plane as the sketch in the same way a join is created between 2D Inventor geometry: If the selected DWG Underlay geometry is inside the XY plane, YZ or XZ, the resulting joint is created in the same plane as the sketch.

  legacy inventor	Inventor 2018

for details, consult Underlay DWG enhancements

presentations

The presentation environment in Inventor 2018 now allows surface data support. Your surface files can be included in:

• window selection
• component settings
• Use surfaces to guide the triad

Added in 2017R2: Several edit actions have been added to the timeline to allow for Group selections, Everything Before and After. You can also create a new presentation file directly from the browser from an open assembly.

for details, consult: presentation enhancements

The Inventor's Experience

O Inventor 2018 continues to focus on customer Inventor idea requests, on feedback and providing a delightful experience within Inventor. Customer-driven enhancements across Inventor 2018 improve core workflows and model interaction. Commands like Chamfer, Assembly Interference Analysis, Extrude and Hole added options based on your direct feedback. Furthermore, Browser and Measure have been updated to provide a more feature-rich experience for all Inventor users.

The following enhancements have been implemented directly from their comments posted on Inventor® Ideas .

New and improved workflows and measurement charts

Inventor measurement tools and workflows have been greatly simplified and improved to increase productivity. Now you can:

• Use a single measure command!
• Run all measurement workflows from the new measurement tools panel.
• Display rich information for each selection with a single click.
• Easily measure angles and identify measurement selections in the graphics window.
• Easily identify measurement selections in the graphics window.
• Additional productivity improvements.

for details, consult Measurement Improvements

browser tools

Save time with exciting new browser tools.

• Find things quickly and easily in the current active document with new browser search.
• In an assembly file, use as filter tools to narrow your search (not available in Inventor LT).
• Move and snap each tab to your preferred way of working. The following image is an example of a side-by-side snap.

  

for details, consult Browser Improvements.

Open Assembly

• Quickly open Full or Express from the drop-down list dialog box.
• The Find command moves to the bottom section of the dialog.

for details, consult Open mount improvements

parts creation

• Extrusion: Use the new Distance from Face option in the Extrude dialog box to start an extrusion from a face or workplane with a distance. How Distance from Face Creates a Center Entry Point for Modifying Geometry, no additional steps are needed to make sketches or work plans.

  

• chamfer: Now you can create a chamfer that doesn't require a full edge. a new tab, Partial, is added to the Chamfer dialog to support creating partial chamfers.

  

• Hole:
  • You can now create a symmetrical hole type that extrudes in two directions. Flip Termination button is replaced by Direction1 and Direction buttons 2. Symmetric distance is only available for the Drilled hole type - Simple Hole - Through All.
  • Now you can specify zero (0) as a value for hole depth in Spotface holes. As a result, you can now place a spotface hole on the termination face of a body.
  • Use the new option, Extend Start, in the Hole dialog to extend the start face of a hole to the first place where it does not intersect the target body. The purpose of extending the start is to remove a fragment resulting from the creation of the hole.

for details, consult:

• Extrude improvements
• Hole enhancements
• bevel improvements

graphics

• Export to PDF:

  

  • From and To values ​​specified for Sheets in range are no longer session based.
  • the new option, View published file in Viewer, when selected, displays sheets in Adobe Acrobat Reader after clicking Save.
• Text border option: Add a text border around the text and leader text.

  

for details, consult:

• Export to PDF Drawing Enhancement
• Improved text annotations

Parameters

The Parameter dialog is enhanced to include a per-column and per-resource consumed filter.

for details, consult Productivity and performance improvements

2018 News Topics

• General
  • Productivity and performance improvements
  • Browser Enhancements
  • Measurement Improvements
  • Rating Improvements
  • general improvements
• Parts
  • Model-Based Definition
  • sheet metal upgrades
  • Extrude improvements
  • Hole enhancements
  • bevel improvements
  • iLogic Improvements
• assemblies
  • Mounting kit enhancements
  • Shrinkwrap and BIM content enhancements
• graphics
  • Open drawing enhancements
  • Drawing support for mesh objects
  • Improved text annotations
  • Export to PDF Drawing Enhancement
• Interoperability
  • AnyCAD and Translator Improvements
  • Underlay DWG Improvements
• Collaboration
  • AnyCAD for Inventor
  • presentation enhancements

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