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Animating the Assembly

In this section, you will see how you can use Autodesk Inventor 3D assembly designs for other applications such

as creating assembly instructions, maintenance guides, marketing materials, and so forth.

The Presentation Environment

Now you are going to switch to a new working mode, the presentation environment. In this environment, you

can modify the orientation or visibility of the parts in your assemblies without affecting the actual assembly files.

You can then use the presentation files to create assembly drawings with assembled or exploded views on the

same drawing sheet, or even create animations that show how parts should be assembled or disassembled.

To create a new presentation file:

1. On the Standard toolbar, click the New tool.

2. In the Open dialog box, on the Default tab, double-click Standard.ipn.

A new presentation file is created and the Panel bar now displays the

Presentation tools.

To create a presentation view of your clamp assembly:

1. On the Panel bar, click the Create View tool.

2. In the Select Assembly dialog box, click the Explore Directories

button to the right of the File list.

3. Select Clamp_complete.iam and click Open.

4. In the Select Assembly dialog box, ensure the Manual option is selected

and then click OK.

5. In the graphics window, right-click and choose Isometric View.

Before you start to rearrange the parts in this presentation, let’s change to a

different isometric view.

1. Click the Rotate tool.

2. With the Rotate tool active, press the spacebar to go into Common View

mode.

The Orbit circle is now replaced with a Common View cube and arrows.

3. Click the green arrow shown in the image to the right.

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