Hello Friends,
Hopefully AutoCAD 2013 is about to Launch in a
Month of time. Already Excited about the Expectations on Cool New Features.
But today am here today to Share the Power of Model
Documentation, which is again a New Feature Unwrapped in 2012 Release & We
also discuss about the Enhancements Expected for 2013 in Model Documentation.
Almost Every Platform Based Business Solution
Provider Uses AutoCad. AutoCad is inevitable for any Mechanical Industry. Even
though they use Inventor, Pro/E, Catia or Solid Works for 3d, when it comes to
2d AutoCad is Monopoly. And most of the Design Engineers feel much Comfortable
to do Detailing in Cad compared to other packages.
Looking in Business Perspective R&D Labs will
have Certain Seats for Some 3d cad Packages and few for CAM / CAE. But you may
find AutoCad in almost all the Machines. So once Part / Assembly Design is
over, the Detailing could be done in any of the machine and also by any
Designer / Even a Shop Floor Person as AutoCad is buddy for Every Technician.
AutoCad gives us two Options.
Create associative
drawings in layouts from AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor 3D models.
Import IGES, CATIA®,
Pro/ENGINEER®,STEP, Solid Works®, JT, NX, Parasolid and Rhinoceros®(Rhino)
files and generate drawings from them. >>Note: Inventor Model cannot be
loaded into AutoCAD 2012 <<
Interoperability of
AutoCAD with Inventor has many things to Enhance Productivity
Most of the Companies will have their Template,
Text & Dimension Styles more proper in .dwg format by native. When these
Templates & Line weight Settings were used in any of the 3D Modeling
Software, Sometimes people used to Complaint as they were unable to achieve the
Clarity which they get in AutoCad.
And Features like Dimbreak were not possible in
Inventor itself, Can be Done Easily with AutoCAD
Inventor Sheet metal Model Can be brought in
AutoCAD and we can retrieve Flat Pattern too.
Core Inventor Users will be familiar with Level of
Detail (LOD), Positional & Design View Representations.
Especially LOD is more helpful in Handling Large
Assemblies.
Picture Shown below is an Example for Varying
Combination done using Positional Representation in Inventor Assembly
Environment
Exploded Views (ipn Files) Can be Brought in With
Trails
Out of these I love Interoperability of Weldments
as you Can Get the Weld States!!
Inventor models can
show the weldment in different states.
The “Assembly” state displays the weldment
in its unwelded state.
The “Welds”state displays the weldment
after the pieces have been welded in place.
The “Machining” state shows the weldment
after post welding machining operations (if any). Additionally, you can display
each individual piece with any weld preparation it may have.
Refer Below picture,
I have used
MultiLeader with Blocks to Show Weld Symbols.
We knew that in
Inventor, Assembly Removal Features Common for Welded parts were grouped under
machining folder. It is great to retrieve Weld state & Machining State
Separately (Hole available in Machining alone – refer image)
What else then - Iparts and Iassembly !!!
Now the News for Model Documentation in AutoCad
2013
In the beginning of this Article I said it is not
Possible to Import Inventor files into Model tab.
But in AutoCAD 2013 we Can Import Inventor Files.
we Can Create Detail& Sectional Views !!
And Dimensions and Annotations were Associative in
Nature !! Let us Welcome AutoCad 2013
Mail your Valuable feedback to : rajesh@kkmsoft.com
Rajesh Srinivasan
Autodesk Certified Evaluator / Instructor
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