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Product: Inventor 2009

Topic: Inventor Tools

Written by: Brad Botner, Support Specialist

Date: December 24, 2008

Have you ever wondered what all these Inventor Tools do? Well, you may be missing out on a valuable tool that

could save you countless hours on a task that these Inventor Tools could accomplish in just a few seconds. You

can access these tools via Start>Inventor 2009>Tools

The tools available to you are:

1. Add In Manager

2. Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard

3. Project Editor

4. Style Library Manager

5. Style Management Wizard

6. Task Scheduler

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Let’s first take a look at the Add In Manager, a tool that allows you easily control the load up behavior of the

available add ins. This may also be accessed inside Inventor as well. Don’t forget to visit

www.labs.autodesk.com for the free Catia V5 translator add-in for your Inventor 2009.

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The Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard allows you to quickly transfer your .idw or .dwg drawing resources from

one drawing to another. For example, if you had sketched symbols or a title block that you need brought over into

another drawing, you can use this wizard to quickly transfer these objects.

From here, you select your source drawing.

Select the items that you want to transfer. You do not have to transfer all the drawing resource items.

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Then select the target drawings. You have successfully transferred the drawing Resource components.

The next tool is the Project Editor. The Project Editor is a quick way to manage your project files outside of

Inventor. A nice tool for any CAD Manager.

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The next tool is the Style Library Manager. This tool will allow you to easily delete material styles or migrate

styles from one Library to another and will allow you to compare mismatches between style standards. Any items

shown in blue are unique behavior setups; any items listed in red are items that are different for the two style

libraries. The Style Library Manager user interface has three sections. The pane at left lists the Inventor objects.

The center pane lists one of the style libraries and its setups based on the Inventor object selected in the left

pane. The pane on the right lists the other style library directory that you’re comparing to. Selecting any Inventor

object lists the behaviors and allows you to add that behavior to the other style library via the >> button in the

middle of the dialogue box. The three buttons vertically placed in the center of the dialogue box allow you to filter

the displayed styles from All Styles to Mismatched Styles to Unique Styles. Once you’re done moving object

behaviors around, you simply exit the Style Library Manger and get on with your day.

The Style Management Wizard is a tool that allows you to Harvest Styles or Purge Styles from a standard.

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Starting out, you need to specify a project file to work on. After selecting a project file, you then select a file or

multiple files that contain styles within them which you need to make available to other files. You are also given

the capability of adding all the files associated with this particular project file.

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The next screen allows you to specify if you want these harvested styles to be placed in a new style library that

you designate, or place them into a pre-existing style library.

Once you hit Start, the process begins and gives a status screen after the operation is complete.

Now, what about purging? What does the Purge option do exactly? The Purge option looks at the same file or

files that you selected and removes all unused styles from your files. This is most beneficial on large assemblies

as removing the unused styles can reduce the memory footprint of that large assembly.

The Supplier Content Center takes you to the Mfg Community where you have the ability to download content.

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The Task Scheduler has many tools to help you automate many routine tasks.

You can use the Task Scheduler to migrate files, update designs, publish .DWF files, print, import and export

files, check in and out of vault and batch convert .IDW to DWG. You can also create your own custom task as

well. Take some time to see how this valuable tool can save you some time.