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Review different file types - Inventor Tutorial

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Review different file types

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- [Instructor] Now that you've learned how the dashboard is configured, let's take a minute and look at each of the individual file types that you can create in AutoDesk Inventor. I've taken a minute to open one of each of the files below here in the tab. So that we can quickly scan through them. We're going to start with Heat Sink.ipt. This is an Inventor part file. Indicated by the .ipt extension. An Inventor part file is the most basic or simple type of thing you're going to create in AutoDesk Inventor. The idea is you'll create a number of parts and then combine them into an assembly to see how they work together. What's important about the part file here is you're seeing the 3D graphics in the graphics window. And that is very specifically linked to the information here in the browser. If you hover over any of the items in the browser, you can see the feature highlight in the graphics window. And what we're seeing here, and will learn more and more about this throughout the course, are features. Extrusions, holes, chamfers, mirrors. All of the individual items that you can create in order to create a part file. Once you have your part files, you can then move on to assemblies. Here is an engine.iam, which is an assembly file. And here on the top, you can see the heat sink that we were just looking at. It's sitting on top of the engine block in the assembly. What's important here is the browser is now changed to represent instead of features that make up this model, they're the individual parts that make up this model. Now below each of those, you have things like work planes and work geometry. And constraints that show how a part is positioned and how it can move within this assembly. Next, we have the IDW file. This is inventors default drawing file. And it's used to create views of your models so that they can be manufactured. Once you have a part or assembly created, you can create a new drawing of either of those. And add things like dimensions, projected views or isometric views. Leader lines, surface finish things, items you're going to need to present to somebody in order for them to manufacture this part. Finally, we have IPN files. IPN files are presentation files. We won't be covering those in this corse. But it's important that you know that they're available to you. They allow you to show how an assembly is put together or taken apart for easier manufacture.

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