Managing Autodesk Inventor iParts and iAssemblies

Many of you manufacture items that are similar in design or have a “base” design that you tweak slightly from project to project. You may use one drawing containing a table for the variations, or maybe you use “Save as” for each variation. If this sounds familiar, this webcast may provide a better solution for you. We will review Autodesk® Inventor® iPart and iAssembly authoring.

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:46 Creating iParts Demo
7:52 Suppress Features
10:58 Edit Via Spreadsheet
15:44 Factory Scope and Member Scope
18:34 Changing iPart Color
21:36 Placing iParts in an Assembly
23:45 Creating a Custom iPart
29:28 What is an iAssembly?
30:21 Methods for Creating iAssemblies
32:35 iAssembly Creation Demo
41:03 Component Replace
45:59 Exclude Components
48:58 Terminology Clarification
53:16 iAssembly vs iLogic
54:02 Custom iPart and Child Files
55:47 What Causes Inventor to Lag

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[chriswinther]

Hi When opening a Member iAssembly There is an option to break the link with the Master. It does not give me the same options to edit the assembly... any sygestions ?

[MBPerdersen]

I have an iAssembly with an "ISubassembly" where I make a Table Replace, almost exactly like your SmartPhone, just other parts. but when I look at Bill of Materials, on the iAssembly, it shows both the part from the "iSubAssembly" I have active, and the part I not have active.
Is there a way to fix this, so it only shows the active parts?

[peckdec]

Great video and I appreciate it. But I can't help but shake my head how bad the Inventor usability is. It was literally tragicomic when you were determining what features are suppressed and needed to type "Suppress". Very frustrated after forced to change from SolidWorks to Inventor.