Manufacturing tolerances have a significant impact on cost and quality. Tradeoffs can be made to ensure proper fit; however, calculating stack-ups manually introduces the potential for errors. Inventor Tolerance Analysis is designed to help Inventor users make informed decisions while specifying manufacturing tolerances. Inventor Tolerance Analysis is a CAD-embedded, 1D solution that helps you understand the mechanical fit and performance of your design based on dimensional tolerances. Stack-ups automatically capture the relationships defined in the assembly model and customers using model-based definition (MBD) capabilities can edit tolerance values directly inside Tolerance Analysis, further streamlining the process between design and manufacturing. The Tolerance Analysis plug-in is a subscription benefit for all Product Design & Manufacturing Collection customers. Join us for this Tolerance Analysis Lab, where you’ll be able to get your hands on the software and put it through its paces!

Manufacturing tolerances have a significant impact on cost and quality. Tradeoffs can be made to ensure proper fit; however, calculating stack-ups manually introduces the potential for errors. Autodesk Inventor Tolerance Analysis is designed to help Inventor users make informed decisions while specifying manufacturing tolerances. Inventor Tolerance Analysis is a CAD-embedded, 1D solution that helps understand the mechanical fit and performance of your design based on dimensional tolerances. Stack-ups automatically capture the relationships defined in the assembly model and customers using Model-Based Definition capabilities can edit tolerance values directly inside Tolerance Analysis, further streamlining the process between design and manufacturing.

This class will help attendees to understand the problems caused by tolerances in manufacturing, and how to plan them out using the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection subscription benefit of the Tolerance Analysis plug-in for Inventor software. After discussing where tolerance problems come from, and discovering how tolerancing problems can affect assembly of manufactured parts, we’ll show how to analyze assemblies using Inventor Tolerance Analysis. We’ll demonstrate how to apply tolerance to native and non-native CAD data. We’ll demonstrate how Tolerance Analysis provides bidirectional support with Inventor software’s 3D annotation and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) model-based definition (MBD). We’ll discuss how to interpret the results of the analysis and show how to share a report of the results. We’ll give tips and tricks on how to get the best out of Tolerance Analysis. If we have time, we’ll discuss what’s already available inside Inventor for Tolerance Analysis that is available to non-Product Design & Manufacturing Collection customers.

In this session, we'll look at a workflow that goes from a drawing to the output of technical documentation for high-volume production using multiple setups and machines. It starts with raw material and the use of parametric modeling and model states to break up the individual operations. From there we can use Inventor Tolerance Analysis to determine stackups and points of high risk during machining. The model is then translated to Autodesk Fusion 360 software for its machining capabilities. It quickly shows the machine library and tooling library capabilities. The Fusion 360 CAM validates cycle times and interference checks. Fusion 360 CAM data is then exported. With Inventor, the part is then made into technical drawings. Tooling and inspection documents are then populated with all the necessary data. Any part updates can be driven parametrically, validated, and updated on demand.

Learn about Inventor software's current and ongoing investments in Model-Based Definition (MBD) and join in conversations and exercises that contribute to Autodesk, Inc.'s, MBD vision as it pertains to our CAD solutions. This class requires an NDA, a fundamental understanding of MBD, a vision of your own incorporation of this technology, and a willingness to participate in a lively group discussion. We will explore concepts that include reduced need for traditional 2D drawings, how MBD and MBE (Model-Based Enterprise) supports automated manufacturing and inspection, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) annotation versus coordinate tolerancing, viewing and sharing solutions, and tolerance analyses.

This session will discuss how the Autodesk Inventor API can be used to extract key geometric data from CAD models, that is then analysed using well know computational geometric techniques, for the purpose of rapid material selection and optimisation. This information can be used for anything from generating a rapid estimate for raw material costs, down to ready-to-purchase, optimised material selection, for multi-thousand part assemblies, in hours rather than weeks. It will also go on to discuss possible further use of this data, such as rapid machining estimates, nesting, or automated tolerance or surface finish selection in a model-based definition set up.