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Review different file types

Review different file types - Inventor Tutorial

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Review different file types

- 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 and opened 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 heatsink.ipt. This is an inventor part file, indicated by the .ipt extension. An inventor part file is the most basic or most simply type of thing you're going to create in Autodesk Inventor. The idea is you 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,…

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