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Reviewing different file types

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Reviewing different file types

- [Voiceover] Now that you've been given an overview of the home dashboard, we can take a minute and look at the individual file types that are available in Autodesk Inventor. Remember, here in the New section, you can see each of those file types. There's a Part, Assembly, Drawing, or Presentation. I've opened one of each of these at the bottom of the screen here in the tabs, so that we can look at them more closely. The first type we'll look at is HeatSink.ipt. This is an Inventor part file. It's also the most basic file you use in Inventor, and the most common as well. Anything you're gonna create is gonna start out as a part file. Once you have a group of part files, you may connect those together into a larger file called an assembly file. And we'll look at that in just a second. In the individual part file, you can see things that were used to create this. For example, the extrusion that was the basic cube, the extrusion that cut out part of the heat sink, the holes that we've…

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