From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2019 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Reviewing different file types

Reviewing different file types - Inventor Tutorial

From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2019 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Reviewing different file types

“

- [Instructor] Now that you've been given an overview of the home dashboard, we can take a minute and take a 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 tab so that we can look at them more closely. The first item we'll look at is heatsink.ipt. This is an inventor part file. It's also the most basic file you'll use in Inventor and the most common as well. Anything you're going to create is going to 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 base cube, the extrusion that cut out part of the heat sink, the holes…

Contents