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Transcript
00:03
Hello, my name is Thom Tremblay.
00:06
In this course, we'll be taking a look at an overall bridge design workflow,
00:11
and in these lessons will be focusing on how Autodesk Inventor can be used to create custom components,
00:17
to be used in InfraWorks for your bridge designs.
00:21
In this lesson, we'll be completing the design of our pier by testing it and exporting it.
00:30
Continuing on with our design, I'm going to rename the fillet features, fillet left and fillet right.
00:38
Then at the top of the browser, you can see that I presently have multiple tabs.
00:43
I have my Model tab, an iLogic tab, and the Favorites tab.
00:48
If your browser doesn't display the iLogic tab, you can select the plus sign at the top of the browser and select the iLogic option.
00:58
Right clicking in the iLogic browser, I want to select "Add form".
01:03
iLogic is a powerful tool for building configurations of your models,
01:08
leveraging the parameters and the suppression of features to create entirely new parts.
01:14
These parts cannot just be pre-configured like you would in iPart,
01:18
but they can be configured automatically based on parameter inputs as you create them,
01:24
including the ability to change parameters based on if then statements,
01:29
and other complex rules without having to think every option through beforehand.
01:35
In the form editor, I'll change the label to pier testing, and then I'll select a few parameters.
01:43
We can grab pier height and drag it into the window, pier cap left and pier cap right with.
01:49
We could also grab others if you like.
01:52
And on the right, you'll see a preview of our form with the current values for those parameters.
02:01
After clicking "OK", the new form will appear in the browser.
02:07
Clicking on the form will bring up the dialogue,
02:11
where I can enter values for the different parameters, and upon pressing the "Enter" key the model will update to follow.
02:23
You can test these parameters or any others that you like to see how this form works.
02:29
You can also create multiple forms to explore.
02:33
I'll put the model back to roughly where it was, go to my Home view,
02:39
and then switch to the Environments tab and select the "Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities" tool.
02:49
This will bring up the new toolbar where we could apply features to a model to export to InfraWorks.
02:56
But for our model, we'll just simply select Export template.
03:01
We'll set a path for the template, and establish a name, and select "Export".
03:11
When the export is done,
03:13
we can close the dialogue and note that the file that is now being displayed is not the one we were working in but the one we exported.
03:25
We can finish the infrastructure and return back to the parametric model.
Video transcript
00:03
Hello, my name is Thom Tremblay.
00:06
In this course, we'll be taking a look at an overall bridge design workflow,
00:11
and in these lessons will be focusing on how Autodesk Inventor can be used to create custom components,
00:17
to be used in InfraWorks for your bridge designs.
00:21
In this lesson, we'll be completing the design of our pier by testing it and exporting it.
00:30
Continuing on with our design, I'm going to rename the fillet features, fillet left and fillet right.
00:38
Then at the top of the browser, you can see that I presently have multiple tabs.
00:43
I have my Model tab, an iLogic tab, and the Favorites tab.
00:48
If your browser doesn't display the iLogic tab, you can select the plus sign at the top of the browser and select the iLogic option.
00:58
Right clicking in the iLogic browser, I want to select "Add form".
01:03
iLogic is a powerful tool for building configurations of your models,
01:08
leveraging the parameters and the suppression of features to create entirely new parts.
01:14
These parts cannot just be pre-configured like you would in iPart,
01:18
but they can be configured automatically based on parameter inputs as you create them,
01:24
including the ability to change parameters based on if then statements,
01:29
and other complex rules without having to think every option through beforehand.
01:35
In the form editor, I'll change the label to pier testing, and then I'll select a few parameters.
01:43
We can grab pier height and drag it into the window, pier cap left and pier cap right with.
01:49
We could also grab others if you like.
01:52
And on the right, you'll see a preview of our form with the current values for those parameters.
02:01
After clicking "OK", the new form will appear in the browser.
02:07
Clicking on the form will bring up the dialogue,
02:11
where I can enter values for the different parameters, and upon pressing the "Enter" key the model will update to follow.
02:23
You can test these parameters or any others that you like to see how this form works.
02:29
You can also create multiple forms to explore.
02:33
I'll put the model back to roughly where it was, go to my Home view,
02:39
and then switch to the Environments tab and select the "Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities" tool.
02:49
This will bring up the new toolbar where we could apply features to a model to export to InfraWorks.
02:56
But for our model, we'll just simply select Export template.
03:01
We'll set a path for the template, and establish a name, and select "Export".
03:11
When the export is done,
03:13
we can close the dialogue and note that the file that is now being displayed is not the one we were working in but the one we exported.
03:25
We can finish the infrastructure and return back to the parametric model.
Lesson: Testing parameters and exporting data
In this lesson, we will test the performance of the Pier parameters and export the data for use in InfraWorks.
Learning Objectives:
• Create an iLogic form to test model parameters
• Exercise model parameters using the form
• Export the model for use with InfraWorks
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