Do you have standards?

 The Student download of Autodesk Inventor Professional is a fully functional offering that has an incredibly broad array of tools. It is lacking one thing though; standards.

 In order to save a lot of time for students who want to casually use the software the decision was made not to include all of the standard content (nuts, bold, etc.) that are included in the version that is sent to customers on several DVDs. From the lack of e-mail requesting additional standards I would have to say that this has gone largely unnoticed. There have been a few people looking for additional content and therefore we are making the additional Libraries available for download individually from the Education Community so you can choose which ones you may need. To download the additional Content Standards you want simply go to the Software Downloads page on the Education Community and select the link to 'Download Inventor Content Libraries'

Here is an overview of each of the files so that you can decide whether you want to access them:

ANSI: American National Standards Institute.
This library contains the English and Metric fasteners and components commonly used in the United States of America.
File name: AI2010_Inventor ANSI.zip
File size: 454mb

 

DIN: Deutsches Institut fur Normung.
This library contains the content for the German components standard.
File name: AI2010_Invnetor DIN.zip
File size: 123mb

 

GOST: Gosudarstvennyy Standart.
This library contains the content for the Russian components standard.
File name: AI2010_Inventor GOST.zip
File size: 260mb

 

ISO: International Standards Organization.
This library contains the content commonly used in much of the world for Metric components. Note: this content is installed by default using the Student download of Autodesk Inventor.
File name: AI2010_Inventor ISO
File size: 99mb

 

JIS & GB: Japanese Industrial Standards and Guobiao.
This library contains the content for the Japanese and Chinese component standards.
File name: AI2010_Inventor JIS & GB.zip
File size: 227mb

 

Other:  Misc content.
This library contains additional components that are infrequently used or are members of less common standards.
File name: AI2010_Inventor OTHER.zip
File size: 515mb

 

Parker:
This library contains components manufactured by the Parker Hannifin Corporation© used for routing Hydraulic and Pneumatic lines.
File name: AI2010_Inventor Parker.zip
File size: 25mb

 

Routed Systems:
This library contains components commonly used for piping, tubing, and wire harness routing tools.
File name: AI2010_Inventor Routed Systems.zip
File size: 3mb

 

Sheet Metal:
This library contains specialty components used in sheet metal production such as pressed in fasteners.
File name: AI2010_Inventor Sheet Metal.zip
File size: 21mb

 

Features:
This library contains pre-defined solid modeling features such as blocks and cylinders that will create or cut geometry when placed in a part file.
File name: AI2010_Inventor Feature.zip
File size: 1.5mb    

  It would be highly unusual for anyone to need more than a couple of the connector libraries but I do recommend downloading the Parker, Routed Systems and Sheet Metal libraries to be able to work with the great Tutorials that Inventor has.

Comments

[G.J.Vos]

"....From the lack of e-mail requesting additional standards...."
Sounds almost like you're a bit disappointed there :-)
Over here (Netherlands, that is) we do have standards - increasingly on a european level, but the industry proves to be quite slow on the digital uptake. What I've seen earlier in the Content Centre (when I used Inventor 11) looks promising but still needed a lot of work to be of real, ie. practical use. But that's my view then - it might already have been improved a lot! I'll try to 'cure' my ignorance in this :-)

Thanks Thom.

[Thom]

Please take a look not just at the Content Center but what the Content enables. In an Assembly file go to the Design Tab and look at some of the tools there. There are tutorials for Bolted Connections, Bearings, etc. Many of the Design Accelerators depend on the availability of Standard Content.

I'm hoping that not only industry picks up on these tools but that someday academia will look to tools like these to help students better understand and more quickly learn the importance of these calculations.