CHAPTER 5

Customizing Styles and TemPlates

Consistent standards improve communication and quality. Inventor comes with several standards from around the world that can be used as a foundation for constructing a company-specific standard. In Inventor, these standards are based on a collection of styles. In this chapter, you will see how to modify a few of these styles to understand the process.

Another easy way to create consistency among several users is to use templates with these styles preconfigured. These templates can even be configured to shortcut the process of defining a part, assembly, or drawing.

  • Working with styles
  • Defining a new material
  • Defining a title block
  • Saving a new template
  • Creating a quick-start template

Working with Styles ...

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