Exploring Application Options and Settings for Part Modeling

As in previous chapters, you should make sure your settings in Application Options match the approach we're using in this book. This will ensure that the examples you work on will match the results you see here.

Specifying Global Settings

You maintain global settings for Autodesk Inventor within the Application Options dialog box. For this section of the chapter, you will be concentrating on the Part tab in Application Options, which allows you to maintain part-specific settings. You can adjust the application settings as follows:

  1. On the Tools tab, click Application Options.
  2. Then choose the Part tab, as shown in Figure 4.1.

FIGURE 4.1: Part tab

Here are the Part tab settings along ...

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