Mastering Autodesk® Inventor® 2012 and Autodesk® Inventor LT™ 2012

Managing Assembly Detail

In Chapter 8, you learned about creating LOD representations within your assemblies to reduce the memory requirements of working with large assemblies. Here you will consider how you can use these LOD representations to be more successful in your large assembly pursuits.

LOD Strategies

All Inventor assemblies have four default LODs predefined and ready for you to use. Learning to use these and creating your own LODs is an important part of working with large assemblies. The default LODs are as follows:

Master This shows your assembly with no parts suppressed. You can think of this as the highest level of detail for any ...