The environments within Inventor are purpose/task driven. When you enter an environment, all relevant commands and tools, and feedback to reinforce actions are available.
The base environments are also document or file types. All other types of environments in Autodesk Inventor, such as sketch, construction, and the specialized environments such as Studio, are not specific document or file types.
Base environments
- Part
- Sheet Metal Part
- Assembly
- Weldment Assembly
- Drawing
- Presentation
You can access the 2d and 3d sketch environments within the Part, Assembly, and Drawing base environments.
Within the Part, Assembly, and Drawing environments, specialized environments are available for performing certain tasks.
Assembly environment
The Assembly environment includes access to:
- Dynamic Simulation (Autodesk Simulation Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional )
- Stress Analysis (Autodesk Simulation Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional)
- Frame Analysis (Autodesk Simulation Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional)
- Inventor Studio
- BIM Exchange
- Cable and Harness (Autodesk Inventor Professional)
- Tube and Pipe (Autodesk Inventor Professional)
- Weldment (upon converting to weldment)
Part environment
The Part environment provides access to:
- Stress Analysis (Autodesk Simulation Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional)
- Inventor Studio
- BIM Exchange
- Sheet Metal (upon converting to Sheet metal)
Specialized environments
The specialized environments are available on the Environments tab. Each specialized environment has its own contextual tab, with commands specific to that environment. For example, when you enter the Studio environment, a new tab labeled Render displays in green. The green color indicates that you are working in a specialized environment.
On the far right of the ribbon, the Exit/Finish (environment) command returns you to the general working environment.
Use Return to leave in-place editing and quickly return to the desired environment. The destination depends on which modeling environment you are working in.
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