General Enhancements in Assembly

Browser icons

Icons in Express and Full mode are being adjusted to align the display between those environments. The following explains how icons appeared in 2018 and earlier releases and then shows how these will display from 2019 onward.

Legend

Express mode, left column; Full mode, right column

Solid, Surface, and Multi-body Icons in Full Mode

For 2018 and prior releases, in Express mode, solid, surface, and multi-body components were displayed using the standard part icon. When you switched to Full mode, the icons changed to display as a solid, surface, or multi-body component.

For 2019 and later, these components display the same browser icon in Full mode as when in Express mode.

Note: Based on customer feedback, we've gone back to the familiar surface and multi-body icons used in previous releases. See 2019.1 What's New.

Sheet Metal, iPart, and Content Center Icons in Express Mode

For 2018 and prior releases, in Express mode, Sheet Metal components, Content Center components, and iParts displayed with the standard part icon.

For 2019 and later, these components display the same icon in Express mode as when in Full mode.

Express Mode

The ability to resolve files when opening an assembly is now available in Express mode.

Frame Generator CUTDETAIL Enhancement

Previously the values generated by applying the Trim/Extend command to cut angles on frame members were not available in the iProperties/Custom tab. In addition, the Frame Generator G_L parameter did not reliably report correct lengths.

These limitations are now resolved. In Inventor 2019:

• The Frame Generator G_L parameter reliably reports correct lengths.
• The values generated by applying the Trim/Extend command to cut angles display in the iProperties/Custom tab as CUTDETAIL1, CUTDETAIL2, etc. and can be included in the Bill of Materials and Parts List.

Note: Use the Rebuild All command to apply this behavior to models created in earlier versions of Inventor: Open an assembly file that was created in an earlier version and click Manage tab Update panel Rebuild All.

An Inventor® Ideas submission

For more information see, Frame Generator Components in BOMs and Cut Lists.