Model-Based Definitions in Autodesk Inventor 2023

Following on from this post back in 2020, I thought I would provide a brief update to the latest additions to this (in my opinion) massively under-used feature inside Autodesk Inventor 2023.

The most recent release of Autodesk Inventor has a set of user-requested, newly developed and updated features which you can highlight by going to the Tools tab > Highlight New drop-down, and then selecting both Property Panel and Ribbon:

One new addition to the Annotate Tab inside Inventor 2023 is the Datum Target Annotation:

This allows us to specify a datum for any component which requires one:

One cool feature of Model Based Definitions (MBD) inside Autodesk Inventor 2023 is that you are able to include them when exporting to the .stp format:

This in turn allows a recipient of the output .stp file to open your exported data and it includes the relevant dimensions:

Another cool feature of MBD is that you can save views in your part/assembly and use those views downstream in an Inventor drawing:

Here at Man and Machine we have recently handed over a customer project that utilises MBD to create drawing sheets potentially containing hundreds (and I do mean hundreds) of these types of Dimensions automatically, so if that is something that interests you, then please get in touch via the usual channels.