IAM (assembly) inside IPT (parts) file?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am quite new to Inventor (currently using the 2017 version). I usually do all my work in Revit.

The company that i'm working for has a BIM subcontractor that is struggling with the use of Inventor.

Now they've sent us their ipt-file so that we could troubleshoot it. See picture below. There is an iam-file (assembly) within the ipt-file. Is this normal?

(if anyone is interested, I could provide the ipt-file for further inspection)

Sigurd Bekkevold

Project Engineer

[S_May]

HI @Anonymous,

Iam = assembly
Ipt = component
If you want to clean work, then you need from the other employees also clean ipt (models) and iam (assembly)

Please upload your Group

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the fast reply.

By group, do you mean the ipt-file?

I'm not familiar with the term... 

[S_May]

IAM + IPT as ZIP / RAR

[S_May]

Hi @Anonymous,

So should look a simple assembly:

[salariua · Accepted solution]

What you see is normal.

That assembly is added as derived model. It is a common technique to simplify models and to provide single item (part, *.ipt extension) rather than a large number of items (assembly, *.iam extension)

Edit:

here are some resources.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014...

youtube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukvt4uuhxK0

or any of these:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inventor+derive+shrinkwrap+substitute&num=100&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB7...