LiveLink™ for Inventor® Installations
If you have licensed LiveLink™ for Inventor®, the installer registers an add-in for Autodesk Inventor called LiveLink for COMSOL (6.4). This add-in should appear in the Add-In Manager dialog that is accessible from the Options tab of the Tools panel in the Autodesk Inventor user interface.
The add-in provides tools for preparing your Inventor design for simulation with COMSOL Multiphysics. For example, you can set up dimensional parameters that, together with the geometry, are synchronized with the COMSOL Multiphysics model.
The add-in enables several modes of setting up simulations based on the Inventor design:
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In one mode you can run Inventor and the COMSOL Desktop side-by-side and synchronize the geometry between the two. This mode enables running parametric sweeps, as well as parameter optimizations using an optimization solver (available with a license for the Optimization Module).
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In another mode you can work with COMSOL Multiphysics simulations inside Inventor. This latter mode is called the One-Window interface.
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In offline synchronization mode you can save a synchronization file using the add-in inside Autodesk Inventor. You can then load the synchronization file into the COMSOL Desktop running on a different computer from the CAD software. This mode enables single synchronizations and parametric sweeps.
If COMSOL Multiphysics cannot connect to Inventor, run the COMSOL Installer to repair the installation, see www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1221 for instructions.
You can also install and register the add-in with Inventor by installing the COMSOL Client, available for download from www.comsol.com. Such an installation enables the functionality for preparing Inventor designs for synchronization, saving files for offline synchronization, and running simulation apps that synchronize geometry.