LiveLink™ for Inventor®: Add-in for Autodesk Inventor

If you have licensed LiveLink™ for Inventor®, the installer registers an add-in for Autodesk Inventor called the LiveLink for COMSOL (5.2a). This add-in should appear in the Add-In Manager dialog box 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. For example, you can set up dimensional parameters that, together with the geometry, are synchronized with the COMSOL model.

The add-in enables two modes of setting up simulations based on the Inventor design:

•	In one mode you can run Inventor and the COMSOL Desktop side-by-side and synchronize the geometry between the two.

•	In another mode you can work with COMSOL simulations inside Inventor. This latter mode is called the One-Window interface.

If COMSOL cannot connect to Inventor, you can re-install COMSOL, or follow the instructions from the following link:

http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1163.