Get up and running with Inventor 2021, the professional product and mechanical design software from Autodesk.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Design products with Autodesk Inventor 2020
- Use the exercise files
- Certification overview
- Explore major workflow steps
- Home dashboard
- Review different file types
- Create a practice project
- Set up the exercise files project
- Navigate using the ViewCube
- Navigate using the navigation tools
- Use the browser and right-click menu
- Introduce sketching
- Work with origin geometry
- Understand constraints
- Draw lines
- Create rectangles and arcs
- Create splines
- Construction geometry
- Dimensioning
- Parameters
- Extend and trim sketch geometry
- Offset sketch geometry
- Pattern and mirror sketch geometry
- Understand work features
- Create offset workplanes
- Create additional types of workplanes
- Create a workpoint and work axis
- Project geometry
- Part feature introduction
- Create a base extrusion
- Create an extrusion to next face
- Create revolves
- Create a sweep
- Complex shapes with the Loft tool
- Controlling lofts with rails
- Introduction to organic shapes with T-Splines
- Create a base T-Splines form
- Editing sculpted shapes using edit form
- Add concentric holes
- Add linear holes
- Add threaded holes
- Modify edges with fillets and chamfers
- Hollow a part with the shell feature
- Create rectangular feature patterns
- Create circular patterns
- Mirror part features
- Introduction to assemblies
- Place components
- Create and edit components in an assembly
- Mate and Flush constraint
- Angle constraint
- Insert constraint
- Drive constraints
- Explore initial drawing creation
- Place base and projected views
- Create section views
- Create detail views
- Create general dimensions
- Change dimension precision
- Create baseline, ordinate, and chain dimensions
- Next steps
Taught by
John Helfen