Learn to design detailed sheet metal parts with the specialized toolset in Autodesk Inventor.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Creating sheet metal defaults in Inventor
- Options for calculating flat patterns
- Starting with a face
- Adding flanges to your part
- Saving steps using a contour flange
- Exploring the options of the contour roll
- Cleaning up the edges with a hem
- Using the Bend feature to bring it all together
- How to reuse existing data with a fold operation
- Creating transitions with a lofted flange
- Making cuts in parts
- Using the corner seam to improve parts
- Working with the Punch tool
- Opening parts with the Rip tool
- Using specialized fasteners for sheet metal in an assembly
- Applying corner treatments
- Leveraging Unfold and Refold
- Productivity improvements using pattern tools
- Creating and editing a flat pattern
- Inserting a flat pattern into a drawing
- Special annotations for sheet metal
- Adding a bend table to a drawing
- Exporting the flat pattern for production
- Next steps
Taught by
Thom Tremblay
