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Inventor: Sheet Metal Design

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Overview

Learn to design detailed sheet metal parts with the specialized toolset in Autodesk Inventor.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Preparing to Create Your Parts
  • Creating sheet metal defaults in Inventor
  • Options for calculating flat patterns
2. Creating Sheet Metal Features
  • 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
3. Tools that Modify Parts
  • 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
4. Documenting Your Design
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Thom Tremblay

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