Inventor 2008 Training Course on DVD

The Autodesk® Inventor™ product line is the best choice for AutoCAD® software users who want to add the power of 3D to their design process. Inventor software products provide a comprehensive and integrated set of design tools for 3D design and documentation, creating routed systems, and validating designs. Inventor products also include data management software and the latest version of AutoCAD® Mechanical for 2D drawing and detailing. With true DWG™ interoperability, the Inventor products deliver the enhanced productivity of 3D without sacrificing your AutoCAD expertise and designs. It's no wonder Autodesk Inventor is the best-selling 3D mechanical design software on the market.

Your Trainer

Daniel T. Banach, is a recognized expert, author and educator in the Mechanical CAD field. He has fifteen years of experience consulting and implementing 3D CAD solutions to nationally known companies and is a
highly sought after instructor and long-time speaker at Autodesk University. As an
Autodesk Registered Author, Dan has written three books on Mechanical Desktop
and has co-authored nine books on Autodesk Inventor.

Training Time

127 video lessons over 14 hours - Actual Videos are 1024 X 768

Inventor 2008 Training Course Covers

Getting Started

• Getting started with Autodesk Inventor
• Creating a Single User Project
• Changing Inventor's Application Options
• Inventor's User Interface and Help Tools
• Inventor Command, customizing short cuts and Undo and Redo tool
• Inventor's viewing tools

Sketch, Constraining and Dimensioning

• Inventor's Sketch and Part Application Options, Units and Templates
• Sketches and Default Planes, auto project origin, planes, new sketch
• Inventor's 2D sketching tools
• Selecting and Deleting Objects
• Measuring sketches and parts
• Adding 2D sketch constraints
• 2D sketch constraints
• Construction geometry
• Snaps and dragging
• Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch tools
• Applying sketch dimensions
• Importing AutoCAD DWG file
• Overview technique to open SAT, STEP, ProE, DXF, IGES files

Creating and Editing Sketched Features

• Introduction to features
• Define active sketch
• Extrude a sketch
• Revolve a sketch
• Editing a feature and a features sketch
• 3D Grip option and the Move Face tool
• Rename feature, feature color, delete feature, Project edges

Creating Placed Features

• Create fillet features
• Create chamfer features
• Create hole features
• Create thread features
• Create shell features
• Create face draft features
• Create work axis and work planes features- Part I
• Create work axis and work planes features- Part II
• Create work points and grounded work points
• Controlling the visibility of work features
• Creating rectangular patterns
• Creating circular patterns
• Creating linear patterns

Creating and Editing Drawing Views

• Starting and preparing a drawing
• Creating base and projected views
• Creating auxiliary, section and detail views
• Creating broken views
• Creating break out views
• Creating and Editing Slice Views
• Creating draft views
• Editing drawing views
• Retrieving model dimensions and placing drawing dimensions
• Create baseline dimensions
• Create ordinate dimensions
• Working with Styles
• Moving dimensions in a drawing view
• Adding centerlines to drawings
• Placing text and symbols in a drawing
• Placing hole notes and chamfer notes
• Creating a hole table
• Create a table in a drawing

Creating and Documenting Assemblies

• Creating an assembly file and the assembly browser
• Inserting Parts and creating parts in place
• Create a subassembly and work with grounded parts.
• Apply basic assembly constraints
• Apply motion constraints
• Enable, disable and control the visibility of components.
• Edit components in an assembly and isolate constraint errors.
• Create adaptive parts
• Pattern assembly components
• Analysis tools in an assembly
• Drive assembly constraint to simulate motion
• Create a presentation file
• Create drawing views from an assembly and presentation file
• Place balloons, create a parts list and edit it via a bill of material
• Create a revision table

Advanced Sketching and Constraining Techniques

• Import points and create splines
• Create and edit pattern sketches.
• Share and copy a sketch
• Use the 2D mirror tool and symmetric constraint
• Slice the graphics in a part and assembly.
• Change the display of dimensions and create a relationship between dimensions.
• Parameters and spreadsheets

Advanced Part Modeling Techniques

• Use open profiles to create a feature
• Create ribs and webs
• Emboss text and sketches
• Sweep features
• 3D sketches
• Coil feature
• Loft features
• Create and edit surfaces
• Split a face and part
• Copy and paste features
• Mirror features on a part
• Suppress, Conditionally Suppress, and reorder features and feature rollback
• Create a derived part and assembly
• Create AutoLimits

Design Automation Techniques

• Create iMates
• Create, use and document iParts
• Create, use and document iAssemblies
• Create iFeatures and reuse them on other parts
• Design views
• Create level of detail in an assembly and use when creating drawing views
• Flexible assemblies, positional representations and overlay drawing views.
• Use the contact solver
• Mirror components in an assembly
• Copy components in an assembly
• Create assembly features
• Content Center
• Design Accelerator
• Frame Generator

Sheet Metal Design

• Using sheet metal styles
• Face tool
• Contour Flange tool
• Flange tool
• HEM tool
• Fold tool
• Bend tool
• Cut tool
• Corner Seam tool
• Corner Round and Chamfer tool
• Punch Tool
• Creating flat pattern
• Common Sheet Metal and Feature Tools
• Document sheet metal designs

Weldments

• Creating a new weldment
• Weld preparations
• Create fillet and Groove (Gap) welds
• Create machining operations
• Document weldments

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