Overview
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Learn everything you need to know about product and manufacturing design with Autodesk Inventor 2017. Learn about sketching, part modeling, assembly building, and drawing.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Certification overview
- Interface changes in 2017
- Exploring major workflow steps
- Home Dashboard
- Reviewing different file types
- Project file introduction
- Creating a project
- Setting up the project file
- Using the ViewCube
- Using the navigation tools
- Using the browser
- Using the ribbon bar
- Using the Quick Access Toolbar
- Using the marking menu
- Sketching introduction
- Working with origin geometry
- Understanding constraints
- Drawing lines
- Creating rectangles and arcs
- Creating splines
- Construction geometry
- Dimensioning
- Parameters
- Trim, extend, and split tools
- Offsetting sketch geometry
- Pattern and mirror sketch geometry
- Understanding work features
- Creating offset work planes
- Creating work planes
- Creating work axes and points
- Projecting geometry
- Importing AutoCAD data
- Part feature introduction
- Creating a base extrusion feature
- Creating an extrusion to next face
- Creating revolves
- Creating complex shapes with the loft tool
- Adding control to a loft by creating rails
- Creating a sweep feature
- Creating a sweep feature with model edges
- Adding placed holes
- Adding sketched holes
- Adding threaded holes
- Modifying edges with fillets and chamfers
- Hollowing parts with the shell feature
- Creating rectangular feature patterns
- Adding intelligence to a rectangular pattern
- Creating rectangular feature patterns along a path
- Creating circular feature patterns
- Mirroring part features
- Sketch pattern
- T-Splines introduction
- Creating a base form
- Understanding the Edit Form tool
- Taking advantage of symmetry
- Inserting and modifying edges
- Assemblies introduction
- Placing components
- Creating and editing components in an assembly
- Placing fasteners from the content center
- Mate/Flush constraint
- Angle constraint
- Insert constraint
- Driving constraints
- Translational constraint
- Motion constraint
- Contact sets
- Adding materials to parts in an assembly
- Visual styles
- Enhancing the design experience with visual settings
- Exploring initial drawing creation
- Placing views base and projected views
- Creating section views
- Creating detail views
- Creating breakout views
- Creating general dimensions
- Changing dimension precision
- Creating baseline, ordinate, and chain dimensions
- Next steps
