Autodesk® Inventor 2008

Tutorial Series

What You Will Learn: 127 video lessons over 14 hours

Your instructor, 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.

Topics covered: 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
Prerequisites: Inventor's viewing tools
None Sketch, Inventor's Sketch and Part Application Options, Units and
Constraining and Templates
Dimensioning Sketches and Default Planes, auto project origin, planes, new
Requirements: sketch
DVD requires Windows Inventor's 2D sketching tools
XP or higher.
Internet Explorer 6.0+ Selecting and Deleting Objects
Browser Measuring sketches and parts
Flash
DVD Drive Adding 2D sketch constraints
Pointing device 2D sketch constraints
1.8 GB Drive Space
Construction geometry
Online versions need Snaps and dragging
only a high speed
Internet connection, a Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch tools
browser and Adobe® Applying sketch dimensions
Flash.
Importing AutoCAD DWG file
Autodesk is a registered Overview technique to open SAT, STEP, ProE, DXF, IGES
trademark of Autodesk,
Inc. Adobe is a files
registered trademark of Creating and Introduction to features
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Editing Sketched Define active sketch
CADLearning is a Features Extrude a sketch
trademark of 4D Design
Solutions, LLC Revolve a sketch
Bedford, NH USA Editing a feature and a features sketch
Copyright © 2007 All 3D Grip option and the Move Face tool
Rights Reserved Rename feature, feature color, delete feature, Project edges
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 Creating Placed Create fillet features
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 Starting and preparing a drawing
Editing Drawing Creating base and projected views
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 Creating an assembly file and the assembly browser
Documenting Inserting Parts and creating parts in place
Assemblies 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
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 Advanced Import points and create splines
Sketching and Create and edit pattern sketches.
Constraining Share and copy a sketch
Techniques 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 Use open profiles to create a feature
Modeling Create ribs and webs
Techniques 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 Create iMates
Automation Create, use and document iParts
Techniques 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

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 Sheet Metal Using sheet metal styles
Design 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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