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Autodesk Inventor 2021 Essential Training

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Autodesk Inventor Courses Assembly Language Courses Product Design Courses Sketching Courses Mechanical Design Courses Part Modeling Courses

Course Description

Overview

Get up and running with Inventor 2021, the professional product and mechanical design software from Autodesk.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Design products with Autodesk Inventor 2020
  • Use the exercise files
  • Certification overview
1. Basic Concepts
  • Explore major workflow steps
  • Home dashboard
  • Review different file types
2. Leverage the Project
  • Create a practice project
  • Set up the exercise files project
3. Navigate the Interface
  • Navigate using the ViewCube
  • Navigate using the navigation tools
  • Use the browser and right-click menu
4. Sketch Concepts
  • Introduce sketching
  • Work with origin geometry
  • Understand constraints
5. Create Sketch Geometry
  • Draw lines
  • Create rectangles and arcs
  • Create splines
  • Construction geometry
  • Dimensioning
  • Parameters
6. Modify Sketch Geometry
  • Extend and trim sketch geometry
  • Offset sketch geometry
  • Pattern and mirror sketch geometry
7. Work Features and Projections
  • Understand work features
  • Create offset workplanes
  • Create additional types of workplanes
  • Create a workpoint and work axis
  • Project geometry
8. Understand Part Modeling
  • Part feature introduction
  • Create a base extrusion
  • Create an extrusion to next face
  • Create revolves
  • Create a sweep
  • Complex shapes with the Loft tool
  • Controlling lofts with rails
  • Introduction to organic shapes with T-Splines
  • Create a base T-Splines form
  • Editing sculpted shapes using edit form
9. Build Parts with Placed Features
  • Add concentric holes
  • Add linear holes
  • Add threaded holes
  • Modify edges with fillets and chamfers
  • Hollow a part with the shell feature
10. Create Patterns of Features
  • Create rectangular feature patterns
  • Create circular patterns
  • Mirror part features
11. Add Parts to an Assembly File
  • Introduction to assemblies
  • Place components
  • Create and edit components in an assembly
12. Use Constraints to Position Parts
  • Mate and Flush constraint
  • Angle constraint
  • Insert constraint
  • Drive constraints
13. Create Drawing Views
  • Explore initial drawing creation
  • Place base and projected views
  • Create section views
  • Create detail views
14. Create Basic Annotations
  • Create general dimensions
  • Change dimension precision
  • Create baseline, ordinate, and chain dimensions
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

John Helfen

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