Autodesk Inventor

The goal of this book is to create an open and freely editable manual and training guide for Autodesk Inventor.

Autodesk Inventor is a geometric modeling program that is used in Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and is commonly used to teach students engineering principals in the PLTW curriculum.

Basic Concepts

• Projects
• Sketching
• Part Creation
• Assembly Creation
• Drawing Creation
• Parameters

Basic Editing

Getting Started

• Creating parts and assemblies from scratch
• Editing parts and assemblies using the history tree

Part Editing

• Sketch
• Extrude
• Revolve
• Sweep
• Loft
• Features
• Patterns
• Holes
• Chamfers
• Fillets

Assembly Editing

• Placing Components
• Content Centre
• Constraints
• iMates
• Assembly-level features
• Weldments

Drawing Editing

• Placing Views
• Creating new view types based on sketches
• annotating, detailing, BOMs, revisions

Advanced Editing

Topics to be included:

• Derived parts and assemblies
• Presentation files
• 3D sketching
• Skeleton Modeling techniques