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, autoproject origin, planes, new sketch

Inventor's 2D sketching tools

Inventor 2009 new sketching enhancements

Selecting and Deleting Objects

Measuring sketches and parts

Adding 2D sketch constraints

Display sketch Degrees of Freedom

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

Extrude to point

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

Place a fillet with a minimal setback

Create chamfer features

Create hole features

Create thread features

Create shell features

Create a face draft features

Create work axis and work planes features

Create work axis and work planes features

Create work points and grounded work points

Controlling the visibility of work features

Creating rectangular patterns

Creating circular

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 a broken views

Creating a break out views

Creating Cropped views

Creating and Editing Slice Views

Create draft views

Editing drawing views

Retrieving model dimensions and placing drawing dimensions

Create baseline dimensions

Create ordinate dimension

Working with Styles

Moving dimensions in a drawing view

Adding centerlines to drawings

Adding centerlines to multiple drawing views

Placing text and symbols in a drawing

Edit Text Fraction Stacking and Superscript and Subscript

Dimension to Center of Gravity 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

Use the Capacity Meter Options

Inserting Parts and create parts in place

How to change how the component’s orientation can be changed when placed.

Create a subassembly and work with grounded parts.

Apply basic assembly constraints

Use the new Explicit Reference Vector Angle Constraint

Apply motion constraints

Enable, disable and control the visibility of components.

Creating and Documenting Assemblies

Edit components in an assembly and isolate constraint errors.

Create adaptive parts

Pattern assembly components

Analysis tools in an assembly

Dimension to Center of Gravity

Grip Snap Move and Rotate Components

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

Use Parts List filters

Create a revision table

Advanced Sketching and Constraining Techniques

Create splines

Import points

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

Create Text Based on Geometry

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.

Use Derived Assembly Reduced Memory Mode Option

Create AutoLimits