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, auto project origin, planes, new sketch
Inventor's 2D sketching tools
Selecting and Deleting Objects
Measuring sketches and parts
Adding 2D sketch constraints
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
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
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 Editing Drawing Views

Starting and preparing a drawing
Creating base and projected 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 Documenting Assemblies

Creating an assembly file and the assembly browser
Inserting Parts and creating parts in place
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

Advanced Sketching and Constraining Techniques

Import points and create splines
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
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 Automation Techniques

Create iMates
Create, use and document iParts
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

Sheet Metal Design

Using sheet metal styles
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