Inventor 1 - Class Topics

Week 1
Inventor Fundamentals
Working with Sketches
Introduction to Part Modeling
Creating Simple Sketched Features

Week 2
Using Work Features
Adding Placed Features to Parts
Advanced Part Features
Creating Working Drawings
Assembly Modeling Fundamentals

Week 3
Adaptive Parts
Presentations
Creating Assembly Drawings



Detailed Course Outline

Week 1
Inventor Fundamentals
    Key terms
    Introduction to 3D parametric feature based modeling      theory
    Why parametric feature based solid modeling
    The User Interface
    Setting up Projects
    Menus
    Materials
    Viewing
    Options
    Design Support System
    Hardware Requirements
Working with Sketches
    Rules for sketching - Creating sketches
    The Basic Sketch
    Sketch Doctor
    Sketch Tools
    Sketch planes and definitions
    Constraining sketches
    Design Assistant
    Geometric constraints – Sketch dimensions
    Dimension types
    Dimension display
    Editing sketches
    Using the Browser
Introduction to Part Modeling
    Feature based Part modeling
    Parametric Modeling Process
    Analyzing parts for design
    Sketched features
    Placed features
    Work features
    Modifying Part features
Creating Simple Sketched Features
    Introduction to sketching
    The Sketch Doctor
    Sketch tools
    Sketch planes and definitions
    Constraining Sketches
    Precise input
    Reference geometry
    Construction geometry ? Coordinate systems
    Coordinate system alignment
    Part viewing
    Texture maps
    Extrude
    Revolve
    Intersect
    Join
    Cut


Week 2
Using Work Features
    Key terms
    Work planes
    Work axes
    Work points
Adding Placed Features to Parts
    Key terms
    Visibility
    Hole features
    Fillets
    Chamfers
    Shells
    Patterns or arrays
    Suppressing features
    Mirroring features
Creating Part Drawings
    Introduction to part drawings
    Setting standards
    Layouts
    Views
    Copy and Paste
    Sheets for Layout
    Drawing views
    Multi-views and sections
    Annotation of drawing
    Text styles
    Dimension styles
    Dimension annotations
    Title Block Information
    Printing drawings
Assembly Modeling Fundamentals
    Placing components
    Creating components
    3D constraints of components
    Assembly Browser tools
    Degrees of freedom
    Color
    Visibility
    iFeatures, iParts and iMate concepts
    Interference
    Movement of parts
    Assembly section views
    Organization of parts
    Finding components
    Skip Loading of components


Week 3
Adaptive Parts
    Introduction to Adaptively
    Defining Adaptive Parts
    Sketch references
    Adaptive assemblies
Presentations
    Introduction to the concepts of presentations
    Tweaks and trails
    Cameras
    Recording Presentation View
    Introduction to animation
Creating Assembly Drawings
    Introduction to assembly drawings
    Sectioned and Outline Assembly views
    Balloons
    Bill of materials

Grading: Class participants will receive a grade for their contributions to the class and timely progress on their 3D model. There may be short project quizzes and tests to ensure that class participants fully understand the topics being presented.

Open labs: Open labs are available for use in completing homework assignments and for additional "practice time" by the class participants. There is an additional cost for using open labs. Please contact us to receive that information.