Building Information Modelling

Understand the features needed to create parts and assemblies in Inventor such as sketching, sketched features, placed features, work features, reference geometry, patterned geometry, design strategies, iParts, assemblies, and more.

• Mechanical Product Design application creating parts, assemblies and drawings
• Bring Ideas from Concept to Production with a coordinated and a consistent model-based approach
• More easily model, edit and document designs of products.

Course Outline:

Inventor Overview

• Interface
• View Manipulation
• Navigation Bar
• Application Options and Environment
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Solid/Part/Component Modeling

• Extrude
• Revolve
• Holes
• Sweep
• Loft
• Ribs
• Practice Exercises

Placed Features

• Draft
• Practice Exercises
• Work Features
• Planes and Specialized Planes
• Work Axes
• Work Points
• Grounded Work Points
• User Coordinate Systems

Creating Patterned Geometry

• Mirroring (Features & Bodies)
• Rectangular Patterns
• Circular Patterns
• Curve Driven Pattern
• Sketch Driven Pattern
• practice Exercise

Design Strategies

• Picking a Plane
• Design Intent
• Feature Order and Rollback Bar
• Feature Suppression
• Parent Child Relations

iParts

• Dimension Changes in iParts
• Suppressing Features in iParts
• Creating an iPart
• Practice Exercises

Assemblies

• Introducing Assemblies
• Placing Components
• Positioning Parts
• Introducing Constraints
• Degrees of Freedom