Book description
The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software
If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project.
Once you understand the interface and how to use Inventor conventions, you'll begin actually designing and modeling a project from start to finish. Along the way, you'll learn the ""why"" behind each step.
Learn to use the interface and Inventor conventions
Understand sketching commands and best practices, then move into both regular and sheet metal specific part modeling
Understand how to join parts into assemblies to create a single, digital prototype of a box fan
Create and distribute accruate part and assembly drawings, learn about functional design concepts, and use Inventor's Design Accelerator features
Discover how to work with Inventor weldments and create, render, and distribute compelling visualizations of the final design using Inventor Studio
The companion website provides ""before and after"" tutorial files, enabling you to jump in at any point and compare your work with the author's results
Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required gives you all the instruction you need to begin using this powerful 3D mechanical design tool.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
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1. Finding Your Way in the Inventor Interface
- 1.1. Inventor's User Interface
- 1.2. Learning the Basics of Tabs
- 1.3. Learning to Use the Dialog Boxes
- 1.4. The Open Dialog Box
- 1.5. The New File Dialog Box
- 1.6. More of the Inventor Interface
- 1.7. Working in the Design Window
- 1.8. Make Yourself at Home: Customizing Inventor
- 1.9. Project Files
- 1.10. Using the Help System and Infocenter
- 1.11. Are You Experienced?
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2. Building the Foundation of the Design
- 2.1. It's About the Design
- 2.2. Creating the Sheet Metal Housing
- 2.3. Inventor's Sheet Metal Tools
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2.4. Sheet Metal Defaults
- 2.4.1. The Sheet Metal Defaults Dialog Box
- 2.4.2. Creating a New Sheet Metal Rule
- 2.4.3. The Style and Standard Editor
- 2.4.4. The Contour Flange Tool
- 2.4.5. The Flange Tool
- 2.4.6. The Mirror Tool
- 2.5. The Hole Feature
- 2.6. Are You Experienced?
- 3. Moving into the Assembly World
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4. Working with Solid Models and Weldments
- 4.1. Keep It Simple, Make It Work
- 4.2. Work Features
- 4.3. Weldments
- 4.4. Drawing Views
- 4.5. Creating Base Views
- 4.6. Detail Views
- 4.7. Detailing Tools
- 4.8. Placing Dimensions in Inventor
- 4.9. Associativity
- 4.10. Are You Experienced?
- 5. Working with the Frame Generator
- 6. Working with Purchased and Multipurpose Parts
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7. Functional Design Using Design Accelerators
- 7.1. Design Accelerators
- 7.2. The Sweep Tool
- 7.3. The Rule Fillet
- 7.4. Parallel Key Connection Generator
- 7.5. The Copy Object Tool
- 7.6. The Thicken/Offset Tool
- 7.7. The Unfold and Refold Tools
- 7.8. Are You Experienced?
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8. Creating Contoured and Plastic Parts
- 8.1. Working with Plastic Parts
- 8.2. The Shell Tool
- 8.3. The Loft Tool
- 8.4. The Revolve Tool
- 8.5. The Rib and Web Tools
- 8.6. The Decal Tool
- 8.7. The Sculpt Tool
- 8.8. The Grill Tool
- 8.9. Are You Experienced?
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9. Communicating Your Design
- 9.1. 3D Is Just the Beginning
- 9.2. Advanced Drawing Views
- 9.3. Presentation Files
- 9.4. Assembly Annotations
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9.5. Inventor Studio Overview
- 9.5.1. Getting Started
- 9.5.2. The General Tab
- 9.5.3. The Output Tab
- 9.5.4. The Style Tab (Realistic Rendering)
- 9.5.5. The Style Tab (Illustration Rendering)
- 9.5.6. Creating a Quick Rendering
- 9.5.7. Creating an Illustration Rendering
- 9.5.8. Scene Styles
- 9.5.9. Surface Styles
- 9.5.10. Working with Animation
- 9.6. Are You Experienced?
- A. Keyboard Shortcut Guide
- B. Import and Export File Formats
Product information
- Title: Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2009
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9780470481691
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