Chapter 7

Advanced Part Modeling

Now that you’ve developed the basic skills for part modeling and explored some additional foundational knowledge, it is a good time to let you know that you’ve already learned some of the most challenging concepts in Autodesk® Inventor® 2014. Advanced features are as easy to define and often easier to construct than the basic features.

In this chapter, you will create or complete a handful of parts that include complex contours or large numbers of features. As you move beyond basic, prismatic parts, you need to work with more developed sketched and placed features. You will find that the basics learned with primitives, extrusions, and revolved features will apply directly to the dialog boxes and workflows of these ...

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