Autodesk Inventor 2011 Intermediate
Comprised of 2 sub-courses:
Inventor 2011: Advanced Assembly Modeling
Overview:
Inventor 2011 Advanced Assembly Modeling builds on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling and Advanced Part Modeling courses to take students to a higher level of productivity creating and working with assemblies in Inventor.
In this course, we begin by discussing the concept of Top-Down Design for assembly creation. Planning the assembly using the top-down design approach helps create clean, reusable geometry that interacts as expected with the rest of the assembly. Throughout the course you will be taught how various Inventor tools can be used to achieve Top-Down Design practices in your assemblies using Derive, Multi-Body Design, and Layouts. Other advanced assembly topics include Positional and Level of Detail Representations (including substitute), iMates and iAssemblies, iLogic, Frame Generator, Design Accelerator, and file management and duplication techniques that aim to help you become more efficient when working with assemblies.
Accurately communicating a design to all levels of a design team is important. A chapter has been included on Inventor Studio to teach you how to render, produce, and animate realistic images.
Duration: 24 hours
Prerequisites:
The class assumes a mastery of Inventor basics as taught in Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling. Inventor Advanced Part Modeling is recommended.
Fundamental Topics:
- Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using either Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints
- Introduction of the Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies and its components
- Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including associative links, adaptive parts, multi-body design, layout design, derived components, and skeleton models
- Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or document an assembly in a drawing
- Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies, as well as reduce your time spent waiting for your system to retrieve a large number of components in an assembly. You will also learn about Substitute Level of Detail Representations
- Using the Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components and features into your model
- Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio and the Video Producer
- Using iMates, iAssemblies, and iLogic to work efficiently with assemblies
- Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work
- Using pattern, mirror, and copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly
- Working with weldments
- Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file and use it to drive parameters in the model. You will also learn about custom formatting and creating expression within a parameter
Inventor 2011: Advanced Part Modeling
Overview:
Inventor 2011 Advanced Part Modeling is the second in a series of courses on Inventor from ASCENT. The goal of this class is to build on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling course to take students to a higher level of productivity designing part models in Inventor. In this course we consider various approaches to part design and emphasize useful strategies. Specific advanced part modeling techniques covered here include multi-body design, advanced lofts, advanced sweeps, coils, and surface modeling. Additional material aimed at increasing efficiency is also included: iFeatures for frequently needed design elements, iParts for similar designs, iLogic for automating designs, translation options for importing data, and engineering notebook for communication. The course also covers some miscellaneous drawing tools such as custom sketch symbols, working with title blocks and borders, and documenting iParts. With an understanding of these tools, students can begin to streamline the design and documentation process.
Duration: 16 hours
Prerequisites:
- The class assumes a mastery of Inventor basics as taught in Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling
- Students should know how to create and edit parts, use work features, and create and annotate drawing views, etc.
Fundamental Topics:
- Advanced model appearance options
- Multi-body part modeling
- 2D and 3D sketching techniques
- Advanced geometry creation tools (work features, area lofts, sweeps and coils)
- Part creation using iLogic
- Analysis tools
- Creating and editing basic surfaces
- Importing surfaces and surface repair tools
- Using iFeatures and iParts to work efficiently with part models
- Advanced Drawing tools (tables for iParts, surfaces in drawing views and custom sketched symbols)
- Importing and exporting data
- Adding notes with the Engineer's Notebook