Inventor Essentials
Online Training

Are you ready to take your Inventor skills to the next level?

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Inventor Essentials Online Training concept-based course provides you with a complete library of essentials skills used by professional designers to create Parts and Assemblies. Our teaching methodology lets you learn the underlying principles behind a tool, as opposed to simply being shown how to use them in one particular situation. This course covers topics such as Sketching, Sketched Features, Placed Features, Work Features, Reference Geometry, Patterned Geometry, Design Strategies, i-Parts, Assemblies, and includes Hands-on Exercises that reinforce what you learn. This course is great even if you’ve never used Inventor, and is even better if you’ve gone through our Inventor for Beginners course. No experience is required.

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Duration: 253 minutes

Introduction

• Course Introduction
• Inventor Overview
• Interface
• View Manipulation
• Navigation Bar

Sketching

• The Sketch Environment
• Lines
• Rectangles
• Circles
• Arcs
• Dimensions
• Automatic Constraints
• Geometric Constraints
• Fully Constrained Sketches
• Sketch Fillets
• Sketch Mirroring
• Offset Entities
• Trim/Extend
• Projected Geometry
• Ellipse
• Polygon

Sketched Features

• Sketched Features Introduction
• Extrude
• Extrude Profiles and Extents
• Extrude with Cut Option
• Revolve
• Revolve with Cut Option
• Holes
• Sweep
• Loft
• Ribs

Placed Features

• Placed Features Introduction
• Fillets
• Chamfers
• Shell
• Draft

Work Features

• Work Features Introduction
• Planes I
• Planes II
• Work Axes
• Work Points
• Grounded Work Points
• User Coordinate Systems

Patterned Geometry

• Patterned Geometry Introduction
• 3D Mirroring
• Mirroring Bodies
• Rectangular Patterns
• Circular Patterns
• Curve Driven Pattern

Design Strategies

• Introducing Parts
• Starting a Part
• Picking a Plane
• Design Intent
• Symmetry
• Appearances
• Editing Parts
• Feature Suppression
• Parent Child Relations

iParts

• iParts Introduction
• Dimension Changes
• Feature Suppression
• Exercise

Assemblies

• Introducing Assemblies
• Placing Components
• Positioning Parts
• Introducing Constraints
• Degrees of Freedom
• Mate Constraint
• Insert Constraint
• Offset Constraint
• Angle Constraint
• Tangent Constraint
• Constraint Alignment
• Assemble
• Alt + Drag Constraints
• Analyze Interference
• Collision Detection
• Contact Sets
• Bill of Materials
• Assembly Appearances
• Find in Window
• Exploding Assemblies
• Top Down Assembly Design A
• Top Down Assembly Design B

Exercises

• Exercise Introduction
• Part Exercise I A
• Part Exercise I B
• Part Exercise I C
• Part Exercise II A
• Part Exercise II B
• Part Exercise II C
• Part Exercise III A
• Part Exercise III B
• Part Exercise III C
• Part Exercise III D
• Assembly Exercise I
• Assembly Exercise I B