Autodesk Inventor 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users - Paperback

by Cadartifex (Author), Sandeep Dogra (Author), John Willis (Author)

Autodesk Inventor 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook has been designed for instructor-led courses as well as self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers, interested in learning Autodesk Inventor, to create 3D mechanical designs. This textbook is an excellent guide for new Inventor users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. It consists of 14 chapters and a total of 790 pages covering major environments of Autodesk Inventor such as Sketching environment, Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, Presentation environment, and Drawing environment. The textbook teaches you to use Autodesk Inventor mechanical design software for building parametric 3D solid components and assemblies as well as creating animations and 2D drawings.

This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of Autodesk Inventor but also on the concept of design. Every chapter in this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives that allow users to experience the user-friendly and powerful technical capabilities of Autodesk Inventor.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Autodesk Inventor

Chapter 2. Drawing Sketches with Autodesk Inventor

Chapter 3. Editing and Modifying Sketches

Chapter 4. Applying Constraints and Dimensions

Chapter 5. Creating Base Features of Solid Models

Chapter 6. Creating Work Features

Chapter 7. Advanced Modeling - I

Chapter 8. Advanced Modeling - II

Chapter 9. Patterning and Mirroring

Chapter 10. Advanced Modeling - III

Chapter 11. Working with Assemblies - I

Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies - II

Chapter 13. Creating Animation and Exploded Views

Chapter 14. Working with Drawings