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Autodesk Inventor 11 Essentials: Getting Started & Project Setup

Learn to create & manage projects in Autodesk Inventor 11, explore project file types, utilize Vault, and customize your workspace. Understand project setup, searching options, and file resolutions for efficient design workflows.

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Autodesk Inventor 11 Essentials: Getting Started & Project Setup

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  1. Autodesk Inventor 11 Essentials Plus Instructor’s Name

  2. Course Objectives • Create, Constrain, Dimension and Modify Sketches • Create and Edit Part Features • Create, Constrain and Analyze Assemblies • Create and Edit Drawing Views of Parts and Assemblies • Utilize Design Automation Techniques • Create Sheet Metal Parts

  3. Chapter 1 Getting Started

  4. Chapter 1 - Objectives • In this chapter, you will gain an understanding of • The Getting Started screen • Reasons for which a project file is used • How to create a project file for a single user • Autodesk Vault • Different file types used in Autodesk Inventor • Application options • The Help system • The user interface • How to issue commands • Different viewing tools

  5. Getting Started Screen • Welcome • What is new in the current release • Learning options • Expand Your Knowledge • Information about advanced functionality in Autodesk Inventor

  6. How to Create and Open Files • New • Template for a new part, assembly, presentation file, sheet metal part, or drawing • Open • Open an existing Autodesk Inventor file • Projects • Create a new project • Make an existing project current

  7. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • Projects Overview • Most designs involve more than a single file: parts, subassembly, top level assembly, presentation, and drawings • Projects are files that contain search paths to find files that are required for a project • Autodesk Inventor always has a project named Default. The default projects’s path is located relative to the folder that the referencing file is in

  8. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • Project Setup • Plan your project folder structure • Project File Search Options • Inventor stores cross-file reference information • Resolves information to find referenced file

  9. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • Project File Search Options • Included File, Workspace & Local Search Paths • Workgroup Search Paths • More file management sophistication • Library Search Paths • Store standard company and third-party models • Project File Search Order • Library Paths • Workspace • Local Search Paths in the order listed in the project file • Workgroup Search Paths in the order listed in the project file • Folder containing the parent document

  10. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • File Resolution • Resolve Link

  11. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • Creating Projects • .ipj file extension • Types of project • Single User • Vault Project • Available only if Vault is installed

  12. Projects in Autodesk Inventor • Project wizard • Project Name • Location • Libraries • Editing Projects

  13. Autodesk Vault • Available on the Autodesk Inventor CD • Autodesk Vault enhances the data-management process by • File check in / out • Manage any electronic file • Track file versions • Track team member access • Copy designs • Enhanced search capabilities

  14. Exercise 1-1 • Projects

  15. File Information • File Types • Part .ipt • 2D or 3D • Assembly .iam • Consist of single part, multiple parts, or subassemblies • Presentation .ipn • Shows parts of an assembly, exploded in different states • Sheet Metal .ipt • Part files that have sheet metal environment loaded

  16. File Information • File Types • Drawing .idw • Contain 2D projected drawing views of parts, assemblies and/or presentation files • Project .ipj • ASCII-based text files, contain search paths to locations of all files in project • iFeature .ide • Contains complete parts, 3D features, or 2D sketches, that inserted into a part file • Design Views (.idv) • Private Design Views are configuration files in which saves component visibility, component selection status, color settings, zoom magnification, and viewing angle of an assembly.

  17. Application Options • Customized to your preferences

  18. Design Support System • Help system in Autodesk Inventor • Help Topics • Visual Syllabus • What's New • Tutorials • Design Doctor • Sketch Doctor

  19. User Interface

  20. User Interface • Toolbars and Panel Bar Tools • Command Entry • Toolbars and Panel Bar • Shortcut Menus • Windows Shortcuts • Hot Keys • Rollup CommandDialogs • Undo & Redo

  21. Hot Keys • Hot Keys

  22. Customizing Hotkeys • Customize command shortcuts by clicking Customize on the Tools menu.

  23. Viewing Tools • Viewing Models From Different Viewpoints • Isometric View • Camera Views • Shadow • View Tools

  24. Exercise 1-2 • Viewing a model

  25. Summary

  26. Summary

  27. Project Exercise Overview

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