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Goals


- Learn the logic of Design in Inventor: parametric modeling

Program

From AutoCAD to Inventor
Presentation of the main formats: The native file formats Inventor, the ..IPT, .IAM, .IPN and the .DWG
Presentation of Inventor
Common points of the AutoDesk software interfaces
The menu bar
The ribbon
The graphics area
The properties panel
The project tree panel
Handling the interface
Principle of the Stereolithographic.STL files

Additive 3d printing
systems Systems using molten filaments
Systems using photopolymers
Systems using powders
Other systems
Subtractive 3d printing systems

Implementation of a 3D printing.
Creation, analysis, scale of a 3D object
Why analyze an object for a 3D printing?
The various tools for analyzing a 3D object with a view to its Printing
Print an object at precise dimensions.
Tolerances for the different types of links between two objects.
Support creation
Print orientations
Optimization of your 3D prints
Clean a 3D object before printing it.

The workspace
Configuration of snaps and increments
Navigation in the named views
Navigation in the graphic space:
– Zoom
– Panoramic
– Orbit, free and continuous orbit
– 3D compass
– Navigation disc
Visual styles

Workshop: Navigation in an Inventor project

What is the difference between the different templates?
The Part
template
The Ensemble template Presentation templates
The
Show / Hide Objects template panel

View Artboards
Match Artboards with the View Cube
Define the Artboard to Start a
Sketch 2D Sketching and Working with Dimensions
Why Use Sketches?
Difference between sketch and construction
Define a work plane
Selection tool Selections
mode

The drawing tools, contextual options bar and status bar
– Line
– Rectangle
– Inscribed and circumscribed polygons –
Arcs
– Spline
– Ellipse
Why dimension sketches?
Dimension sketch objects:
– Distance
– Radius
– Angle
Associative modifications
Readjust the position of dimensions

Move
Copy
Orient
Scale
Mirror
Adjust / Extend
Fills and chamfers
Split an element
Symmetry
network Linear
network Polar network
Associativity
Modification of the network
Ungroup an associative network
Lock / unlock an object
Copy and apply the properties of an object to other objects
Boolean operations

Workshop: 
Making sketches of mechanical parts

Visibility of constraints
Coincidences
Collinearity
Concentricity
Parallelism
Perpendicularity
Horizontality
Verticularity
Tangency
Symmetry
Equality
Lock constraints
Release constraints

Workshop: making sketches of several mechanical parts

Extrusion
Extrusion in solid / surface
Definition of the depth of extrusion
Choice of the axis of extrusion
Modify the depth of extrusion
Extrusion through everything
Modify the sketch
Create a new sketch
Boolean operations on modified sketches

Workshop: 
Modeling d ‘a reduction sleeve

Revolution
Revolution in solid / surface
Definition of the angle to describe
Choice of the axis of revolution
Modify the sketch
Create a new sketch
Boolean operations on modified sketches

Workshop: 
model a lathe chuck

Chamfers and fillets
Choice of chamfer edges
Definition of the type of chamfer:
– Distance
– Distance 1 / distance 2
– Distance 1 and angle
– Distance 2 and angle
Modification of chamfers
Choice of
fillet edges Fillet of edges, face, complete
Type of fillets:
– Tangent fillet
– Smoothing fillet
Definition of radius
Modification of fillets

Workshop: 
model a pipe bend

Scanning
scanning trajectory
Creating the path sketch in the appropriate worktop
Creation of scanning the contour in the appropriate plane
scanning in a contour along a path and a guide rail
Creation of the sketch of the path in the appropriate plane
Creation of the rail sketch in the appropriate plane
Creation of the outline sketch in the appropriate plane
Solid or surface output
Boolean operations if applicable

Workshop: 
model a design door handle

Smoothing
Modeling of end and intermediate solids
Choice of sections according to work planes
Output in solid or surface Section
geometries:
– Free
– Tangent
– G2
Boolean operations if applicable

Workshop: 
model a design door handle

The assembly files
The tree structure of an assembled project
Importing elements
Single instance / multiple instance
Working with links
The different types of links:
– Automatic
– Rigid
– Rotation
– Drawer
– Cylindrical
– Plane
– Ball
Connect the source part to the target part
Choice of the alignment plane
Define a connection set
Define the angular and linear limits
Work with the assembly constraints
The different types of constraints:
– Plating
– Angle
– Tangent
– Insertion
– Symmetry
Connect the source part to the target part
Offset
Rotational
movement Rotational and translational movement

Workshop: 
assemble small mechanical system

Mesh preparation
Number of triangles Mesh enhancement
Enhancement
options
Export to 3D printing service via .STL file
or
Export to Print Studio

Workshop: preparation of the model to be printed

Import
Layout
Repair
Support
Preview
Export!

Workshop: Performing 3D outings

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2560

Audience

Draftsman – designer / Engineer

Prerequisites

Knowledge of CAD-CAD software (Autocad 3D)

Reference

CAO100101-F

Sessions

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