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AUTODESK INVENTOR 2015 BASIC COURSE:

Prepared by erer N. Mechanical Design Engineer & Autodesk Inventor Certified Instructor
Course summary:
This training course is designed to teach the essentials of using Autodesk Inventor 2015. Each unit topic will provide you
with comprehensive lessons, detailed procedures and lots of project samples to apply your knowledge. Some of the
topics covered in this course are: navigating the user interface; using basic sketching techniques; using basic and
detailed shape design techniques; an assembly design overview; place, create and constrain components; interact with
an assembly; basics of view creation; dimensions, annotations and tables; annotating assembly drawings and drawing
standards and resources.
Course duration:
40h (?)
Courses Prerequisites:
It is recommended that participants in this course have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 8,
Microsoft MS Office (Word, Excel) and working knowledge of mechanical design principles.
Who should attend?
This training program is designed for:
Professionals working in the field and looking to improve their skills with the latest version of the software,
Beginners looking to explore new career options in the mechanical design and manufacturing industry,
Those who are looking to prepare for Autodesk Inventor Professional Certification.
Note:
Skill exercises for each chapter are provided to students in pdf file format.

TOPIC/CHAPTER

Chapter 1:
Getting Started

Chapter 2:
Sketching,
constraining and
dimensioning

CONTENT

Introduction
Objectives
Getting Started with Autodesk Inventor
File Information
User Interface
Inventor Application Button
Ribbon
Quick Access Toolbar
Application Options
Repeat Last Command
Help System
Projects in Autodesk Inventor
Viewpoint Options
Autodesk Vault

Change the sketch and part options as needed

Sketch an outline of a part
Create geometric constraints
Use construction geometry to help constrain sketches
Dimension a sketch
Create dimensions using the automatic dimensioning
command
Change a dimension s value in a sketch
Open and insert AutoCAD DWG data

WORKING EXERCISE FILES

Class Exercises:
Exercise 1: User Interface
Exercise 2: Creating Project files
Exercise 3: Viewing a model

Class Exercises:
Creating a sketch with lines
Creating a sketch with tangencies
Adding and displaying constraints
Dimensioning a Sketch
Inserting a AutoCAD file
Skill exercise 2-1.pdf
Skill exercise 2-2.pdf
Home Exercises:
Skill Exercise 2-3.pdf
Skill Exercise 2-4.pdf

Chapter 3:
Creating and
Editing Sketched
Features

Chapter 4:
Creating placed
features

Create fillets
Create chamfers
Create holes
Shell a part
Add face draft to a part
Create work axes
Create work points
Create work planes
Create a UCS
Pattern features

Create base and projected drawing views from a part

Create auxiliary, section, detail, broken, breakout,
cropped, and perspective views
Edit the properties and location of drawing views
Retrieve and arrange model dimensions for use in
drawing views
Edit, move and hide dimensions
Add automated centerlines
Add general dimensions
Add annotations such as Text, Leaders, Geometric
Dimensioning & Tolerance, Surface finish symbols,
Weld symbols, and Datum identifiers
Create hole and chamfer notes,
Open a model from a drawing,
Open a drawing from a model
Making changes under the Drawing tab of the
Application Options dialog box
Create baseline and ordinate dimensions
Create hole, general and revision tables

Chapter 5:
Creating and
editing drawing
views

Understand what a feature is

Use the Autodesk Inventor browser to edit parts
Extrude a sketch
Revolve a sketch
Edit features of a part
Edit the sketch of a feature
Make an active sketch on a plane
Create sketched features using one of three
operations: cut, join, or intersect
Project edges of a part

Class Exercises:
Exercise 3-1: Extruding a sketch
Exercise 3-2: Revolving a sketch
Exercise 3-3: Editing Features and
Sketches
Exercise 3-4: Sketch Planes
Skill Exercise 3-1.pdf
Skill Exercise 3-2.pdf
Home Exercises:
Skill Exercise 3-3.pdf
Skill Exercise 3-4.pdf
Class exercises:
Exercise 4-1: Fillets and chamfers
Exercise 4-2: Creating holes
Exercise 4-3: Shelling a part
Exercise 4-4: Creating Face Draft
Exercise 4-5: Creating Work Axes
Exercise 4-6: Work Planes and UCS
Exercise 4-6a: Work Planes and UCS
Exercise 4-7: Rectangular Pattern
Exercise 4-8: Circular Pattern
Exercise 4-9: Creating Pattern Along a
Nonlinear Path
Skill Exercises 4-1
Skill Exercise 4-2
Home exercises:
Skill Exercise 4-3
Skill Exercise 4-4
Class exercises:
Exercise 5-1: Creating multiview
drawing
Exercise 5-2: Creating break, section,
auxiliary, and detail views
Exercise 5-3: Editing drawing views
Exercise 5-4: Adding dimension and
annotations
Exercise 5-5: Creating Baseline
dimensions
Exercise 5-6: Creating Hole Tables
Skill Exercises 5-1
Skill Exercise 5-2
Home exercises (skill exercises from
ch.4 create drawings):
Skill Exercise 5-3
Skill Exercise 5-4
Skill exercise 5-5
Skill exercise 5-6

Chapter 6:
Creating and
documenting
assemblies

Understand the assembly options

Create bottom-up assemblies
Create top-down assemblies
Create subassemblies
Constrain components together using assembly
constraints
Edit assembly constraints
Create adaptive parts
Pattern components in an assembly
Check parts in an assembly for interference
Drive constraints
Create a presentation file
Manipulate and edit the Bill of Materials (BOM)
Create individual and automatic balloons
Create and perform edits on a Parts List of an
assembly

Class exercises:
Exercise 6-1: Assembling parts
Exercise 6-2: Designing parts in the
assembly context
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Exercise 6-2a: Assembly joints
2
Exercise 6-3: Creating adaptive parts
Exercise 6-4: Patterning components
Exercise 6-5: Analyzing an assembly
Exercise 6-6: Driving constraints
Exercise 6-7: Creating presentation
views
Exercise 6-8: Editing the BOM
Exercise 6-9: Creating assembly
drawings
Skill exercise 6-1
Skill exercise 6-2
Home exercise:
Skill exercise 6-3 (Assembly1.pdf)
Skill exercise 6-4 (Assembly2.pdf)

Reference literature used:

Inenjerska grafika za AutoCAD 2004/2005 Dr.Leti Duko
CAD Mainskih elemenata i konstrukcija - Dr.Leti Duko (2004)
Adaptive Modeling in Industry - Fort, Kletecka (2006)
Autodesk Inventor from the Top - Banach, Jones (2002)
"Autodesk Inventor 2010 Essentials Plus"- Banach, Jones, Kalameja (2009)
"Autodesk Inventor 2015 Essentials Plus" Banach, Jones (2014)

From "Autodesk Inventor 2015 Essentials Plus" Banach, Jones

Add samples from: Adaptive Modeling in Industry (Fort, Kletecka), Autodesk Inventor from the Top (Banach, Jones)