AutoCAD Training Overview
Inventor 2008 Advanced Assembly Modeling builds on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling and Advanced Part Modeling courses to take students to a higher level of productivity creating and working with assemblies in Inventor.
In this course, we begin by discussing the concept of Top-Down Design for assembly creation. Planning the assembly using the top-down design approach helps create clean, reusable geometry that interacts as expected with the rest of the assembly. Throughout the course you will be taught how various Inventor tools can be used to achieve Top-Down Design practices in your assemblies. Other advanced assembly topics include Positional and Level of Detail Representations, iMates and iAssemblies, Frame Generator, Design Accelerator and file management techniques that aim to help you become more efficient when working with assemblies.
Accurately communicating a design to all levels of a design team is important. A chapter has been included on Inventor Studio to teach you how to render and animate realistic images. In addition you will learn about how to accurately use the assembly bill of material functionality.
AutoCAD Training Topics
- Introduction of the Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies and its components
- Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including creating parts and features in the context of the assembly, associative links, adaptive parts, skeleton models, and derived components
- Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using either Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints
- Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or document an assembly in a drawing
- Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies, as well as reduce your time spent waiting for your system to retrieve a large number of components in an assembly.
- Using the Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components and features into your model
- Using iMates and iAssemblies to work efficiently with assemblies
- Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio
- Using pattern, mirror, and copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly
- Working with assemblies to create accurate Bill of Materials
- Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work
- Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file and use it to drive parameters in the model.
Prerequisites
The class assumes a mastery of Inventor basics as taught in Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling. Inventor Advanced Part Modeling is recommended.
AutoCAD Training Course Duration
24 hours
AutoCAD Training Course outline
Chapter 1 Introduction to Top-Down Design
- 1.1 Top-Down Design
- 1.2 Top-Down Design Technique
- 1.3 Additional Top-Down Design Tools
Chapter 2 Assembly Parts and Features
- 2.1 Assembly Parts
- 2.2 Assembly Features
Chapter 3 Associative Links and Adaptive Parts
- 3.1 Associative Links
- 3.2 Adaptive Assembly Parts
Chapter 4 Skeleton Models & Derived Components
- 4.1 Skeleton Models
- 4.2 Working with Skeletons
- 4.3 Derived Components
- 4.4 Modify Derived Components
Chapter 5 Applying Motion with Constraints
- 5.1 Driving Constraints
- 5.2 Motion Constraints
- 5.3 Transitional Constraints
Chapter 6 iMates
Chapter 7 Positional Representations
- 7.1 Introduction to Positional Representations
- 7.2 Create and Edit Positional Representations
- 7.3 Using a Positional Representation
Chapter 8 Level of Detail Representations
- 8.1 Level of Detail Representations
- 8.2 System-Defined Level of Detail Representations
- 8.3 User-Defined Level of Detail Representations
- 8.4 Using Level of Detail Representations
Chapter 9 Design Accelerator
- 9.1 Design Accelerator
- 9.2 Generators
- 9.3 Calculators
- 9.4 Engineer’s Handbook
Chapter 10 Advanced File Management
- 10.1 Design Assistant
- 10.2 Design Assistant Options
- 10.3 Pack and Go
- 10.4 Purging Old Files
- 10.5 Copy Design using Autodesk Vault
Chapter 11 Inventor Studio
- 11.1 Introduction to Inventor Studio
- 11.2 Rendering
- 11.3 Animation
- 11.4 Creating a Standard Room
Chapter 12 iAssemblies
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Create Basic iAssemblies
- 12.3 Create Multi-Level iAssemblies
- 12.4 Create iAssemblies Using Existing Assemblies
- 12.5 Place iAssemblies
- 12.6 Edit iAssemblies
Chapter 13 Assembly Duplication Options
- 13.1 Pattern Components
- 13.2 Mirror Components
- 13.3 Copy Components
Chapter 14 Assembly Bill of Materials
- 14.1 Create Virtual Components
- 14.2 Create Bill of Materials
Chapter 15 Frame Generator
Appendix A Working with Spreadsheets and Parameters
- A.1 Spreadsheet-Driven Parameters
- A.2 Custom Parameters
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