Autodesk Inventor

The goal of this book is to create an open and freely editable manual and training guide for Autodesk Inventor.

Autodesk Inventor is a geometric modeling program that is used in Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and is commonly used to teach students engineering principals in the PLTW curriculum.

/Basic Concepts/

 * /Projects/
 * /Sketching/
 * /Part Creation/
 * /Assembly Creation/
 * /Drawing Creation/
 * /Parameters/

Getting Started

 * /Creating parts and assemblies from scratch/
 * /Editing parts and assemblies using the history tree/

Part Editing

 * /Sketch/
 * /Extrude/
 * /Revolve/
 * /Sweep/
 * /Loft/
 * /Features/
 * /Patterns/
 * /Holes/
 * /Chamfers/
 * /Fillets/

Assembly Editing

 * /Placing Components/
 * /Content Centre/
 * /Constraints/
 * /iMates/
 * /Assembly-level features/
 * /Weldments/

Drawing Editing

 * /Placing Views/
 * /Creating new view types based on sketches/
 * /annotating, detailing, BOMs, revisions/

Advanced Editing
Topics to be included:
 * /Derived parts and assemblies/
 * /Presentation files/
 * /3D sketching/
 * /Skeleton Modeling techniques/