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Create Full-Featured Digital Prototypes the Inventor Way
Whether you're designing airplanes, appliances, or industrial machinery, this complete guide to Autodesk Inventor 2010 shows you how to produce and manage build-worthy 3D virtual prototypes from the ground up. Inventor experts Curtis Waguespack and Loren Jahraus not only pack this reference with veteran insights and valuable engineering principles, they also cover topics that are rarely documented elsewhere.
You'll receive a thorough grounding in basic concepts before moving on to a wealth of advanced topics for professional environments, including standard and sheet metal part design, the dos and don'ts of working with large assemblies, setting up professional workflows, effectively sharing data, and more. The book fully covers Inventor 2010 and Inventor Professional 2010, including newly enhanced simulation tools for motion and finite element analysis.
Coverage includes:
Understanding the "Inventor way" of 3D mechanical design
Using the new interface effectively and productively
Transitioning from AutoCAD or third-party 3D design packages
Learning all aspects of part and assembly design, including sketching and modeling
Mastering advanced sheet metal design techniques
Exploring little-known strategies for large assemblies
Leveraging cable and harness capabilities, tube and pipe design, and dynamic simulation and stress analysis features
Creating multibody parts and plastic part features
Featured on the Dvd
Enhance your learning with the innovative video tutorials for each chapter that highlight advanced techniques and best practices. You'll also find before-and-after tutorial files, interesting and useful Inventor utilities, and a fully searchable PDF of the book.
Master the Powerful New Inventor 2010 Interface
Discover Techniques and Tricks Not Widely Documented Elsewhere
Learn in the Context of Real-World Workflows and Work Environments
Delve into Advanced Design for Parts, Assemblies, Weldments, and Plastics
Use Inventor Studio to Create High-Impact Presentations
Enhance Data Exchange and Design Effectively Across Different Industries
Synopsis
Expert author Curtis Waguespack developed this detailed reference and tutorial with straightforward explanations, real-world examples, and practical tutorials that focus squarely on teaching Inventor tips, tricks, and techniques. The author’s extensive experience across industries and his Inventor expertise allows him to teach the software in the context of real-world workflows and work environments. Curtis presents topics that are poorly documented elsewhere, such as design tactics for large assemblies, effective model design for different industries, strategies for effective data and asset sharing across teams, using 2D and 3D data from other CAD systems, and improving designs by incorporating engineering principles.
The book begins with an overview of Inventor design concepts and application before exploring all aspects of part design, including sketching, basic and advanced modeling techniques, working with sheet metal, and part editing. The book then looks at assemblies and subassemblies, explaining real-world workflows and offering extensive detail on working with large assemblies.
Weldment design is detailed next before the reader is introduced to the functional design using Design Accelerators and Design Calculators. The detailed documentation chapter then covers everything from presentation files to simple animations to documentation for exploded views, sheet metal flat patterns, and more. The following chapters explore crucial productivity-boosting tools, data exchange, the Frame Generator, and the Inventor Studio visualization tools. Finally, the book explores Inventor Professional’s dynamic simulation and stress analysis features as well as the routed systems features (piping, tubing, cabling, and harnesses).
Mastering Inventor’s detailed discussions are reinforced with step-by-step tutorials, and readers can compare their work to the before-and-after tutorial files on the book’s DVD, which also includes a trial version of the software, searchable PDF of the whole book, and innovative video tutorials for each chapter. Mastering Inventoris the ultimate resource for those who want to quickly become proficient with Autodesk’s 3D manufacturing software.
Synopsis
A complete tutorial for the real-world application of Autodesk Inventor, plus video instruction on DVDUsed to design everything from airplanes to appliances, Autodesk Inventor is the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software. This detailed tutorial and reference covers practical applications to help you solve design problems in your own work environment, allowing you to do more with less.
It also addresses topics that are often omitted from other guides, such as Inventor Professional modules, design tactics for large assemblies, using 2D and 3D data from other CAD systems, and a detailed overview of the Inventor utility tools such as Design Assistant and Task Scheduler that you didn't even know you had.
- Teaches the most popular 3D mechanical design software in the context of real-world workflows and work environments
- Provides an overview of the Inventor 2010 ribbon Interface, Inventor design concepts, and advanced information on productivity-boosting and visualization tools
- Offers crucial information on data exchange, including SolidWorks, Catia, Pro-E, and others.
- Shares details on documentation, including exploded presentation files, simple animations, rendered animations and stills with Inventor Studio, and sheet metal flat patterns
- Covers Inventor, Inventor Professional, and Inventor LT
- Includes a DVD with before-and-after tutorial files, a searchable PDF of the book, innovative video tutorials for each chapter, and more
Mastering Autodesk Inventor teaches you to get the most from the software and provides a reference to help you on the job, allowing you to utilize the tools you didn't even know you had to quickly achieve professional results.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Synopsis
The expert content in Mastering Autodesk® Inventor 2009 and Autodesk InventorLT 2009 will help you learn advanced related to the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software. Coverage of subjects like design tactics for large assemblies, effective model design for different industries, strategies for effective data and asset sharing across teams, using 2D and 3D data from other CAD systems, and improving designs is through and comprehensive. With straightforward explanations, real-world examples, practical tutorials, tips, tricks, and techniques, this book will be your go-to guide to Autodesk Inventor.
About the Author
Curtis Waguespack is an Inventor Certified Expert and an Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified Expert who has provided training, consulting, and support for manufacturing and design firms in industries ranging from aerospace to consumer products to industrial machinery. Loren Jahraus, P.E., is an Inventor founder. As an engineer, he has designed machinery for the food processing, material handling, and semiconductor industries.
Table of Contents
1. Inventor Design Philosophy.
2. Data and Projects.
3. Sketch Techniques.
4. Basic Modeling Techniques.
5. Advanced Modeling Techniques.
6. Sheet Metal.
7. Part and Feature Reuse.
8. Assembly Design Workflows.
9. Large Assembly Strategies.
10. Weldment Design.
11. Functional Design.
12. Documentation.
13. Inventor Tools Overview.
14. Exchanging Data with Other Systems.
15. Frame Generator.
16. Inventor Studio.
17. Dynamic Simulation and Stress Analysis.
18. Routed Systems.
19. Plastics Design.