Good morning all.
I am an experienced SolidWorks modeler and drafter and recently just left an old job of 10 years and started with a new company that uses Inventor. So far I have been doing well in the modeling and drawing department in the way its done in Inventor vs SW, but I would like to be a better Inventor drafter for this company. I have been kind of limping along with using the on line help, forums, and youtube videos for my training. This company will not spend any extra money on training, so I would like to find a more organized and informative tutorials or virtual classroom in order to train myself on the more advanced features. Not just for this company but for own hunger for knowledge. At this new company we do a lot of sheet metal, and structural frame assemblies. It is a fabrication company so we get most of our drawings from a customer and have to redraw the customers .PDF or autoCAD drawings to meet our shop requirements. I have purchased a few SW books to increase my knowledge but do not know what the best ones for Inventor would be. Could anyone help me with this? Thank you in advance for any reply.
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Hi georgetrott,
You can find some links to free tutorials as this link:
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
And of course Curtis has some "books" out there too..
http://www.amazon.com/Curtis-Waguespack/e/B001JSAVJC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
I would like to know more about the drawing found on the http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html found under the 24 detailed drawings for modeling practice (not really tutorials, but they'll help with practice): A.... (drawing attached).
I see that it is a machined rod bent at 90°. What I want to know is how to get inventor to show the flat pattern of the rod. I have some pipe that I am showing bent in a drawing and would like to show a raw material flat length (flat length with some extra) and then show my shop the bent pattern on the same drawing. The second drawing I attached is the best way I can translate this to the shop, but I don't like it cause its time consuming and has a great opportunity to screw something up if this pipe were to change lengths. I have sketched the hatch pattern onto the view and typed that dimension to reflect the raw material length. if you can help me on this or point me in the direction on how this drawing was done that would be totally awesome.
Thank you.
Hi georgetrott,
Currently the most common way to do this is to have 2 files, typically with one derived from the other in order to keep the design information all in one place, so that if you need to make changes it can be done in one place.
For example:
Or create an iPart to do this:
There is currently an IdeaStation idea to improve this, so that we are not required to create 2 files to pull this off:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/Level-of-Detail-for-Parts/idi-p/3822718
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com