Good Inventor Tutorials/ Book
 

Does anyone know of any good tutorials or books for inventor?

Something that goes into detail so that the student/reader would be able to look towards it for answers to any problem

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There probably are some out there, but for books, you will have to pay a lot. Computer books aren't cheep. Especially the good ones. My advice, practice on your own and experiment with features and see what things do. That is how I learned Inventor. I honestly can't say how I learned Inventor to begin with. Maybe I forgot, but I knew I knew Inventor to some extent and just started doing the Inventor model for this year and learned along the way. Apparently I knew the basics and just tried stuff. Maybe someone showed me a long time ago and I remembered some, but If you know the basics, then just try stuff and post here with a problem.

For online tutorials, I tied to find stuff on how to do springs, but all I came up with was spring plugins and commercial tutorial stuff. You'll be hard pressed to find something good.

Hey! Maybe that can be incorporated into one of the CAD sites that people are trying to put together! I was working on a power point stuff to teach the basics. I am suppose to give it to one of my teachers to teach his freshmen classes, but I haven't finished the screen shots yet. Maybe someone could bounce off of them when they are done. If ever...

But, yeah, if someone knows of a good tutorial, I would be interested, too. I think I know a good deal, but I probably don't.

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Recently we had a mini Inventor session for our team. The book we used was Autodesk Inventor 8 Essentials. here is a link on amazon to it link

i dont agree with the "customer review" ive never had the program that comes with it crash.

I know it helped me to understand the differnt aspects of inventor. some of the first exercises with constraints have you rezise and reshape some very odd sketches. It also gives you drawings to make parts off of. So you actually learn what was just said in the last chapter. I didnt actually read the book, i just used the cd becasue we only had two copies of the book. So i can only tell you what was good about the cd. hope this helps

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I've found that there are a number of decent Inventor tutorials around. Besides the ones Autodesk includes, there was a recent thread here listing some of the third-party ones.

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Team 487 passed this along to me as a Senior Mentor:
http://www.trainingtutorial.com/
There are educational discounts available:
http://www.trainingtutorial.com/EduDiscounts.htm

I'm currently working with the company as they are interested in providing special pricing for FIRST teams. Stay tuned, I'll post more when I can.

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If your looking for some more complicated stuff like adaptivity, multiple constraint driven animation, ect. I would suggest Sean Dotsons website . Thats where we learned a lot of our stuff from. :D

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We made a couple tutorials on sheet metal parts. You can find them here