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Originally Posted by team_mom
In LegoCad there was a set of parts (bricks, rods, pegs, etc.) that you would click on and then drag into place.
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As a past user of LEGO cad and a current user of Inventor, I understand the transitional confusion here. I think that it stems from the fact that in Lego, since there are a limited set of parts to choose from, almost all of them are premodeled, allowing you to just drag-and-drop them into an assembly.
In Inventor, since the set of parts is only as limited as the machining and design skills of your team (or in the real world, your company.) Instead of pulling parts from a list, as you would in LegoCad, you have to create them, just as the mechanically oriented memberss of your team have to physically create them. The only exception to this rule is the Kit of Parts (the FIRST supplied kit that you received at your kickoff event) which is available in the form of the Virtual Kit of Parts at
https://projectpoint.buzzsaw.com/first and any Inventor models that Ed Sparks (my own personal hero) has donated to the FIRST community through his website,
www.firstcadlibrary.com. These parts
are premade and can be dragged and dropped into an assembly file.
Also at
https://projectpoint.buzzsaw.com/first is the area to post your entry files to FIRST, and some video tutorials which I found more helpful than the ones packaged with Inventor.
Sorry to be long-winded, hope I helped.