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Users Guide To Inventor

Hey everyone, it has been a long time since I have really posted anything. I had noticed from previous threads a while ago people asking the best way to learn Autodesk Inventor. This same issue came up with our team, 461, as how best to learn it. Last season the college advisors kinda taught Inventor to the high school students on the fly. However, for this season I have come up with a Users Guide on how to use Inventor. It has seemed to work very well with our team and I would like to offer it to the FIRST Community. It covers the basics as far as how to create a sketch, part, assembly, and drawings for manafacturing. As of now, the document can be found on Team 461's Website in the White Papers section. Here is a link:
http://www.boilerinvasion.org/?page=white_papers
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Re: Users Guide To Inventor

inventor is pretty easy to pick up...if ur like me and dont want to read about u can just mess around with it till u get the basics. but i will certainly get out that site raj
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Re: Users Guide To Inventor

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inventor is pretty easy to pick up...if ur like me and dont want to read about u can just mess around with it till u get the basics. but i will certainly get out that site raj
It's pretty cool that you can pick it up like that, but sometimes some people need a little more direction. So, I guess this was my way of kinda helping out the students on our team with that.
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yea i looked at thay site and it is good. even i learned somethinmg new
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Re: Users Guide To Inventor

Thanks. Been looking for the online one for a while.
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Re: Users Guide To Inventor

Raj -

Thanks for posting your tutorial! You've done a great job of presenting the basics clearly and understandably. I'm glad to see your section on the use of constraints in sketching - that is an often-overlooked, but very important, part of creating a good design in Inventor.

Although Inventor is pretty easy to pick up without formal training, I'm sure many Inventor users will find your tutorial helps them up the steepest part of the learning curve.

BTW, for "Inventors" looking for tutorials on more advanced topics, check out Sean Dotson's excellent site: http://www.sdotson.com/index.asp Sean covers everything from the basics through constrain-driven animation and creating iParts and iFeatures. Two other must-have links are:
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/index.htm (Charles Bliss's parts libraries)
http://www.firstcadlibrary.com/ (Ed Sparks FIRST parts libraries)

For those using 8020 for their bots, C Bliss has an excellent iPart for creating all the different sizes of their extrusions: http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts...-Extrusion.zip You'll find it doesn't work as downloaded, though - you have to open it and move the end of part marker down to the bottom of the browser and save the part first. (Charles has a note about this at http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/iPartsDeMystified.htm)
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