Best Place to Learn Inventor

[David]

Hello. I am trying to learn how to use inventor, but unfortunately no one else on my team has any experience with the program. I can already do most basic features, like assemblies and parts, and have designed a precise chassis, but i am at a lose for any of the more complex features like bolted connections, weldments, and stress analysis. Is there any place where i can get tutorials on advanced features. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Kelly]

Inventor comes with tutorials for a lot of its features. I know for sure that there is one covering bolted connections.

[cooker52]

We had a mentor give us a personal tutorial. Some schools have programs that will teach you inventor as part of the program. I will mess around in the tutorials if I am not sure about something. The best place to start is with the tutorials since you don't have anybody else (unless you can find a teacher, ask around in your school), and then if you have any questions, post them on CD.

Cookie

[Brandon Holley]

go through the tutorials first
learn the basic functions


then start small and start making parts that you may actually use on a robot

[David]

I already can do the basic functions. I could make everything look accurate, down to the nuts and bolts, but i want to learn the proper ways of doing things. Making parts and assemblies isn't the problem (I once proved an engineer wrong using inventor when he was using a pencil and paper) Its actually doing it correctly is what i am having a problem with. I can line everything up, and assemble it, but its the more advanced features, mostly stress analysis and making welds that actually work that is my problem.

[cooker52]

There are tutorials for weldments and if you look around, I think someone already had asked about the stress analysis.

[Rich Ross]

also, i remember seeing video tutorials online somewhere. Try googling it. If i find the tutorials again, ill post a link.

[JD Mather]

Search your hard drive in the Inventor folder for *.pdf files and there is a curriculum pdf available at http://engineersrule.org Also contact your local reseller and request the free AOTC - Autodesk Inventor Dynamic Simulation and FEA pdf and dataset.