Inventor 2008 FirstBase Tutorials

[aksimhal]

Hi! Has anyone got the online tutorial for Inventor 2008 called "Introduction" to work? I've installed Inventor 2008 and the "Datasets" but what exactly am I supposed to do from there?
Thanks a million,
Anish

[Jeff 801]

I beleave the instructions for the Tutorials are in the menu Help> Tutorials

Originally Posted by aksimhal

Hi! Has anyone got the online tutorial for Inventor 2008 called "Introduction" to work? I've installed Inventor 2008 and the "Datasets" but what exactly am I supposed to do from there?
Thanks a million,
Anish

[aksimhal]

Hi,
Sorry for not being specific.

Exercise Setup

These tutorials are designed so you can follow the step-by-step exercises onscreen. After launching the onscreen exercises, you might need to alter the size of your application window to align both windows.

1. Start the application.
2. Select a module and exercise from the list of modules and exercises in the pane on the left.
3. Click the Start the Exercise button to launch the exercise window
4. Resize the application so that you can still see the exercise window.
5. Complete each exercise using the application.

This is from the FirstBase website. Where are the modules in Inventor?

Thanks,
Anish

P.S. Will it be necessary to upgrade to Inventor 2008 to use to 2008 KOP Inventor parts?

[petek]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

P.S. Will it be necessary to upgrade to Inventor 2008 to use to 2008 KOP Inventor parts?

If past years are anything to go by, this year's virtual KOP will be Inventor 2008 files. Assuming that is the case, you will need Inv 2008, or have somebody with Inv 2008 save them as STEP for use with earlier versions.

[aksimhal]

Hi!
Thanks for the information about the Inventor KOP! Have you tried using the FirstBase tutorials (especially the first one)?

Thanks,
Anish

[aksimhal]

Hi!

Has anyone got the Autodesk FirstBase Tutorials to work?

Thanks a million,
Anish

[grsnovi]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

Hi! Has anyone got the online tutorial for Inventor 2008 called "Introduction" to work? I've installed Inventor 2008 and the "Datasets" but what exactly am I supposed to do from there?
Thanks a million,
Anish

I think what you are supposed to do is this:

Introduction - this "step" gives you the button needed to download the data sets you'll need for the rest of the examples - but you don't really "do" anything yet.

Then you need to work between the web browser window, select (for example) the next one down: "Autodesk Inventor and Robot Design"

When that comes up, click the button that says START THE EXERCISE which will launch a "tutorial" window that you ought to be able to slide over next to the Inventor window.

You'll proceed through the various exercises and work on the files that you downloaded in the Introduction.

Inventor delivers a bunch of tutorials that you could do without downloading any of this stuff. From the main HELP menu, pick HELP TOPICS (it should be the first one down) then after the Inventor help page opens up about mid-way down the list pick TRY IT TUTORIALS

This will open a new window with a listing of tutorials. Look at the section labeled: Basics and try starting with Creating a Part

[aksimhal]

Hi!

Thanks so much. I just got it work.

Thanks,
Aksimhal