Teaching Newbies Inventor

[Elgin Clock]

Anyone have any suggestions for a user who knows SolidWorks but wants to learn Inventor? I'm a CAD major & a Drafter in my career, so I know CAD, it would just be a matter of just learning a different (brand) software.

Any suggestions (re: books, online training) for those who have used SW first and then went to Inventor would be appreciated.

I want to be able to help my team a little more in 2008 than I did the past year from knowing the software.

It took us litteraly 1 hour to learn how to export a part in Inventor last year because the command wasn't where I thought it "should" be by using Solidworks.

When you only have a few days to crank out CAD drawings, an hour is just way too much time to spend on something that would usually take 2 minutes at the most.

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Anyone have any suggestions for a user who knows SolidWorks but wants to learn Inventor? I'm a CAD major & a Drafter in my career, so I know CAD, it would just be a matter of just learning a different (brand) software.

Sorry for taking a while to reply. I don't have a good answer to your question. Of course you could learn the same way that everyone else does, but it would be a waste of time to go through tutorials or a book since you already know the concepts.

My one suggestion is to use Inventor Help (help menu). The help system is really extensive; it has an explanation of the concept, workflow, and options for every single tool. If you know the term for the function you're looking for, you can use the index or search to find it.

[JD Mather]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Any suggestions (re: books, online training) for those who have used SW first and then went to Inventor would be appreciated.

See these tutorials - particularly start with the MA13 and the MA105 tutorials.
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content..._tutorials.htm