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.
Inventor comes with tutorials for a lot of its features. I know for sure that there is one covering bolted connections.
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.
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go through the tutorials first
learn the basic functions
then start small and start making parts that you may actually use on a robot
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.
There are tutorials for weldments and if you look around, I think someone already had asked about the stress analysis.
also, i remember seeing video tutorials online somewhere. Try googling it. If i find the tutorials again, ill post a link.
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.