Course length: 4 days

Upcoming Classes in Mentor, OH

Call 440-255-8788, or email us training@caddfx.com for more information.

Description

No Inventor experience is necessary, but participants should be comfortable opening, saving and closing files; moving, copying and deleting files; locating files in different folders and reading blueprints. Students should have a basic understanding of mechanical drafting or design. Exercises for the workshop are designed to cover typical mechanical design requirements. Clients are encouraged to send examples of daily use requirements and when possible these requirements will be used in the course of the training.

Day 1

• Using the Style Manager
• General Style Properties
• Working With Materials, Classifications, and Display Properties
• User Interface
• Project File
• File Types
• Help and Tutorials
• View Manipulation and tools
• Designing Parametric Parts
• Basic Sketching Sketch Reorienting
• Successful Sketches
• Geometric Constraints
• Dimensioning Sketches
• Basic Shape Design - Sketch based Features
• Construction Geometry
• Reference Geometry

Day 2

• Editing Parametric Parts
• 3D grip Editing
• Creating Work Features - Planes, Axis , Work points
• Basic Swept Shapes
• Shape Design Features - Fillets, Chamfers
• Hole Features
• Patterning and Mirroring Features
• Shelling to create thin wall parts
• Assembly and Assembly Design
• Project File Configuration
• Assembly Constraints
• Assembly Viewing and Editing
• Use of Standard Components
• Manufacturing Community
• In Place Part Design

Day 3

• Assembly interaction - Isolation, Browser Filters, Locating Part
• Analysis and Motion Tools -  Physical Properties, Interferences, Motion Studies
• Presentation Views and Presentation Animation
• Drawing Creation and the Drawings Environment  - Base Views, Exploded, and Projected
• Section Views
• Cropped Views
• Managing and Aligning Views
• Dimensioning - Retrieving Model Dims, Editing Model Dims
• Annotation
• Feature Annotation
• Center lines
• Symbols
• Leaders
• Revision Tables and Tags

Day 4

• Bill of Materials
• Item Numbering
• Customized Parts Lists
• Balloons
• Drawing Standards - Creating and Editing
• Defining Active Standard
• Using Layers
• Creating Sheets - Borders, Title Blocks