Autodesk Inventor mini guide upload

Autodesk Inventor Simple mini guide
Prepared and Compiled by: Bolaji Oladipo

Contents
• Launching the Autodesk Inventor environment
and creating a new document
• Drawing a simple wall bracket
– Sketch
– Extrude Boss/Base tool
– Rib tool
• Conclusion

Launching the Autodesk Inventor
environment
• Double-click on the Autodesk Inventor icon on
the desktop to launch the Autodesk Inventor :
i. Click new then choose the metric template
option and part (standard (mm).ipt) to start a
new single part drawing.
ii. Or choose the assembly option to assemble
already created parts.
iii. Then click ‘Create’

Drawing a simple wall bracket
When drawing on a 3 D environment, there are
usually several ways of realizing a model. This is
due to our different ways of picturing images.
This reason explains why different times are
spent on same drawing, using different
concepts.

A 2D Sketch of the wall bracket
Fig. 1

Steps
• From the left pane draw tree, click the ‘origin’ to
view the various planes available
• From the various planes displayed, select the ‘xy
plane’
• From the top ribbon menu bar, select ‘3D model’
• Select the ‘sketch’ option
• A four cardinal point appears with a center (the
origin)

Steps
• Select ‘center rectangle’ from the
sketch option, snap the mouse to the origin
and draw a rectangle
• Note: All dimensions in ‘mm’ already
• Select ‘Dimension’ and pick the horizontal
side, type 100 mm and press the enter key
• Also, pick the vertical side, type 70 mm and
press the enter key
• You should see a drawing similar to fig. 2

Steps
Fig. 2

Steps
• Click the ‘Finish Sketch’ at the top right corner
of the environment.
• Click ‘Extrude’ from the ‘3D model’ ribbon
and in the space provided for dimension, type
10 mm
• Click the ‘OK’ to confirm the dimension
• You should see a cuboid that looks like fig. 4 as
shown below

Steps
Fig. 3

Steps
Fig. 4

Steps
• Click on the top face of the cuboid
• Click the ‘Create Sketch’
• Select a ‘two point rectangle’
• Sketch by snapping the mouse pointer from the corner
of the rectangle face to the adjacent edge
• Dimension the side to 10 mm by using the ‘dimension’
• Click the ‘Finish Sketch’ at the top right corner of the
environment.
• Extrude by 40 mm using the ‘Extrude’ and by selecting
the newly drawn rectangle with the mouse pointer
• Click ‘OK’

Steps
Fig. 5

Steps
Fig. 6

Creating a rib on the wall bracket
• Select the ‘yz plane’ of the model from the drawing
tree
• Click on ‘Right’ from the view cube at the right of
the environment. This enables the plane to face you.
• Select a line and draw from the top edge of the model
as shown in fig. 7
• Constrain the start of the line to the top edge of the
model by:
– Click on the coincident constraint
– Click on the start of the line
– Click on the top edge of the model

Steps
• Also, by using the same coincident constraint:
– Click on the coincident constraint,
– Click on the end of the line
– Click on the corresponding horizontal edge of the
model as shown in fig. 7
• Click on ‘home’ from the view cube at the right of
the environment to give a 3D view of the model.
• Dimension the vertical edge with the end of the
drawn line as 20 mm

Steps
Fig. 7

Steps
Fig. 8

Steps
• From the ‘3D Model’ option, click ‘rib’
• On the screen, a rib menu dialog box pops up,
make the thickness ‘both sides’ keeping it to 10
mm, click:
– ‘Parallel to sketch plane’
– ‘direction 2’
– ‘to next’
All as appropriate
• Click ‘OK’
• The result should look like fig. 11 below

Steps
Fig. 9

Steps
Fig. 10

Steps
Fig. 11

Conclusion
• Note: This guide is just to give a fore-sight to
Autodesk Inventor environment. The in-depth
shall be taught in class.

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