Autodesk Inventor

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Autodesk Inventor by James Leake (University of Illinois) aims to be a hands-on, tutorial-driven introduction to Autodesk Inventor 6.0. The text provides beginners with the most important aspects of Autodesk Inventor and uses the accompanying CD ROM and website to reinforce learning objectives. Each chapter within the text contains an introduction as it relates to parametric modeling, tutorials, and additional problems. Parametric modelers like Autodesk Inventor focus on creating virtual assemblies of parts (i.e., products) rather than standalone parts. Leake’s text, therefore, is built around product assemblies, as evidenced in the tutorials at the end of each chapter. These tutorials take the user through part and assembly modeling, drawing, documentation, and finally, the simulation, analysis, and presentation of these products. Autodesk Inventor also emphasizes the importance of build strategy. Before each end-of-chapter tutorial, the user will find clearly summarized steps of how to complete it. Taken together, these summary steps amount to a strategy for building each model and allow both new and experienced users to learn to think in terms of features, and to plan out a feature-based build strategy before starting to model. On the accompanying CD to Autodesk Inventor, users can view 30 video tutorials, each with a corresponding learning objective, to model Inventor features and processes. In addition, the CD contains numerous Inventor and associated files (including demos) that enable users to electronically assemble the objects built in the text, such as the ball valve and a garlic press. More video tutorials are available on the Autodesk Inventor website (www.mhhe.com/leake), where users will also find end-of-chapter questions and over 25 downloadable PowerPoint lectures covering topics in engineering graphics, geometric modeling, and parametric modeling.


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Autodesk Inventor by James Leake is a hands-on, tutorial-driven introduction to Autodesk Inventor. Each chapter contains measurable learning objectives, a discussion of tools and features covered in the chapter, tutorials, and additional problems. The text is consequently built around product assemblies, as evidenced by the tutorials covered in each chapter. Autodesk Inventor is a textbook intended to provide readers with the most important aspects of Autodesk Inventor. Each chapter contains an introduction as it relates to parametric modeling, tutorials, and additional problems. The tutorials at the end of each chapter take the user through part and assembly modeling, drawing documentation, and finally, the simulation, analysis, and presentation of these products. Another characteristic of Autodesk Inventor is an emphasis on build strategy. The steps required to complete each end-of-chapter tutorial are summarized at the beginning of the tutorial. Taken together, these summary steps amount to a strategy for building each model. It is important for users new to 3D modeling, as well as experienced users, to learn to think in terms of features, and to plan out a feature-based build strategy before starting to model.


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