Part 1 - Part Modeling In Autodesk Inventor 2011

Full Demo Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8F796ECBCAA7AB03

This demonstration roughly follow the first part modeling tutorial in Inventor. The purpose it to show the basics of part modeling and provide a few tips along the way.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• John Helfen
• Autodesk
• Inventor
• Part Modeling
• Basics
• Sketching
• Work Features

[TheShoctopus]

I have the 2012 version and im trying to edit the xz plane and not the satarting one. Theres no HUD to quickly select which plane you want to edit. Ive only had this software for a few hours and have no previous use with it. I got the student version because were going to eventually use in in my 10th grade engineering class.

[JohnHelfen]

@TheShoctopus Welcome to Inventor. I will try my best to help you out. You don't edit the XY plane you sketch on it or reference it. In the browser on the left there is an origin folder that contains the origin planes...the default planes that intersect at 0,0,0. If you expand that you can select a plane and the HUD will display allowing you to create your first sketch. If you want you can turn the visibility of those plane on and off by right clicking them and checking visibility.

[Davichoo]

I have a dilemma, I'm trying to use 3DS MAX with Inventor, but by default the gizmo is not oriented the same way on both programs, why did you set your Z axis upwards? Is it because Inventor is set in the wrong way?

[JohnHelfen]

@Davichoo I think you mean why didn't we set Z to be up? Honestly, I have not idea. I change it ever time. I sketch on the XY plane and set Z to point up. You can set this up in Inventor by right clicking on the view cube and using the set home view and set current view options. When opening the inventor files in MAX I also think there is an option to align the axis, but I might be wrong there. Hope this helps.

[powerbronx]

How did you select all the xz xy etc. planes at once. it will only let me select 1 at a time

[JohnHelfen]

@powerbronx Do you mean in the browser to turn them all on/off at the same time? If so, then you use standard windows conventions....select the the first plane in the list, hold the shift key down and select the last plane in the list. Then you can right click on them and turn them all on or off at once. There is also a button on the view tab (which i promote to the quick access toolbar) that toggles workplanes on/off with a click of a button. Hope this helps.

[powerbronx]

@JohnHelfen Thanks So much I was trying to highlight them all like words on a website. !

[JohnHelfen]

@C00kie007 It is called the Browser and you can turn it back on by clicking the View Tab in the ribbon bar and finding the User Interface button in the Window panel. When you click the button it will bring up a list of interface items that can be toggled on and off. Just check the box next to Browser and you are back in business.

[C00kie007]

I accidentally quit the menu on the left of the screen. Where you can find the roots. Do you know how to bring it back?

[TheTrueSalpan]

@JohnHelfen John your awesome :d, my school uses this and i love building things physically so it gets pricy so now i use this and understand some of it :D