New to Inventor...

[kam3]

I would like to learn Inventor 2008. What would be a good book and/or website to get me started?

 

Thanks,

[shift1313]

you can check the autodesk website. they have good tutorials on some of their other software. This website has a good knowledge base as well. Is there something you want to do with the software? If you open it up there is lots of good help info built in.

[kam3]

I would like to learn the basics so as to be able to create parts, assemblies, and drawings. I have been able to create a few simple parts using the built-in Help menu, but I feel that I might be able to pick it up faster, if I have some parts to model step-by-step.

[shift1313]

there are a bunch of preloaded assemblies, some very cool stuff, that should get your mind going. I am decent with the solid parts, assemblies, animation and fea stuff but i havent tried to model anything freeform yet. One of the preloaded parts is an electric shaver. Its pretty impressive.

[kam3]

that is impressive, as are the engine and suspension. i'm sure i'll pick up a few things by "reverse engineering" some of the sample files.

[BikeGuy]

There are a lot of resources out there for learning inventor.

I can't post websites here yet (I'm just setting up a bunch of posts so I can soon).

But if you go to sdotson . com (look up sean dotson inventor) look in the forums under tutorials. That site allows users to post websites and I've posted all my favorite tutorials.

The book that I used was Autodesk Inventor inside and out. But there are lots of them.

[ashish]

Kindly let me know how do i start new thread

[BikeGuy]

Just go up one level (click on Autodesk Inventor in the chain) and at the top will be a button for 'new thread'

See the attached image

[Enfiel3D]

On the menu bar in Inventor, just next to a help icon there is a visual syllabus icon. Click it and discover a lot of useful animations teaching you things.