Inventor 2008 Advanced Assembly Modeling builds on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling and Advanced Part Modeling courses to take students to a higher level of productivity creating and working with assemblies in Inventor.

In this course, we begin by discussing the concept of Top-Down Design for assembly creation. Planning the assembly using the top-down design approach helps create clean, reusable geometry that interacts as expected with the rest of the assembly. Throughout the course you will be taught how various Inventor tools can be used to achieve Top-Down Design practices in your assemblies. Other advanced assembly topics include Positional and Level of Detail Representations, iMates and iAssemblies, Frame Generator, Design Accelerator and file management techniques that aim to help you become more efficient when working with assemblies.

Accurately communicating a design to all levels of a design team is important. A chapter has been included on Inventor Studio to teach you how to render and animate realistic images. In addition you will learn about how to accurately use the assembly bill of material functionality.

AutoCAD Training Topics

• Introduction of the Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies and its components
• Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including creating parts and features in the context of the assembly, associative links, adaptive parts, skeleton models, and derived components
• Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using either Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints
• Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or document an assembly in a drawing
• Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies, as well as reduce your time spent waiting for your system to retrieve a large number of components in an assembly.
• Using the Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components and features into your model
• Using iMates and iAssemblies to work efficiently with assemblies
• Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio
• Using pattern, mirror, and copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly
• Working with assemblies to create accurate Bill of Materials
• Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work
• Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file and use it to drive parameters in the model.