Autodesk Inventor Professional 2024 for Designers, 24th Edition

Prof. Sham Tickoo

Jul 2023 · CADCIM Technologies

About this ebook

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2024 for Designers is a comprehensive book that introduces the users to Autodesk Inventor 2024, a feature-based 3D parametric solid modeling software. All environments of this solid modelling software are covered in this book with a thorough explanation of commands, options, and their applications to create real-world products. The mechanical engineering industry examples that are used as tutorials and the related additional exercises at the end of each chapter help the users to understand the design techniques used in the industry to design a product. Additionally, the author emphasizes on the solid modeling techniques that will improve the productivity and efficiency of the users. After reading this book, the users will be able to create solid parts, sheet metal parts, assemblies, weldments, drawing views with bill of materials, presentation views to animate the assemblies and apply direct modeling techniques to facilitate rapid design prototyping.

Salient Features

Comprehensive book consisting of 20 chapters organized in a pedagogical sequence.

Detailed explanation of all concepts, techniques, commands, and tools of Autodesk Inventor Professional 2024.

Step-by-step instructions that guide the users through the learning process.

More than 54 real-world mechanical engineering designs as tutorials and projects.

Self-Evaluation Test, Review Questions, and Exercises are given at the end of the chapters.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Drawing Sketches for Solid Models

Chapter 3: Adding Constraints and Dimensions to Sketches

Chapter 4: Editing, Extruding, and Revolving the Sketches

Chapter 5: Other Sketching and Modeling Options

Chapter 6: Advanced Modeling Tools-I

Chapter 7: Editing Features and Adding Automatic Dimensions to Sketches

Chapter 8: Advanced Modeling Tools-II

Chapter 9: Assembly Modeling-I

Chapter 10: Assembly Modeling-II

Chapter 11: Working with Drawing Views-I

Chapter 12: Working with Drawing Views-II

Chapter 13: Presentation Module

Chapter 14: Working with Sheet Metal Components

Chapter 15: Introduction to Stress Analysis

Chapter 16: Introduction to Weldments *

Chapter 17: Miscellaneous Tools *

Chapter 18: Working with Special Design Tools *

Chapter 19: Introduction to Plastic Mold Design *

Chapter 20: Introduction to Inventor Nastran *

Index (* For free download)

About the author

CADCIM Technologies, Prof. Sham Tickoo of Purdue University Northwest, and the team of dedicated contributing authors at CADCIM Technologies are committed to bring you the best Textbooks, eBooks, and free teaching and learning resources on CAD/CAM/CAE, Computer Programming & Applications, GIS, Civil, Animation & VFX, and related technologies. We strive to be the first and the best. That is our promise and our goal.

Our team of authors consists of highly qualified and experienced engineers, computer programmers, and animation and VFX artists who have strong academic and industrial backgrounds. They understand the needs of the students, the faculty, and the challenges the students face when they start working in the industry. All our books have been structured in a way that facilitates teaching and learning and also exposes students to real-world applications. The textbooks, apart from providing comprehensive study material, are well appreciated for the simplicity of content, clarity of style, and in-depth coverage of the subject.

CADCIM Technologies is one of the world's leading providers of quality CAD/CAM/CAE, Civil, and Animation books. Additionally, the company publishes books in various other fields such as GIS and Computer Programming. Apart from publishing textbooks, the company also provides consultancy services and online training to universities and colleges all over the world.