Accelerated Productivity 10: Solid Modeling, An Interactive Course for Autodesk Inventor 10

Accelerated Productivity 10: Solid Modeling is an Autodesk Inventor 10 Certified course designed to quickly build professional Inventor skills. It’s different than any book you’ve ever used, because there is no text. Step-by-Step instruction is presented in short, fully animated movies that show and tell you how to become a professional solid modeler. This format combines the best aspects of a book and hands-on training. You see and hear the lessons, as if you have your own personal expert sitting with you, and it’s fully indexed so you can always find the information you need.

Using a learn-by-seeing-and-practicing approach, users instantly know how to perform each task because they see it being performed by the instructor while he explains how it's done. Easily learn the fundamentals through advanced concepts simply by watching this course.

Students, Faculty, Mechanical Design Professionals, and CAD administrators enjoy the dynamic flexibility of this course because it automatically tracks up to 10 users on a single workstation. Simply sign in and the course automatically opens the last lesson viewed by the user. Users can easily view lessons from their history log, watch lessons from a large list of lessons, use the Memory Jogger to quickly find lessons by entering a keyword phrase, or watch the next lesson in the course. All study tracking is automatic, so the user can simply close the lesson player to end a study session. The next time the user opens the course the last lesson he or she viewed automatically begins playing.

This course is designed to show you how to use all the commands required to create solid models. You'll learn techniques that will make your work more efficient, and will assure that your solid models are editable. Instruction begins with the basics and builds to more advanced concepts of 3D part construction. Sketches and profiles are discussed in depth, as well as useful tricks for producing professionally constructed models. Other time saving tools include projecting and mirroring geometry and linking Excel spreadsheets to control part geometry. You’ll also gain experience with powerful tools like loft, shell, rib and array, just to name a few. You’ll master the skills you need to create dynamic and highly functional single part solid models.