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Autodesk Inventor: Sheet Metal Design

This training course introduces the core concepts and techniques for creating sheet metal models in Autodesk Inventor. The topics follow a typical Autodesk Inventor workflow: creating and editing sheet metal parts, generating flat patterns, and documenting designs in drawings.

IMAGINiT's Sneak Peek Into Training. View Now. Topics Covered in this Autodesk Inventor Training Course:
  • Understanding the Autodesk Inventor Sheet Metal interface and workflow
  • Creating base faces, contour flanges, and contour rolls
  • Creating secondary faces, contour flanges, and contour rolls
  • Working with sheet metal parameters
  • Creating flanges
  • Adding hems, folds, and bends to sheet metal models
  • Adding corner rounds and chamfers to sheet metal models
  • Removing geometry from a sheet metal model (holes, cuts, and punch features)
  • Controlling sheet metal geometry using corner seams (seams and miters)
  • Generating flat patterns
  • Creating lofted flanges
  • Creating rip features to permit the flattening of the sheet metal geometry
  • Unfolding and refolding sheet metal geometry
  • Designing multi-body sheet metal models
  • Documenting and annotating sheet metal drawings
  • Converting solid models to sheet metal models
  • Working with sheet metal styles
Prerequisites for this Autodesk Inventor Training Course:
  • Proficiency in Autodesk Inventor basics, as covered in Autodesk Inventor: Introduction to Solid Modeling.
  • Knowledge of sheet metal processing is an asset.
Course description shown for Autodesk Inventor 2027.
Topics, curriculum, and/or prerequisites may change depending on software version.
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