Inventor Basic Cad

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Basics
What is Computer Aided Design
(CAD)?
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Computational Mechanics, AAU, Esbjerg
Course Outline
1. Introduction
1. What is Computer Aided Design (CAD) – Solid modeling, parametric geometry, feature based
2. Inventor Basics – GUI, Menus, Viewing, Mouse, Setup, Saving
3. The modeling process – sketch plane selection, sketch mode/sketching, solidification/feature creation
4. Component creation – example
2. Component creation
1. Design intend
2. Sketching – keep it simple, “think big”
3. Features
1. Sketched features
2. Pick & place
3. Work features (points, axes, planes)
4. Component creation – example
3. Component modification/redefinition
1. geometrical hierarchy, constraints – model tree, generation order, associative models
4. Assembly of components
1. Basics
2. Constraints
3. Associative models
4. Managing assemblies - Top-down/bottom-up – skeleton models - Design for assembly
5. Detailing
1. Basics
2. View creation
3. Annotation – dimensioning
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Computational Mechanics, AAU, Esbjerg (CAD)?
CAD Computer- Aided Drafting
and Design
• 2D - Two Dimensional
• 3D - Three Dimensional
– Wire Frame Models
– Surface Models
– Solid Models
– Parametric Models

Wireframe Modeling

Wireframe Modeling

3D Wire Frame Modeling
• Disadvantages:
– Not able to fully define
real objects
(No volume and mass)
– Displays only edges of
a model

Surface Modeling

Surface Modeling

Surface Modeling
• Surface models
provide a more
complete description
of the object, but is
still not as good as
the solid model.

Surface Modeling

Solid Modeling

Solid Modeling

Solid Modeling Solid
B-Rep CSG
Boundary Constructive
Representation: Solid Geometry:
•Extrusion •Uses solid primitives
(cylinder, cone, etc.)
•Revolving
as building blocks
•Sweeping •Construction of solid
•Blending by combining
of 2-D profiles primitives using
Boolean operators of
union, intersection,
and difference

Solid modeling - basics
• Solids models are known to be complete, valid,
and unambiguous representations of objects.
• A complete solid is one which enables a point in
space to be classified relative to the object, if it is
inside, outside or on the object.
• This classification is called as spatial
addressability or set membership classification.
• A valid solid should not have dangling edges or
faces, then only it will allow interference
analysis, mass property calculations, finite
element modeling and analysis, CAPP, machine
vision, and NC part programming.
Solid modeling - Basics
Two details required to define an object:
• Geometry: describes location and size of entities.
Example: coordinates of a point.
• Topology: describes how the entities are connected
among themselves. Example: concavity or convexity of
an arc.

Solid modeling - Basics

Solid Modeling Functions
• Different ways that a user can create solid
shapes:
– Primitive creation
– Boolean operations
– Sweep operations
– Surface operations
– Engineering Feature-Based modeling
– Parametric modeling

Primitive Creation

Boolean Operations

Sweeping Operations

Surface Operations

Modeling structure
• 2D Wireframe – Points and

Lines
• 3D Wireframe – Points and
Edges
• Surface Modeling – Adding a
surface to 3D Wireframe
• Solid Modeling – Constructive
Solid Geometry
– Assembling primitive solids by
adding or subtracting

Constructive Solid Geometry
(CSG)
• Objects are built from
Primitive Solids
Join or Union
Cut or Difference
Intersection or Common Material

Constructive Solid Geometry
(CSG)

Feature-Based Modeling

Parametric Modeling
• Parameters come from:
– dimensions in 2D sketches
– dimensions on 3D geometry (advanced
systems only)
– modeling operation parameters
– variables in user-equations
• Entire part geometry can be controlled by
a small number of key parameters!

Parametric Modeling
Parametric Modeling
Dimension-Driven Modeling Constraint-Based Modeling
Uses parameters to Uses geometric

specify dimensions of constraints such as
entities parallelism, concentricity,
etc.

Parametric Modeling


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• 2D Wireframe – Points and

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Intersection or Common Material

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Dimension-Driven Modeling Constraint-Based Modeling

Uses parameters to Uses geometric

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