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Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

By : Alexander Bordino
Book Image

Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook

By: Alexander Bordino

Overview of this book

Autodesk Inventor is an industry-leading, computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation. This book will help to bridge the gap between the fundamentals of this software and the more advanced features, workflows, and environments it has to offer. Using cookbook-style recipes, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding and practical experience in creating dynamic 3D parts, assemblies, and complete designs. You’ll also explore a variety of topics, including automation and parametric techniques, collaboration tools, creating sheet metal designs, and design accelerators such as frame generators. As you progress, the chapters will guide you through surface modeling tools, advanced assembly, and simplification tools, along with covering iLogic, Finite Element Analysis, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to use the advanced functionality within Autodesk Inventor but also have the practical experience you need to deploy specific techniques in your own projects and workflows.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating solid geometry from basic extruded and lofted surfaces

With this recipe, you will complete the modeling of an EV charger using basic surface tools. You will learn how to create a basic extruded surface for use as a termination point for an extrude and how to create and apply a lofted surface, which transitions between two edges on different surfaces. The resultant surfaces will then be combined with a stitch operation and converted to solid geometry.

The completed model of the EV charger you will create is shown in Figure 4.17:

Figure 4.17: Completed EV charger model

Getting ready

You will need to access the EV Charger.ipt file in the EV Charger folder within the Chapter 4 folder.

How to do it…

The EV charger model is partially created and you do not have to build this from scratch. We will be applying surface modeling techniques to complete the model. To do this, let’s see the following:

  1. Open EV Charger.ipt. The unconsumed...