All these autodesk Inventor works have been done during different parts of the year, and thus they are not in the same project. Throughout the school year, IED students have modeled tons of objects in Autodesk inventor, but a lot of these individual pieces are done when we are learning 3D AutoCad. We did a lot of Autodesk practices during the second trimester, which is halfway through the year. Our teacher made several video tutorials online to guide us through each steps in modeling these pieces. He taught us how to use different functions and features in inventor, such as extrude, revolve, sweep, coil, emboss, loft, decal, fillet as well as different planes that includes offset planes, normal to axis through point, midway between two planes, and tangent to surface through edge, etc. Some of the Autodesk Inventor works here are based on our teacher's tutorials. The modeling in Autodesk can be sometimes a lot of time depends on its complicity and how many features it requires.
Lofted Table
Build the table involves function such as loft and rectangular pattern. The most valuable thing I learned from making this table is that Loft function allows modeling a 3D piece with combinations 2 different geometric shapes.
Birdhouse Project
- The Birdhouse Project is probably the hardest Autodesk Inventor work we did in IED besides the Pencil Sharpener Project. For the birdhouse, we not only need to 3D model but also use the actual wood to build it. The tools we used to built the birdhouse includes measuring tape--used to determine where to cut a piece of wood, cutting saws--used to efficiently cut the pieces of wood that makes up the components of the birdhouse, screw gun--used to insert screws or used to pre-drill with the drill bits.
- Birdhouse is the only inventor works on this page that I created without my teacher's guidance.
- Below are the Birdhouse I built in Autodesk Inventor, the exploded presentation on the right shows all the parts that makes up the assembly.
These videos show the birdhouse modeled in Inventor.
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The completed wooden Birdhouse pictures
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Conclusions
We have done tons of Autodesk works this year in IED Class. All these Inventor parts solidifies my skills with Autodesk Inventor. All these Modeling in Autodesk is a really good opportunity to practice the skills in 3D Autocad. The process of making a 3D object in Inventor gets easier and simpler every-time as I got more familiar with its features. It's quite challenging for me to model my first a few 3D objects even though with the tutorials. However, after doing more and more 3D Autocad, I started taking on more complicated objects and I modeled them with no problems. Practicing these modeling skills helps me build in confidence and help me become more professional with Autodesk. Even though I started the year without knowing anything about Autocad, by the end of year, thanks to all the practice AI Works I have done in class, I am now capable of building almost every object I see in regular life no matter how complex it is.