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 Inventor Presentation

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New→Presentation

Click on the arrow next to New to pull up the same units and format as you previously had open, or click on the word "New" to pull up the menu that lets you choose units and specific formats:

arrow→generic

click on word→specific formats

You can insert your assembly into the presentation when you first create the presentation 

Or you can "cancel" out of the opening screen,

 open up a blank presentation, and "Insert Model" later

Your opening screen should have a model space, snapshot views, 

a storyboard, and ribbon with tools.  If you are missing anything, 

just go to View→User Interface→click on all of the tools you want to have access to

Have a look around in the model tab - you can access each part in your assembly here, 

modify your drawings, turn visibility on or off, etc.

Right click on the corner of your view cube, experiment with the different presentation views.

Position your assembly with a clear orientation

Click on "New Snapshot View" to snap a picture,

then right click on the view to rename, make a jpg, etc.

Pull the slider on the storyboard to some time (4 seconds) to start creating a movie

Tweak components→right click on one of the arms, and pull it away.

To showcase your work, take all of the pieces apart, and show how it is assembled.

Choose the time for your animation, if you want a trail etc.

After you click on the green check mark, your tweak shows up in your storyboard.  

Play the movie, click and drag the animations on your storyboard to change the time and order

Try out a rotational tweak, and notice where the tweaks are being stored in your model space

and in your storyboard.  Drag the blue rectangles in your storyboard to change the time

and order of the animations

Take apart and move each piece in your assembly to allow viewer to clearly see everything:

capture camera - 

rotate assembly to a new view

click on capture camera

adjust timing in the story board

Experiment with some of the visual styles and backgrounds:

When you are finished, save the video!

inventor idw's

creating Title Blocks and projected views

Open up a new drawing - 

It defaults to the wrong sized sheet - right click on "sheet 1", edit, and choose size A paper:

Delete the default border and title block - right click, and delete

Create your own custom border
Drawing Resources→Define New Zone Border→

Zone borders divide up the sheet to help you describe where features are in a schematic.  Decide how many zones you would like - 

This will take you into a sketch mode where you can further modify your borders if you want - go ahead and just finish the sketch:

Give your custom border a name:

 Your newly created border is now in your Drawing Resources tab.  Right click on it, and insert it into your sheet.

Your custom border should now be on your sheet: 

Now to create a Title block:
right click→define new title block

Draw some rectangles just like we did in AutoCAD

Fill in text, insert your company logo:

New feature in Inventor - Auto-filled Title blocks!

Look through the Property menu to see all of the different things you can add.

Auto fill in the scale:

Create your own entries: 

 Just fill in text telling the user what data you want in the titleblock:

Once you are done creating your custom Title Block, Finish the Sketch: 

Save your TitleBlock:

Right click on the Title Block you created under drawing resources, and insert it into your sheet:

It will ask you to fill in any prompted entries you created:

You can also go back later to fill data in - just right click on anything you want to change!

Fill in the "iproperties" for your file.  i properties help you organize your work, and can all be linked to your Title Block

explore all of the properties you can assign to your work:

 Try out Inventor's ViewBase equivalent

Projected Views:

Auxiliary views:

Try out some of the dimension features.