Autodesk Inventor 2023: Sheet Metal Design
Learn sheet metal modeling in Autodesk Inventor 2023, from creating and editing parts to generating flat patterns and documentation.
Retail Price: $1,195.00
Next Date: 08/19/2026
Course Days: 2
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Course Objectives
- 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
Course Outline
Introduction to Sheet Metal Modeling
- Sheet Metal Concepts
- Sheet Metal Terminology
- Sheet Metal Environment
- Sheet Metal Design Process
Sheet Metal Base Features
- Applying Existing Sheet Metal Defaults
- Creating a Face as a Base Feature
- Creating a Contour Flange as a Base Feature
- Creating a Contour Roll as a Base Feature
Sheet Metal Secondary Features
- Sheet Metal Parameters
- Bend Relief Shapes
- Faces as Secondary Features
- Contour Flanges as Secondary Features
- Contour Rolls as Secondary Features
Flanges
- Creating Flanges
- Corner Relief Options
Bending Sheet Metal
- Hems
- Folds
- Bends