Digital Prototyping using Autodesk Inventor

Overview

Digital Prototyping course provides hands on experience on how modern technologies improve the product development cycle. Today’s product design and manufacturing companies are faced with increased competition and growing market demands. To ensure that the companies and products are successful, digital prototyping methods are used to gain advantage and produce better products. The course will focus on the different stages of the product development cycle with a consistent workshop projects used throughout. The course starts with ideation, the initial phase of development and concludes with producing technical publications of the product for marketing and support. Each segment of the course will contain lectures that illustrate the market demands and relationships of the product development cycle.

Course Objective

Upon successful completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Produce rapid digital prototypes that demonstrate key elements of an intended design for the purposes of evaluation & iteration.
• Research & identify appropriate digital prototyping tools for the communication of a particular design solution.
• Analyze & reflect on critique/evaluation of prototypes and iterate designs accordingly.

Course Outline

The contents of this course are designed to support the course objectives. The following focus areas are included in this course:

• Module 1: Getting Started
• Module 2: Basic Sketching Techniques
• Module 3: Basic Shape Design
• Module 4: Detailed Shape Design
• Module 5: Assembly Design Overview
• Module 6: Placing, Creating, and Constraining Components
• Module 7: Interacting with an Assembly
• Module 8: Basic View Creation
• Module 9: Dimensions, Annotations, and Tables
• Module 10: Annotating Assembly Drawings
• Module 11: Drawing Standards and Resources

Course Deliverables