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After double clicking on the Inventor Icon on your desktop, this screen will appear

1. Click on the Metric Tab

2. Double click on the ‘Standard ipt’

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3 – This is the Browser Bar – this shows the model history and allows you to modify your model

1 – This is the Standard Toolbar

2 – This is the Panel Bar Area – it controls most of the Part features

This is the 2d–Sketch Panel.This is where you will do all of your sketching and dimensioning in 2D.

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1 Click on the Two Point

Rectangle tool

2. Click on your screen and drag and draw a rectangle of

any size

You are now going to draw one side of your box. This will be the side that has the ‘Housing Joints’ cut out of it.

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Hover your mouse over the line you want to dimension so that it turns red

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Hover your mouse over the line you want to dimension so that it turns red

Click on the dimension tool

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1. Click on the line and drag and drop the dimension line anywhere on the screen

2. Single Click on the dimension line and change the value in this box to 70mm

3. Click the green check box

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TRINKET BOXDimension the length of your side.Make sure it is the actual size of your box! Once finished, right

click and select Done.This is Very Important

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TRINKET BOXWe are now ready to finish the 2D Sketch and enter the 3D Modelling environment

Right click on the screen and select ‘Finish Sketch’

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The panel bar has changed to show 3d modelling tools

The 2D Grid disappears and the panel bar changes to ‘Part Features’

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Click on the ‘Zoom All’ tool

Right click anywhere on the screen and select ‘Isometric

View’

Lets change the view to Isometric.This is always a handy view to view your model in.

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1. Click the extrude button

We will use the extrude feature to make our model 3D

Inventor automatically selects the profile we have drawn and extrudes it 10mm. A preview of this is shown on the screen

2. Set this value to 12mm

3. Click OK

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TRINKET BOXWe are now going to draw the sections to ‘Cut Out’ for the joints

1. Right click on this face

2. Select ‘New Sketch’

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Lets look at this face from straight on . . .1. Click on the ‘Look At’ tool

2. Click on this face

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Draw on these lines to show your housing joints

Make sure you dimension them correctly

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Finish your sketch and enter the 3D modelling environment

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1. Hover your mouse over these areas until they turn red

2. Click on the area and it will turn to blue

Select EXTRUDE . . .

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To take the material away . . .

1. Click the ‘Remove Material’ button

2. Change this value to 6

3. Click OK

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1. Click on the ‘+’ sign 2. Right click on ‘Sketch 2’

3. Select ‘Share Sketch’

Before we can sketch again on the same face, we must firstly Share the Sketch

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Now see if you can draw the shape for the ‘Biscuit Joint’ in the same way as before.

It is 3mm wide and should be ‘Extruded Down’ 3mm

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Save your work

Save as ‘Box Long Side’

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Short Side

Base Top (with Insert)

Select a New Part file and see if you can make each of these individual parts.

Be careful and double check your sizes!