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By the end of this unit, you should have created two parts for the cross halving joint, assembled them and fully rendered the completed drawing!

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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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To get started we will draw the side profile of one part of the base.The only tool needed is the line tool.

1.Single click the line

tool

2. Click on the Origin point in the centre of the screen

3. Check that these numbers are set to zero.

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It is useful to use the mouse wheel to zoom out so that you can see the full line.

Draw a horizontal line. Your teacher will show you how to check the ‘Horizontal constraint’

Make sure it is roughly 145mm

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The screen is shown in white so that you can clearly see the dimensions Draw a box which is

roughly this size

Make sure you see the green ‘Auto constraint’ symbol when completing the box

Once finished, make sure you Right click and select ‘Done’

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Click on the dimension tool

Hover your mouse over the line you want to dimension so that it turns red Click on the line and drag

and drop the dimension line anywhere on the screen

1. Single Click on the dimension line and change the value in this box to 145mm

2. Click the green check box

There are two ways to dimension a line. In this way, you will simply click on the line that you want to dimension and then drag and adjust the value.

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Finish dimensioning the rectangle so that it looks like this

Once finished, right click and select Done.This is Very Important

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You are now going to use the line tool to draw two rectangles as shown.

Add dimensions as shown

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Lets use the line tool to draw in some diagonals

Make sure you click on the corners so that the green constraint symbol shows

Don’t forget to Right click and select ‘Done’ when you are finished

MUG TREE INTRODUCTION2. Then Select the Construction Line tool

We are now going to set some of these lines to construction lines so that we can complete the profile

Select the line by clicking on it

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Repeat this process so that all these lines are construction lines

Remember to deselect construction lines when finished

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Using the line tool, complete the profile Draw these three

lines at this point here

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Dimension the three new lines as shown

To complete the profile add in the last three dimensions

Don’t forget to Right click and select ‘Done’ when finished!

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONWe are now ready to finish the 2D Sketch and enter the 3D Modelling environment

Right click on the screen and select ‘Finish Sketch’

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONThe 2D Grid disappears and the panel bar changes to ‘Part Features’

The panel bar has changed to show 3d modelling tools

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONLets change the view to Isometric.This is always a handy view to view your model in. Right click

anywhere on the screen

Select Isometric view

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Click the extrude button

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

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

1. Set this value to 45mm

2. Click OK

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONCongratulations you have made your first part in Inventor

Use the Toggle View tool to view your model at a different angle

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Save your work

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Now its time for you to take control.Open a New ‘Standard Part, ipt’.Referring to the previous instructions. Create the top part of the cross halving joint. Use the drawing below for dimensions.

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Your completed drawing should look like this

Remember to save your work as ‘Top Cross Halving’

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We are now going to look at joining our two parts together by using an assembly drawing.

Select the ‘Standard iam’ template

Make sure the metric tab is selected

Select OK

Assembly

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONWe are now in assembly mode. Everything is just about the same…

This toolbar is called the ‘Assembly Panel’ and has some different functions on it

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1.Select ‘Place component’

2.Select ‘Base cross halving’

Lets place our first component

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONWe are now going to look at joining our two parts together by using an assembly drawing.

IMPORTANT!Press escape on your keyboard so that you don’t create two of the same component!

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Now place another component just as before. Insert your ‘Top Cross Halving’ file….

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONWe now need to join the two parts together so that they are assembled and cant be moved on their own. To do that we use ‘Constraints’.

Select the Constraint tool. In total we will place three constraints on the parts.

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONThe Constraints tool asks us what faces we want to join together. This is also called ‘Mate’

1. This button here is pressed in and it wants you to select the first face to ‘mate’….

2. Click on this face here

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1. Now it is asking you to select the second face…

2. Click on this face here ( make sure it is the top joint)

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It now looks something like this… Lets select the next two faces to join together

Click apply to finish the constraint

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This is the first face to select

The second face is behind here – so you will have to rotate the drawing so you can see in behind…

Here is the second face

Mate the two surfaces together

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONAlmost there. For the last constraint we will make sure that the top surfaces are in line. This is called ‘Flush’

1. Select the Flush command

2. This is the first face to select

3. This small face is the second face to select

Apply the constraint to finish

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Congratulations! You have completed your first assembly!

Rotate your work so that it is roughly in this view

SAVE YOUR ASSEMBLY! Save as ’Mug Tree Assembly’

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Rendering with Inventor Studio

Select ‘Inventor Studio’ from the Applications menu

Open your ’Mug Tree Assembly’ file…

Our page is the same as usual but with a new ‘Inventor Studio’ toolbar that will help us render

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONLets look at surface styles

This button will apply the style

Change the material by selecting any one of these.REMEMBER – the Mug Tree is made out of Wood!

You can change options like ‘Shininess’ in these menus

IMPORTANT – Make sure you have selected your model so that you can change the Surface Style

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Lets look at Lighting styles

Select any type of light. If it asks to ‘Save the changes’, select ‘Yes’

Select shadow type

Set how bright or dim you want the light to be

Save your changes

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Lets look at Scene styles

Select ‘XZ Reflective GP’

Select colours for your Gradient background

The Environment tab, allows you to change Shadows and Reflections

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Finally select Render Image

Select the Perspective camera for a more Pictorial view

Make sure that you select the XZ Reflective GP

You can improve the quality

Select Render

MUG TREE INTRODUCTIONCongratulations! You have completed your fully rendered drawing.

Make sure you save the picture!