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Autodesk Inventor, one of the industry’s leading digital prototyping solutions, enables design, engineering, and manufacturing teams to collaborate throughout the process of product development.
Working with Eleven, Cobra Creative produced a concept that follows the creation of a mobile phone—from design through manufacturing—to show how Inventor integrates each phase of the process into a seamless workflow. Along with creative direction and motion and sound design, we developed the framework and devised a localization solution allowing the titles to be translated easily into multiple languages.
Once your new blank part has opened your screen should look something like this.
There are 4 main areas to the screen. These are described in notes on the screen shot, move your mouse over the image to read more.
(Your colour scheme may be a little different. I've set mine up like this so you can see better what I'm doing. You can change yours too by going to Tools> Application Options> Colors)
To make the most of Inventor we need to change how we look at the drawing. If you press F6 on your keyboard you will be shown the rectangle in Isometric view. You can also do this by going to : View> Isometric View
In this example we are going from a shape to a form by extruding. This means taking the rectangle and stretching it through the 3rd dimension, think of it like squashing icing through a piping bag...
Click the Extrude tool in the Panel Bar, it is top left. Because we've only got one shape drawn Inventor assumes this is the shape to extrude and it gives us a preview like on my screen.
Later we will have to choose the 'Profile' ourselves. For now try out the different options on the Extrude menu, and see the next few screens for what you can change, but don't click OK yet!