Autodesk Inventor 2022: Sheet Metal Design (Mixed Units): Autodesk Authorized Publisher

The Autodesk® Inventor® 2022: Sheet Metal Design guide introduces the concepts and techniques of sheet metal modeling with the Autodesk Inventor software.

The structure of the guide follows the typical stages of using the Autodesk Inventor software. That is, to create and edit sheet metal parts, generate flat patterns, and document the designs in drawings.

Topics Covered

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

Prerequisites

Access to the 2022.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide are not compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2021).

The material covered in this training guide assumes a mastery of Autodesk Inventor basics as taught in Autodesk Inventor: Introduction to Solid Modeling.

Knowledge of sheet metal processing is an asset, but not required.