Introduction to Drafting and Autodesk Inventor

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Accessibility of This Textbook

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Known Accessibility Issues and Areas for Improvement

The book relies heavily on screenshots from the Autodesk software. These screenshots do not have alt text. While many of the screenshots are described in the surrounding text, the book has not been reviewed to ensure that the surrounding text is an adequate alternative for all images in the book.

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Autodesk Inventor Software Required

Introduction to Drafting and Autodesk Inventor was written to be used with Autodesk Inventor Version 2020 and 2021. You must have access to one of these software packages to complete the lab exercises in this book. It can also be used with Inventor 2015 through to 2019, but the interface structure was different and will take a little more poking around to find things.

About the Book

Philosophy of the Inventor book

This book contains self-paced learning modules that were written as a tool to guide and teach you to master Inventor. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore, the modules were written as competency-based bite-size pieces to allow you to work at your own pace. They can be used in correspondence courses, online courses, instructor-lead classes or by individuals teaching themselves to use Inventor in their own home or office.