MA35-2: Step on the Accelerator in Autodesk Inventor®!

Instructor: Bill Fane - British Columbia Institute of Technology

Class Description: The Inventor Content Center comes with a huge collection of stock components such as bearings, bolts, bushings, and so on, that can greatly speed up the design process Question is: Do you still need to calculate the sizes of components you need? The Design Accelerator of Release 10 speeds up this process, while the new capabilities in Release 11 take another giant leap With the latest Design Accelerator, the design process now becomes performance driven You no longer need your engineering handbook to find the correct formula, then calculate the required sizes, then model the parts and assemble them Instead, you now simply enter the performance specifications and the Design Accelerator does the rest For example, you can design a V-belt drive simply by entering the input power and speed, the ratio, the loading factor, and the center-to-center distance The Design Accelerator automatically calculates the sheave sizes and belt quantity It then selects the commercial stock sizes and lengths that come closest to meeting your specifications and adjusts the center distance accordingly before inserting the models directly into your assembly Of course, if you change anything then everything updates We’ve come a long way from computer-aided drafting!