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Exploring major workflow steps

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Exploring major workflow steps

- When starting a new course on Autodesk Inventor, I find it very helpful to step back and provide everyone with an overview of what Autodesk Inventor does, and go over a few of the basic workflow steps, so everyone has a good understanding of why we're here, and where we're going. During this course, we will be working with a small engine that you might find in an RC boat. But to cover the basic workflow concepts, I like to fall back to the toys that allow me to do the things I do today, the trusty Lego. The reason for this, is nearly everyone on the planet will recognize what they are, and how they work, without too much explanation, and it allows me to easily explain the concepts. I see Legos as on of the most basic physical prototyping tools around. You have a bucket of standard parts, and you snap them together in different configurations to build anything you can dream of. Autodesk inventor is a digital prototyping tool that allows you to build parts, like a single Lego brick…

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