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Inventor user interface review

Inventor user interface review - Inventor Tutorial

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Inventor user interface review

- Before we jump in to drawing our first model, let's stroll through the Inventor user interface and take a look at a couple of key software functions. The application menu button is in your upper lefthand corner, and this allows your access to all the general functions of the software. This includes the application options menu, which we will touch on soon. Moving clockwise, you'll see the quick access toolbar. This includes the most common tools that you use, such as save, new, open, undo, and redo, and it also includes your ability to change the part materials, which is often done in both part modeling and assembly modeling environments. Looking across your screen, you'll see a series of tabs. The tabs unfold to ribbons, and you'll see panels, also, which group like commands together. Next is our view cube, and this is going to help us rotate and navigate in our modeling space. And you'll notice as I click onto each of these corners it rotates the model. I can also click on the…

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