The sheet-metal environment was introduced in Inventor 2.

Understand the tools available to annotate your sheet-metal design.

Model sheet-metal components with non-sheet-metal features.

Understand the nuances of sheet-metal iPart factories.

Utilize the flat pattern information and options.

Understand sheet-metal templates and rules.

Take advantage of the specific sheet-metal features available in Inventor.

The Autodesk ® Inventor LT ™ program does not include the sheet-metal tools discussed in this chapter.

However, a mastery of some basic fundamentals in sheet-metal tools can make Inventor sheet metal straightforward and highly integrated with your manufacturing environment. When you first begin working in the sheet-metal environment, you may feel overwhelmed because the tools and methods you have become familiar with to create other parts in Inventor do not yield good results in the sheet-metal file. The sheet-metal functionality in the Autodesk ® Inventor ® program is an extremely powerful toolset, centered on productivity and capturing your manufacturing intent.

Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2015 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 (2014) Chapter 6.

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