You're reading from Autodesk Inventor 2023 Cookbook A guide to gaining advanced modeling and automation skills for design engineers through actionable recipes

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810500

Length 664 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Autodesk Inventor

Concepts

Computer Aided Design

Author (1):

Alexander Bordino

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Inventor Part Modeling – Sketch, Work Features, and Best Practices

2. Chapter 2: Advanced Design Methodologies and Strategies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Driving Automation and Parametric Modeling in Inventor

4. Chapter 4: Freeform, Surface Modeling, and Analysis

5. Chapter 5: Advanced CAD Management and Collaboration – Project Files, Templates, and Custom Properties

6. Chapter 6: Inventor Assembly Fundamentals – Constraints, Joints, and BOMS

7. Chapter 7: Model and Assembly Simplification with Simplify, Derive, and Model States

8. Chapter 8: Design Accelerators – Specialized Inventor Tool Sets for Frames, Shafts, and Bolted Connections

9. Chapter 9: Design Communication – Inventor Studio, Animation, Rendering, and Presentation Files

10. Chapter 10: Inventor iLogic Fundamentals — Creating Process Automation and Configurations

11. Chapter 11: Inventor Stress and Simulation – Workflow and Techniques

12. Chapter 12: Sheet Metal Design – Comprehensive Methodologies to Create Sheet Metal Products

13. Chapter 13: Inventor Professional 2023 – What’s New?

14. Index

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Creating solid geometry from basic extruded and lofted surfaces

With this recipe, you will complete the modeling of an EV charger using basic surface tools. You will learn how to create a basic extruded surface for use as a termination point for an extrude and how to create and apply a lofted surface, which transitions between two edges on different surfaces. The resultant surfaces will then be combined with a stitch operation and converted to solid geometry.

The completed model of the EV charger you will create is shown in Figure 4.17:

Figure 4.17: Completed EV charger model

Getting ready

You will need to access the EV Charger.ipt file in the EV Charger folder within the Chapter 4 folder.

How to do it…

The EV charger model is partially created and you do not have to build this from scratch. We will be applying surface modeling techniques to complete the model. To do this, let’s see the following: