Introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD) 4th November 2025

This hands-on course will focus on Autodesk Inventor, a leading CAD software, ensuring you gain foundational skills for professional design work.

This course will take place on 4 November and 11 November.

Day 1: Autodesk Inventor Essentials

• Opening and setting up projects
• Creating a model and selecting sketch planes
• 2D sketching with tools like lines, circles, arcs, rectangles, and construction lines
• Basic 3D modelling using extrusions, revolves, sweeps, lofts, coils, holes, fillets, chamfers, shells, and threads
• Understanding planes and axes
• Orienting and refining a model for clarity and precision

Day 2: Advanced CAD Techniques

• Assemblies: placing parts, constraints, patterns
• Sheet Metal: defaults, flanges, bends, folds, and flat patterns
• Frame Generator: building structural frames
• CAD: creating a box section frame and machining programs
• Technical Drawings: adding views, dimensions, tolerances, hole tables, and revision boxes

Venue: 2 full day workshops held at SBC Training in Shrewsbury