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Autodesk Inventor

Last updated 2 years ago

Autodesk Inventor is the most widely use software for CAD due to its complexity allowing more intricate designs while also being simple and easy to navigate and use. Moreover its free for students, making it more accessible compare to platforms such as SolidWorks or OnShape.

Here is a tutorial on how to activate the Student License for Autodesk (to come).

Parts

The VEX CAD Community has compiled a that can be readily used with Inventor.

It is recommended to structure everything inside 1 folder to keep your CAD's organized as some versions of the library are not cross-compatible and file issues can occure when saving within Inventor.

- CAD Folder
    - Inventor Lib Version X.X
        - Parts X.X
        - Robot 1
        - Robot 2...
    - Inventor Lib Version Y.Y
        - Parts Y.Y
        - Robot 1
        - Robot 2...
library of parts