Inventor Professional | Intermediate - Dynamic Simulation and Stress Analysis

Inventor Professional | Intermediate - Dynamic Simulation and Stress Analysis is an intensive two-day private course, delivered either virtually or in person, designed for experienced Inventor users. Led by a Certified Autodesk Instructor, this course equips participants with advanced skills in dynamic simulation and stress analysis, focusing on essential workflows in Inventor Professional.

Throughout the course, you will explore a range of advanced simulation topics, starting with the core principles of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), including linear static analysis, modal analysis, and dynamic simulation techniques. You will learn how to apply constraints, loads, and materials to both parts and assemblies, using tools like pressure, gravitational forces, moments, and rotational speed to create precise and realistic simulations. The curriculum delves into advanced workflows such as managing degrees of freedom and driving constraints, ensuring accurate control over component movements and interactions. You will gain hands-on experience with basic joint types, such as revolution, prismatic, and spherical joints, as well as more complex configurations like screws and worm gears to simulate mechanical operations. Additionally, you will explore frame analysis techniques, assessing structural integrity with solid and bar elements to ensure your designs meet load-bearing requirements. Practical exercises will guide you through resolving design redundancies, refining dynamic performance, and generating detailed simulation reports to inform design decisions. By developing proficiency in these workflows, you will enhance your ability to optimise designs, perform in-depth stress and deflection analysis, and ensure the structural robustness and operational reliability of your projects, from concept through to production.

Upon completing the course, you will have developed the essential skills needed to use dynamic simulation and stress analysis tools within Inventor Professional. You will gain confidence in solving complex engineering challenges, optimising designs for performance and reliability, and ensuring that your products are robust in real-world conditions. By applying these techniques, you will enhance overall design efficiency, reduce errors, and improve the performance of your assemblies.

During this course, you will explore the following topics:

• Module 1 – Simulation Types | FEA Principles: Explore the foundational principles of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), including linear static analysis, modal analysis, and dynamic simulation in Inventor Professional. Learn how to apply these concepts to your designs for improved accuracy and performance, allowing you to evaluate how designs will perform under various conditions. Understanding these principles will help you ensure your products meet structural and operational requirements.
• Module 2 – Simulation Workflow for Parts: Understand how to apply constraints, loads, materials, and contacts to parts within your simulations. This module covers essential elements such as pressure, gravitational forces, moments, rotational speed, and mesh convergence, guiding you through generating and interpreting FEA reports. These workflows will enable you to make informed design decisions and optimise part performance under stress.
• Module 3 – Simulation Workflow for Assemblies: Delve into assembly simulations, focusing on managing degrees of freedom, bonded contacts, sliding contacts, and parametric analysis. Learn how to simulate complex assemblies and evaluate their behaviour under real-world conditions, ensuring that interactions between parts are accurately represented. This knowledge will allow you to simulate how multiple components interact and how their performance can be optimised.
• Module 4 – Frame Analysis: Explore frame analysis techniques, including the use of solid and bar element types. Learn how to apply loads and constraints to frames, and generate detailed reports for engineering analysis. This module will help you improve the structural integrity of frames and ensure that designs can support the necessary loads without failure.
• Module 5 – Dynamic Simulation: Gain proficiency in dynamic simulation principles, including constraint conversion and managing degrees of freedom. Understand how to resolve redundancies in your designs, improving their dynamic performance and ensuring smooth operation under various conditions. By mastering these skills, you will enhance the reliability and functionality of your designs.
• Module 6 – Driving Constraints: Explore how to apply and manage driving constraints such as loads, induced motion, friction, and unknown forces. Learn how to calculate motion loads, utilise motion tables, trace motion paths, and export simulation data for further analysis, helping you simulate complex movement scenarios. These skills will allow you to simulate realistic movements and ensure that mechanisms perform as intended.
• Module 7 – Basic Joint Types: Learn how to use basic joint types such as revolution, prismatic, cylindrical, spherical, and planar joints to simulate the motion of mechanisms and assemblies in dynamic simulations. Understanding these joint types will help you create accurate simulations of mechanical movement and identify areas where designs can be improved for better performance.
• Module 8 – Complex Joint Types: Explore advanced joint configurations such as screw, worm gear, belt, and point-on-curve joints. Understand how to incorporate these into your dynamic simulations for more precise modelling of complex mechanical systems. Mastering these joint types will allow you to simulate intricate mechanical operations and ensure that your designs function as intended in real-world scenarios.

Before the course, you will receive a Course Pack containing training notes and/or files that need to be downloaded prior to joining the training.

ARKANCE, an Authorized Autodesk Training Center, delivers high-quality training for Autodesk software users. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an official ARKANCE Certificate of Completion, demonstrating their commitment to ongoing professional development.

Additionally, participants are encouraged to register their attendance with Autodesk Education to receive a Certificate of Completion from Autodesk. To obtain this certificate, participants must follow the steps provided in the confirmation email sent after registration and submit a post-training feedback survey within 60 days of completing the course.

To join the course, participants must be confident in their use of Inventor Professional. It is recommended that individuals have a thorough understanding of all topics covered in the Essentials course, along with at least six months of regular usage of Inventor Professional on projects. This foundational knowledge ensures full engagement with the intermediate concepts and techniques presented in the course.

Our private training sessions are offered at a flat rate per course and accommodate up to eight participants. Delivered on request, these courses can be conducted virtually or on-site at your venue.

The training can follow a standard agenda or be customised to align with your team’s specific workflows, existing templates, and project requirements. Please note that in-person training will incur additional travel costs, and pricing may vary for customised curriculums.

Please contact us to discuss organising this training for your team.

Participants joining this course virtually will need:

• Inventor Professional ‘24 installed on their computer (required). Please contact us if you need to purchase a software licence.
• The latest Zoom version installed on their computer (required).
• A stable internet connection with a minimum download speed of 10 Mbps (required).
• A secondary screen to follow instructions shared by the course instructor during training, along with a mouse for easy software navigation (recommended).
• A headset to ensure clear communication with the instructor, and preferably a microphone and webcam for interactive conversations (recommended).

Participants joining this course in person will need:

• Inventor Professional ‘24 installed on their computer (required). Please contact us if you need to purchase a software licence.
• A large computer screen, along with a keyboard and mouse for easy software navigation (recommended).

Additionally, the training venue should be equipped with:

• A projector setup or a large screen enabling the instructor to connect their laptop, facilitating attendee visibility of the instructor's screen (required).