This Inventor tutorial requires Autodesk Inventor 2010 or later as it is based on a multi solid part. It is geared towards the beginner that wants to get up to speed quickly, or a more experienced user who may be looking to learn new techniques.
The iDoor tutorial will serve as the anchor tutorial for several more Inventor tutorials that will each add functionality to the base design, and possibly a few prequel tutorials to explain in more detail any parts of the tutorial that are harder to grasp.
As is, a door like this can be published to Content Center, and numerous copies can be placed into an assembly (as many as you wish). All of the placed doors are then easily sized to the openings present, and at the proper time, all of the correctly sized parts can be created. A massively easier solution than in previous versions of Inventor. There can be as many parts per door as the design calls for, and even the most complex design can be accommodated via the robust skeletal framework.
Some of the features of the tutorial;
- If you hover your cursor over Green Text
you will get a little pop-up showing what a command or panel looks like. The Opera browser does not do this well, as the pop-ups appear far too high above the link. - Introduces skeletal modeling techniques.
- Most images are linked to a full sized representation, just click the image to enlarge.
- Orange Text are back links to relevant instruction. The link will open in a new window so you don’t loose your place in a long tutorial such as this. These will be added on an on-going basis.
- The combo linkbox at the bottom of each page will take you to any page in the tutorial, and also has a forward and back arrow for in-line navigation (see bottom of this page).
- A video, and animated image.
- DWF version of the completed door for download.
If you don’t own a copy of Inventor 2010, you can download a free 30 day trial. There is also a LT version of Inventor, but I’m not sure if it has the functionality to complete this tutorial. I know for sure that it cannot perform the next phase of the tutorial –producing the door assemblies.
Feel free to contact me via the email link at the bottom of every page if you have questions or to report typos, unclear instruction, or ideas for improvement.
Page 1 of the Inventor tutorial
PS – This door took about 1/2 hour to design as-is, and would take several more days to configure into a model that could represent any door in a custom cabinet shop. The same thing can be done for the cabinets as well, and I will post a tutorial for that as well. The image below shows three iDoors inserted into an assembly with the Place 
tool. They were then converted to assemblies containing correctly sized parts. Drawings could be automated from here, or output generated for CNC equipment. More on the last page of this Inventor tutorial…
Inventor Tutorial for the iDoor Navigation
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Hello Mark!
i like your tutorials, very nice!
I have a question…maybe you can help me! I made a door like yours but with iparts and i made an assembly and i wonder how can i use this door as a assembly in other assembly in order to change the dimension having 2 or 3 different measures in one assembly (i just can't…i wonder if i can do it like i do with iparts) i made iassembly but it's changing every door in one dimension! how can i do?
if you have time please reply! thank you
Hi Nick,
I don’t like iParts, and haven’t used them in ages, but I’ll try to help. Did you place multiple instances of one (member) door? Or separate doors (members) from the same iPart factory? If you placed multiple instances of the same member, they will forever be the same (I think). If they need to be different, use different members that represent those differences. It is not one size fits all.
Hope this helped,
Mark