• Inventor

Inventor for Mechanical Design Professional Certification Prep

Outline
1

Getting started

Module overview
Course overview
Get the software
Course resources
2

About the certification

Module overview
Exam details
Sample test questions
Test taking tips
3

See where you stand

Module overview
Pre-test
4

Configuration and administration

Module overview
Configure project files
Configure document settings
Improve application options
Create and modify styles in documents
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module Quiz
5

Standard part modeling

Module overview
Describe the characteristics of models that fulfill design intent
Demonstrate the effective use of feature patterns on parts in assemblies
Identify advanced uses of work features
Identify scenarios in which to use Direct Edit
Create and modify complex sketches
Analyze the implications of adaptive parts
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
6

Advanced part modeling

Module overview
Create 3D sketches
Apply 3D features
Create and use multibody parts
Create and edit surfaces
Develop freeform models
Apply topology optimization principles
Practice exercise
Chellenge exercise
Module Quiz
7

Sheet metal

Module overview
Use the Sheet Metal environment to create features
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
8

Assembly modeling

Module overview
Modify the Bill of Materials in the BOM Editor
Import, link, and export files or point clouds
Describe and use simplify
Optimize component relationships in an assembly
Create and manage representations
Restructure components and views in the browser
Understand the key workflows for large assembly management
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
9

Weldments

Module overview
Create models and deliverables in the Weldment environment
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
10

Deliverables

Module overview
Use breakout and overlay views, and GD&T to create 2D documentation
Generate files and views for collaboration and digital fabrication
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
11

Design automation techniques

Module overview
Simplify workflow by using iParts, iFeatures, iMates, and iAssemblies
Use Frame Generator to create and edit frames
Describe the benefits of using Design Accelerators to create bolted connections
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
Module quiz
12

Course challenge

Module overview
Challenge exercise
13

Practice test

Module overview
Start your practice test
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Pre-test

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand. 

Keep track of your incorrect answers to know which skills you should study. You'll have a chance to take this same practice test again at the end of the course to see how you've improved.

Test

45 questions

1. Which tool is used to manually move, scale, and rotate freeform edges, faces and vertices?

Error: Select an answer

2. Refer to exhibits.




A mechanical designer needs to create the cut shown in exhibit 2.

What solid modeling feature should be used?

Error: Select an answer

3. Refer to the exhibits.



A mechanical designer has designed a part requiring gold plating. Which feature is added after the gold plating based on the Model State table?

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4. When a work feature such as an axis is created in-place during the creation of another work feature, how is it displayed in the Browser?

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5. A mechanical designer has created a complex automatic transmission assembly using beveled and straight cut gears.

The mechanical designer wants to avoid computations associated with enabling contact sets for all the gears.

Which option can be used to define how all gears move in relation to each other?

Error: Select an answer

6. A mechanical designer has inserted 4 bolts into an assembly using the Bolted Connection tool.

The mechanical designer needs to change the bolts from 3/8 to 1/2 for all instances after creation.

How can the bolts and associated holes be edited?

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7. Refer to exhibit.



A mechanical designer would like to move the instance 1515-3953 Box:1 out of the sub assembly - Assembly1:1.

Which command will perform this action?

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8. A mechanical designer has been provided a large assembly consisting of 10,000 components.Which option would be used to open the assembly, but not load all the components?

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9. Refer to exhibit.



Which Tolerance Method allows change to both the upper and lower limit independently shown in the exhibit?

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10. The color of the sheet can be changed after creation using which option?

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11. Refer to the exhibits.





A frame member was added to an assembly using a rectangular sketch as shown in exhibit 1.

Which Frame Member tool was used to treat the corners as shown in exhibit 2?

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12. Refer to exhibit.

Where can the Styles and Standard Library be changed from Read Only to Read-Write?

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13. Refer to exhibit.



The parameter 'Height' is selected as a Key parameter.What does this mean?

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14. Which weldment processing tool represents features performed after welding?

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15. What type of sketch geometry is ignored during 3D feature creation tools?

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16. A mechanical designer needs to create a parameter named WIDTH with a value of 145 while placing a dimension.

What would this expression look like?

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17. Refer to exhibit.



A mechanical designer wants to provide an Inventor drawing in DXF file format, which option must they select?

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18. A mechanical designer has an assembly that has a previously created pattern. 

How can this pattern be duplicated to match an existing pattern? What is required for feature pattern select to work?

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19. Which of the following is excluded in a DWF design file?

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20. Which can be found in Application Options? 

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21. Refer to exhibits.





A mechanical designer imported a CAD model containing a hole pattern shown in exhibit 1.

Which tool is needed to reposition the first hole as shown in exhibit 2?

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22. A mechanical designer has been given scan data from ReCap to use while designing around existing equipment in a large mechanical room.

Which data type is most likely used to represent the object that was scanned?

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23. Refer to exhibit.



A mechanical designer has created a pump assembly with an internal gear pair.

The assembly was set up with joints and constraints to replicate the motion of all components.

Which option used in the exhibit allows the gear on Drive_Shaft:1 to cause the gear on Drive_Shaft to move as intended?

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24. What allows an assembly constraint to change the size of features in components?

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25. A mechanical designer has created several view representations of an assembly to be used for documentation.

Several view representations have invisible components that are to be omitted from a Bill of Materials in the detailed drawing.

Which step is required to ensure invisible components do not participate in the Bill of Materials?

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26. Refer to exhibit.



A mechanical designer wants to only share the space an assembly takes up and approximate shape, while hiding any round edges and center design.

What selection in the Simplify command should be used?

Error: Select an answer

27. Refer to exhibit.



Which surface tool was used in the exhibit to convert multiple surface faces into a single solid body?