Use the robot tutorial to brush up and/or learn some useful features in Autodesk Inventor that will help you throughout the rest of the course.  You are encouraged to reference back to this tutorial if you forget how to use a particular tool or feature.

• Start a 2D sketch and select the XZ plane

• Select the rectangle tool and draw a 1"x1" square

• Finish the sketch

• Use the extrude tool to extrude the square 1"

• Start a 2D sketch on the front face of your robot head

• Select the circle tool and draw a .25" circle

• Use the dimension tool to dimension the circle center .25" from the top and left side of the head

• Use the offset tool to copy the circle .05" larger than the original

• Use the line tool to draw a vertical line that is .5" from the left and right side of the head

• Use the mirror tool to reflect your eye circles over the line you drew 

• Extrude the eye sockets .1"

• Star a 2D sketch inside your eye sockets on the face of the robot

• Use the polygon tool to draw a hexagon for your eyeball

• We will be using the mirror tool just like we did in step 3, remember to draw your mirror line

• Extrude your eyeballs and add a -30 degree taper your your eyeballs

• Start a 2D sketch on the face

• Use the rectangle tool and dimension tool to draw the mouth as shown in the video

• Use the 2D fillet tool to round over the corners of your mouth (.125" radius)

• Use the offset tool to copy your shape and make it .05" smaller than your original

• Extrude your lips .05"

• Use the 3D fillet tool to round over the inside and outside edge of your lips (.025" radius)

• Start a 2D sketch inside the mouth

• Use a rectangle tool to draw a .05" wide rectangle on the left edge of the mouth (see video)

• Use the rectangular pattern tool to copy the rectangle across the mouth

  • • Select the geometry you want to copy

    • Select the direction

    • Set how many copies you want to make and the distance between copies

• Use the project geometry tool to copy the shape of the inside of the mouth

• Extrude every other tooth inside the mouth

• Start a 2D sketch on the top of the eye sockets

• Use project geometry to trace the eye socket

• Use the polygon tool to draw a rectangle on the top center of the eye socket

• Use the circular pattern tool to create 8 copies of the hexagon around the eye socket

  • • Select the geometry you want to copy

    • Select the axis you want to rotate around

    • Set how many copies you want to make

• Use the mirror tool to reflect the hexagons onto the other eye socket (remember the mirror line)

• Extrude the hexagons to .01"

• Start a 2D sketch on the top of the robot head

• Find the center of the top of the head by drawing two diagonal lines from opposite corners

• Use the two point center rectangle tool to draw a .25"x.25" square in the middle of the head

• Use the 2D chamfer tool to add a .05" chamfer to all corners of the square

• Extrude .05"

• Use the 3D chamfer tool to add a .025" chamfer to all the top edges of the antenna base

• Use project geometry to trace the antenna base, then offset that shape .075" smaller

• Extrude the square .5"

• Start a sketch on the top of the antenna

• Draw a half-moon shape using a line and the arc tool (watch video closely)

• Finish the sketch and use the revolve tool to revolve the half-moon shape around the center axis

• Start a 2D sketch on the side of the robot head

• Use the ellipse tool to draw a vertical oval on the side of the head

• Use the line tool to draw a vertical line that cuts the oval in half

• Use the trim tool to get rid of one half of the oval giving us that half-moon shape again

• Finish the sketch and use the revolve tool to get a rounded ear

• Start a sketch on the opposite side of the head and use project geometry to trace the ellipse from the other side of the head

• Repeat the revolve process you did earlier in this step

• Start a 2D sketch on the bottom of the head

• Use project geometry on the bottom of the head and create an offset .1" smaller than the head

• Extrude .1"

• Start a 2D sketch on the bottom of the neck

• Use the rectangle and dimension tools to draw and edit the body shape (copy video dimensions)

• Extrude the body 1.75"

• Open the midplane between two planes tool and select the front and back of the body

• Start a new 2D sketch on the orange work plane that appears

• Use the arc and line tools to create the pathway of your arm

• Use the mirror tool to copy the same pathway to the other side of your robot

• Start a new 2D sketch on the side of your robot and draw a circle at the top of the pathway

• Finish sketch and use the sweep tool to sweep the circle along the pathway you drew

• Repeat this for the other arm (you will need to turn on your sketch visibility - see video) 

• Turn the visibility of the midplane work plane you created for the arms

• Start a 2D sketch on the work plane

• Draw two circles for the claw shape (watch video closely for this step)

• Draw a 2 point center rectangle

• Use the extrude tool with the symmetric feature and cut feature selected to cut part of the arm

• Turn on the visibility of the previous sketch within the extrusion

• Use the extrude tool with the symmetric feature to add the claw

• Use the coil tool to create a spring on the bottom of your robot

• You will need to bring the work plan back and sketch a line and a circle before using the coil tool

You do NOT need to follow this tutorial click for click.

• Customize the body of your robot using the tools you have learned throughout this tutorial

• Push yourself, ask for help!

• Color your robot by selecting features and utilizing the color wheel

• Save & follow submission instructions