The Autodesk® Inventor® program was introduced in 1999 as an ambitious 3D parametric modeler

based not on the familiar Autodesk® AutoCAD® software programming architecture but

instead on a separate foundation that would provide the room needed to grow into the fully

featured modeler it is now, more than a decade later. Autodesk Inventor 2015 continues the

development of Autodesk Inventor with improved modeling, drawing, assembly, and visualization

tools. Autodesk has set out to improve this release of Autodesk Inventor by devoting as

much time and energy to improving existing tools and features as it has to adding new ones.

With this book, the sixth edition of Mastering Autodesk® Inventor® 2015 and Autodesk® Inventor

LT™ 2015, I have set out to update the existing pages and add new content and exercises. In

these pages, you will fi nd detailed information on the specifi cs of the tools and the principles of

sound parametric design techniques. Some readers will fi nd this book works best for them as a

desktop reference, whereas others will use it primarily for the step-by-step tutorials. With this in

mind, I’ve worked to shape the pages of this book with a mix of reference material, instructional

steps, and tips and hints from the real world.