What is Inventor?
Inventor is software where you can design and shape anything you desire. It gives you many different tools to help you design your item as best as you can. You start by sketching out what you want to make and you can edit ow bog or small you want it. Then you can use a tool to extrude the item and see it when it is 3D and then you can cut into it or have something come out of the object. The possibilities of what you want your item to be or look like are endless.
Sketches for first two widgets
Widget 1 and 2
Step By Step "Recipe"
This is what I sketched for my widget then I added my dimensions to each line then I extruded it.
Then I extruded it and I was done.
The other five widgets I made in Inventor
This is my widget in the makerbot software
This is my widget printing in the 3D printer
This my finished widget
Final Summary
It was cool to learn Inventor because I never really knew anything about 3D printing or the software that is used to make things so it was cool to learn something new and especially something that interested me too. I think that I did good in Inventor designing my widgets but at the start it was pretty difficult because I didn't know where to start but once I figured out how to fix dimensions on the first widget and cut into the second widget it was pretty easy to do the rest of the widgets. Overall it was a good experience for me and I would like to do more in Inventor in the future.