help with inventor

[fedele14]

Good morning, I recently started using inventor and would like to ask you more experts where to find some guides especially for sheet metal.
I'll tell you what I have to do.
I should create a sheet shelf for a van, I managed until now to create the folded sheet metal side and then I got stuck. I can't understand how to go to create "in the side the shelves of this shelf, to assemble it and create the fixing holes of the screws.
I attach some photos to make the idea and have advice on how to proceed. Thank you.

 

[Yebisu]

I imagine you have created an ipt sheet file is the single element , to add other screw plates etc.. you have to create an iam file (insert into your sheet that you created and create new ones as you have already done) is practically a group of various ipts and or iams.

 

[fedele14]

Okay, but is there a way to get a drawer inside that side for example? draw it from there? or should I simply measure the side and adjust with the odds?

 

[Yebisu]

in the iam (assieme) you can project as references all edges/points as references of the various ipts.

 

[dodgers77]

If you want to work as a real designer you have to use a unique file as a model. for sheets you have to create an ipt of surfaces that has the exact shape of what you want to do and then create as many files as the parts of the shelf and derive the model in each one of them. from there create the sheet parts that will be connected to the model and changing that will change all parts automatically. try with something simple like a box with two parts so you know what to do and how to do. once you manage surfaces with a little imagination you can do everything in a simple way.

 

[fedele14]

But what is not clear to me is: I try to explain myself with an example.
If for example I create a sheet metal box, then a flat sheet with the 4 flangeed sides in the same direction. and then I want to create an additional sheet to divide this box in 2 parts, how do I proceed? Do I have to measure the inside of the box and create the partition sheet according to the measured measure or is there any method to give the size to the new sheet e.g. from the x side to the y side of the box?

 

[dodgers77]

But what is not clear to me is: I try to explain myself with an example.
If for example I create a sheet metal box, then a flat sheet with the 4 flangeed sides in the same direction. and then I want to create an additional sheet to divide this box in 2 parts, how do I proceed? Do I have to measure the inside of the box and create the partition sheet according to the measured measure or is there any method to give the size to the new sheet e.g. from the x side to the y side of the box?

look at this file to use as a basis to create the sheet of the box. consider that to do this you must have some knowledge of inventor, it is not that you turn on the machine and run, first at least you have to learn to change the marches and this is a basic file created with extrusions of surfaces instead of solids but always the extrusion command is.