Inventor for Mechanical Design Professional Certification Prep
The Autodesk Certified Professional in Inventor for Mechanical Design certification exam is the industry standard for evaluating your proficiency in Inventor for mechanical design. Earning this certification demonstrates your validated skills and boosts your confidence, making you a more attractive candidate to potential employers. Follow along with lessons, datasets, and exercises to practice and review the exam topics on your own. You can also test your knowledge by taking a practice test to prepare for the certification exam. It’s all about practice and preparation.
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Recognize tools covered by the Autodesk Certified Professional exam.
- See and explore modeling workflows that you might not currently use.
- Work through challenges that will give you hands-on experience with advanced tools in Inventor.
This course was authored using Inventor 2025. The Inventor dataset have been saved in Inventor 2023 to offer compatibililty for users of Inventor 2023, 2024 and 2025. Before you move forward with the course, download the course resources and watch the short video on setting up Inventor project files.
Course modules
Discover what you'll learn in this course and download the software and resources you need.
Learn about the exam.
Test your skills.
Explore best practices for sheet metal parts and weldments, the part or assembly pattern tool, assembly components, and the modifying assemblies in Autodesk Inventor.
Learn about drawing views, annotate drawings, and using view and inspect tabs for parts and assemblies.
Learn about the required supporting knowledge for generative designs.
Learn about the required supporting knowledge for generative designs.
Take the challenge exercise to measure your skills on the topics covered in this course.
Test your skills.
Instructor resources
Teaching this course to students in the classroom?
Use the instructor guide and additional resources to incorporate this course into your lesson plans. You can also send your students directly to the course as self-guided learning. They can learn at their own pace, track their own progress, and earn a certificate of completion when they get 75% or more on the final test.
Want to create custom learning playlists to share with your students?
Share modules and courses using Lists. Once you create a List, share the URL with your students and they can sign into their Autodesk Account to access.
- To create a List, select [+] 'Add to list' in the banner of a course or module.
- To share a list with others, set the list visibility to Public and share the link.
Announcements
This course was updated in September 2024 for candidates who are preparing for the Autodesk Certified Professional in Inventor for Mechanical Design exam (November 1, 2024 and beyond).
Updates include:
- New videos aligning to the new exam objectives.
- Updated practice and challenge exercises.
- New instructor guide to help educators and instructors teach this content in classroom.
- New practice test aligned to the certification exam objectives.
