We have been slaving away at our little cottage this past year to bring you all new software. What awaits you in the next release of Inventor? Check out several interviews Mr. Cohee conducted concerning our 2012 lineup.
As many of you are probably aware, AU 2010 is upon us and many of us have been feverishly preparing classes and are looking forward to a great AU 2010. Monday has drawn to a close and many attendees have arrived, registered and will kick off AU 2010 with a bang first thing tomorrow morning.
Yesterday (Monday 11/29/2010) was full of press events and preparing for AU to get in full swing.
We are already seeing great news hitting the airways from the press events. DeelipManezes captured a few videos from the event including an new mobile game that will be released soon for the iPad, iPhone and iTouch. That's right, Autodesk is developing a new game for young Inventors. This app targets high school and college students as a fun way to learn more about physics and mechanical design. Check it out!
If you have subscription for any of these products, head on over the the Subscription site to download the desired Advantage Pack.
With the addition of the Inventor 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack, those of you on subscription will receive enhancements around ease-of-use tools, better data interoperability, expanded tools for building product fabricators, and an expanded tooling library.
Ease of Use
Dynamic Sectioning – Appearing as a top AUGI request, many of you have requested the ability to dynamically drag a section plane through models to better see internal detail.
Feature auto-name – By providing better naming of features in the browser, you can select and modify their designs easier.
Flexible drawing view orientation – You can now modify drawing views after they have been placed without the need to delete and re-creating the drawing view.
BIM Tools
If you design HVAC components and need to streamline AEC Exchange, now you can automate the creation of BIM content through the new AEC Exchange API. The Inventor 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack includes a rich API framework for AEC Exchange allowing the ability to build your own applications which can automate various tasks inside AEC Exchange.
Better Interoperability
With the Subscription Advantage Pack you will gain enhanced support for Rhino translators, 3D DWG™ in/out, iLogic Copy Design. This makes it much easier to open and save 3D DWG files as well as import Rhino files directly into Inventor. For those of you using iLogic, you will be able to copy your iLogic models as well as remove rules when passing sensitive data to your vendors.
Inventor Tooling Expanded Content
Gain access to more mold bases and components for AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite and AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite software
Additional inch/imperial mold bases and components from popular vendors
Expanded coverage of Meusburger mold bases and components
You know what they say...a picture is worth 1000 words.
A prototype of 3DA is now available for all users in all countries as the Autodesk labs application, 3D Annotation for Inventor.
What can 3DA do?
Some of you are exploring methods to streamline communication between Engineers and Drafters by adding important information ON THE 3D Model. 3D Annotation for Inventor gives you this ability in an Inventor environment!
This 3DA Prototype allows you to create and attach engineering annotations, such as dimensions, a variety of notes, datum identifiers, and feature control frames, (everything an Engineer might care about) to the Inventor model which are then displayed in the 3D graphics window.
For those of you using Inventor 2011, Service Pack 1 was released Friday (Aug. 27). Head over to our Services & Support page to download the Service Pack and read the Readme to see all the issues that have been addressed by this service pack.
Its always interesting to hear what people are saying about the latest versions of Inventor. As many of you are probably already aware, Inventor 2011 was released in March of this year and the guys over at DEVELOP3D recently released a review of Inventor 2011. If you are interested to hear what the digital and print editors of DEVELOP3D are saying about Inventor 2011 check out one of their latest posts concerning Inventor.
I know, I know...you are all probably all tired of hearing about the iPad and that it is coming out tomorrow (April 3). Normally I wouldn't post about an event like this although we are excited that we will have one of the first applications for the iPad at launch. We first put SketchBook Mobile on the iPhone and now introducing SketchBook Pro.
Key
Highlights Include:
Full-screen 1024 x
768 work space with support for any device orientation
An innovative
Multi-Touch interface
75 brushes with customizable
settings, including synthetic pressure sensitivity and brush modes for both freehand sketching and creating straight lines, ellipses and rectangle
Six
full-resolution layers per sketch with complete control over layer
order,
visibility and opacity
A
built-in, live news page that alerts artists to upcoming news, events,
featured
artists, etc.
For any of you that like to sketch and will be getting an iPad in the near future, take a look at our latest killer app!
Along with all of the other great news you are hearing around Inventor 2011, several of our manufacturing products are now included in the new Autodesk Wiki Help Beta. What does this mean? It means that you can now add your own information for all the world to see (or at least other Inventor users).
This is also Google/Bing search able so head on over to your favorite search engine to help locate items from the help system. One note - since this a new system, many of the Wiki results are lower in the page until people use it a little more.
Also one really cool item on the Inventor Wiki site is a new video added to help you learn about the new Direct Manipulation capabilities for Inventor 2011.
That's right, today Autodesk is launching our 2011 design software products including Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3ds Max and more.
So whats new you ask? Well here are just a few of the new enhancements in Inventor 2011.
Dramatic Ease of Use Improvements
Direct Manipulation with real-time previews
Dynamic Input for Sketching
New Assemble Tool
Design Automation / Design Efficiency
Integration of iLogic
Interoperable with Inventor Fusion
Many new drawing enhancements
Enhanced Visualization
Realistic rendering in the modeling environment
New display modes
Consistent materials when sharing models with Showcase, AutoCAD, Revit and 3ds Max
There is a whole lot more than this in Autodesk Inventor 2011 to take a look at the following PDF for a deeper dive.
For those of you that will be attending Autodesk University (AU) this year, the Inventor Product Management team will be hosting a listening session and need your feedback. This session will be held Monday Nov. 30 at 1:00 and we are looking for several more Inventor users to attend.
We will be selecting 15 individuals to present future concepts to and ask for your feedback to help guide the direction of future Inventor development. If you will be attending AU 2009 and will be in Las Vegas Nov 30, please create / update your profile on the Customer Feedback Portal and complete the short AU Listening Session survey.
To access the survey, click on the link below. If you have previously registered with the Autodesk Feedback Community, simply login using your username and password to be directed to the survey. If you have not already registered, you must first create a user account.