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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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Autodesk Subscription Advantage Pack for Inventor 2010 is here!
October 16, 2009 12:18 PMby Garin Gardiner
The Autodesk Subscription Advantage Pack for Inventor® 2010 is now available in English with more languages to follow shortly. This set of enhancements offer new productivity tools, improved support for architectural fabrication, and easier-to-use simulation capabilities.
New and improved tools simplify common tasks, such as dimensioning, inserting blocks, and multi-view creation, helping to boost everyday productivity. With more architecturally relevant content, annotations, and drawing options for designing architectural elements, Subscription customers can more easily share designs and documentation with clients and suppliers in the architectural, engineering, and construction industries.
In addition, the powerful simulation tools in Autodesk® Inventor® software have been enhanced to make it easier for users create and validate multiple design iterations. Simulation scenario setups have been streamlined, and the visual feedback and simulation results are now clearer and more customizable.
If you have an active subscription account, head over to the Subscription Center and pull down the Advantage Pack for Inventor 2010.
To see it in action, check out the YouTube video of our own infomercial king (Rob Cohee).
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What would you like to tell us?
October 12, 2009 02:32 PMby Garin Gardiner
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.
https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/apply.html?callid={C5E83117-6722-4C12-A737-411CA3958F95}
I hope to see you there!
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Autodesk Expands Options for Mac Users
October 6, 2009 02:33 PMby Garin Gardiner
For all of you Mac users out there, Autodesk recently announced we will now support use of AutoCAD software, AutoCAD LT software, Autodesk Inventor Professional software, Autodesk 3ds Max software, Autodesk 3ds Max Design software and the Autodesk Revit software platform for building information modeling (BIM) on Mac OS X via Parallels Desktop. Autodesk added official support for these products on the Mac via Boot Camp earlier this year.
Head on over to the press release for more information.
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SketchBook Mobile from Autodesk
September 16, 2009 11:33 PMby Garin Gardiner
Today the Industrial Design (ID) team announced a new SketchBook Mobile app that is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you are the proud owner of an iPhone or Touch, this will be a must have for its impressive sketch tools. This is a professional-grade paint and drawing application for a killer price of 2.99 on the iTunes Store. I personally have been looking forward to something like this on my Touch for some time and will be downloading it as soon as it goes live. If you are interested, take a look at a few of these images and YouTube video then head on over and try it out.
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What Would You Invent?
August 20, 2009 01:58 AMby Garin GardinerIt's National Inventor's month, what would you invent?
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Intermittent crashes in Inventor while using a 3DConnexion space mouse
August 10, 2009 11:06 AMby Garin Gardiner
I know a lot of you are using a 3DConnextion device with Inventor as do I. If any of you are encountering a crash in Inventor 2010 after you have been using Inventor for 10 - 20 minutes and move your mouse over the Ribbon UI, it is likely you need to update your 3DConnexion driver to fix the issue. This issue is caused by a leaked timer resource in the 3DConnexion driver and has been fixed in their latest driver.
http://3dconnexion.com/support/downloads.php
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Is that real?
August 6, 2009 02:59 PMby Garin Gardiner
I am a sucker for rendered images (especially if they are from Inventor) and wanted to share some great rendered images from Inventor as well as other Autodesk products like Showcase (even thought Showcase is real-time). Inventor is a much more powerful rendering tool than most people realize so I wanted to share an image from a Flickr page. The next time you want a nice image of a 3D model, head over to Inventor Studio (It comes with Inventor) and play around a bit.
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Autodesk Producs on the Mac
July 20, 2009 06:59 PMby Garin Gardiner
Great news today for all of you that are interested in using Autodesk products on a Mac. Autodesk is adding official support for Apple Boot Camp, a component of the Mac OSX operating system that enables you to run Windows on Apple Hardware for several Autodesk products. Autodesk also has several products that run nativly on the Mac.
Mac Compatible Products - Autodesk Alias Design
- Autodesk Alias Surface
- Autodesk Cleaner
- Autodesk Combustion
- Autodesk FBX
- Autodesk Image Modeler
- Autodesk Maya
- Autodesk SketchBook Pro
- Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited
- Autodesk Mubbox
Boot-Camp Supported Products - AutoCAD
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk 3ds Max Design
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Revit Architecture
- Autodesk Revit Structure
- Autodesk Revit MEP
Head on over to http://www.autodesk.com/mac for more information!0 Comment | Add CommentIn In the Machine > Autodesk Inventor, News
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Fusion is Alive!
June 24, 2009 11:12 PMby Garin GardinerToday Inventor Fusion was announced and available for download on Autodesk Labs. Many of you have been following Inventor Fusion and have asked when you could get your hands on it. Well the time is now and we are excited to hear from you once you get a chance to drive it around the block.
For those of you that aren't familiar with Inventor Fusion, it is technology to showcase our direct model manipulation that allows you to easily create and edit 3D models. You can directly model components in Inventor Fusion or import models to be able to directly modify them. It is definitely work a look so head on over to Autodesk Labs to give it a try.
Take a look what others are saying.
Kenneth Wong at Desktop Engineering
What are you waiting for - you could be modeling already!
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Autodesk YouTube Channel
June 24, 2009 01:51 PMby Garin GardinerAutodesk recently added a channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/autodesk that is has many clips ranging from Inventor, Moldflow, Showcase and more. Head on over and check it out.
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