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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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Inspired by MechSoft
April 29, 2004 08:04 AMbyEveryone, As I was navigating through Shaan's history of posts, I stumbled on our MechSoft announcement and wanted to post it in this new section, under Inventor. http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2004/02/autodesk_to_acq.html I've been working with MechSoft since long before joining Autodesk. I've worked with a lot of companies where MechSoft simply made sense and was something they just couldn't pass up because of the productivity gains. Last October, I was part of the due-diligence team who spent time in Decin, Czech Republic to get to know the vision, energy and know-how of the team (Michal, Mila and Vaclav at the development helm) behind the product. The technology is smart and powerful, but best of all, the team in Decin has joined our ranks and we are working together to realize the vision (Functional Design) within one package, our core Inventor Series. Even though winter was beginning, the scenery around Decin and especially Prague was wonderful. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures. Hopefully Pete will take a few on his trip next month that we can share. I am a Design Engineer at heart and I want to work from the functional side of my design first and foremost emphasizing on the problem my design is meant to solve. The use of lines, arcs, circles, constraints and more are tools of the technology, but my design is more about optimizing functional requirements to get the job done and that is just how MechSoft works. If I seem passionate on this one, it is because I am. I've read your posts on the Discussion Groups and I think you will see lots of benefit from MechSoft as we integrate this functionality in the Inventor Series with future releases. Best Regards, -Andy
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Autodesk Inventor Beta Opportunity
April 29, 2004 05:03 AMbyIf you are interested in enrolling to be considered for the next Autodesk Inventor eBeta, enrollment is now available. All participants who are accepted into the program will be contacted via email with instructions on how to download the Beta version once it becomes available. Please fill out the registration page with your contact information.
Please use your business email and information to participate.
Please do not use free email accounts such as hotmail.com or yahoo.com as that can disqualify your participation in the beta program.
Failure to enter the below listed code exactly on the enrollment process may prevent your account from being approved.
Enrollment Opened 04/28/04
Click Here To Enroll
Code: CROSSFIRE
-jeff
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Structural Design Tool
April 28, 2004 02:46 PMbyEveryone,
I wanted to share this great looking tool (Vectrasteel) coming out for Inventor. I saw a demonstration several weeks ago and downloaded the evaluation and I am impressed. In fact, the demonstration was to a large structural firm who designs and details Olympic facility caliber structures and they were more than pleased.
They have posted AVI demonstrations on their website at http://www.vectrasys.com/
-Andy
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Links to cool Inventor Resources
April 28, 2004 01:17 PMbyThanks to everyone for the encouraging emails and suggestions. Sean Dotson was kind enough to point out an oversight on our part by not incuding the following resources. Check out these websites for parts, tips, tricks and more goodies.
Drew Fulford's MyMCad.com
http://www.mymcad.com
Sean Dotson's Inventor Tutorials & More
http://www.sdotson.com
Sean Dotson's MCAD Discussion Forums
http://www.sdotson.com/forums/
Charles Bliss' iParts and iCode Repository
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor
Kent Keller's iParts and iCode Site
http://www.kwikmcad.com/
Patrick de Stobbeleir's Inventor Tool Site
http://hjem.get2net.dk/opad/
If you know of any other good Inventor links, let us know and we will spread the word.
Amy
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Welcome !!!
April 26, 2004 10:41 PMbyWelcome to "In the Machine", the official Autodesk Inventor blog. This blog is a place for the Inventor Product Managers to post useful or interesting information about Inventor and related topics. At least we hope the posts will be useful and interesting and are confident you'll give us some guidance if they are not. Please note that this blog is not intended to replace the newsgroups and is not for technical support.
We come from varied backgrounds and you can learn more about us here. We'll each be posting as we come across items we think you might find interesting. If you have a topic you'd like us to discuss, an interesting link you think we should promote or any feedback on this blog please feel free email us here. If you have a tip, trick, tutorial or other tidbit you'd like to see posted to the blog please send it to us here.
Be sure to visit the companion blogs for AutoCAD hosted by Shaan Hurley @ http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/ and for ADT hosted by Chris Yancher @ http://blogs.autodesk.com/adt
Never heard of a Blog? Visit the following link for more info:
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2003/09/what_is_a_blog.html
Thanks and regards -
Amy Bunszel, on behalf of the rest of the Inventor team:
Pete Lord, Peter Adams, Andy Palioca, Jeff Wymer