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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 University Registration Now Open
August 17, 2005 10:23 AMbyThe AU website is now open for business! You can check out the agenda, register and sign up for courses all from this handy website. If you already know you are going it's a good idea to register early since classes fill up fast and so do some of the hotels. This year we are going to be at the Swan and Dolphin hotels at Walt Disney World.
See you there. Amy
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New Skillbuilders posted to Autodesk.com
August 15, 2005 11:07 AMbyIn the last month or so, two new skillbuilders have been posted to www.Autodesk.com. They will help you learn best practices in these two areas of AIP and AutoCAD M.
AIP: How to Position a Tee, Cross, or Relevant Fitting Accurately
- Use Autodesk Inventor Professional editing tools to make accurate adjustments on rigid route points for positioning fittings
AutoCAD Mechanical: Creating and Managing Positional Representations
- Use mechanical structure for positional representations in AutoCAD Mechanical
-Amy
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Summer Camp with Inventor
August 12, 2005 09:11 AMbyYou've got to start young to be a techno-wizard in the 21st century. Read how youngsters in Michigan are using Dynamic Designer and Inventor at a Virtual Simulation Summer Camp.
-Amy
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Two New Reviews on Inventor
August 11, 2005 10:54 AMbyInventor 10 has been out for a few months now and 2 new write ups have recently been posted.
Jeff Rowe (who also covered AutoCAD M) gave reports that "Autodesk Inventor has ascended the mechanical design ladder to hold its own with the competition." and gives it an overall rating of A-. Read his review here.
And from overseas, Al Deal posted his first of 2 articles on Inventor to MCAD online in the UK. This is an extremely thorough and lengthy review and it's only part 1! Read Al's review here.
Good reading. Amy
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The Virtues of AutoCAD Mechanical
August 10, 2005 09:30 AMbyIn a recent Cadalyst review, Jeff Rowe writes about the virtues of AutoCAD Mechanical for 2D mechanical design tasks.... Jeff writes " AutoCAD Mechanical is a specialized 2D application that sits on top of and is tightly integrated with AutoCAD. Look at the interface and you can tell immediately that they're obviously related, but also different, because Mechanical has toolbars and palettes specifically for mechanical design, such as standard parts libraries, mechanical line objects and simple FEA (finite-element analysis) calculations for 2D objects...." Read more ....
-Amy
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MDT to Inventor Migration
August 4, 2005 10:46 AMbyThis white paper is helpful if you need to move data from MDT to Inventor. Autodesk Inventor 10 software included some significant enhancements that simplify the migration of Autodesk Mechanical Desktop data sets. Mechanical Desktop models and drawings can be used as parts, assemblies, and drawings in Autodesk Inventor while maintaining their original design, constraints, and drawing relationships.
This white paper focuses on the best practices for reusing and maintaining original associative design relationships as Autodesk Mechanical Desktop data sets are migrated to Autodesk Inventor software. Download the PDF file here: Migrating_Autodesk_Mechanical_Desktop.pdf
-amy
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Inventor in India
August 4, 2005 10:33 AMby
Well I made it back from India safely. What a fun trip - I visited 9 customers in 3 days and managed to go to Bangalore, Puna, Delhi and Mumbai. Met with lots of really smart people doing cool things in Inventor and ate some fantastic Indian food. Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to do any sight seeing or to take many pictures. Here's one of an auto rickshaw - basically a cross between a taxi and a rickshaw - they are everywhere. I couldn't imagine driving in these cities since there are cars, three wheelers, two wheelers, bicycles and cows all sharing the same road.
-amy
