Inventor Series 11

Autodesk Inventor : What’s New

Weldments

With a built-in environment for designing weldments, it's easy to model welds in 3D and improve quality by simulating weld preparation, welding, and postweld operations. Classify and model fillet, gap, and groove weld beads as 3D solids. Automatically create 3D annotation based on industry or company standards, and automatically generate associative 2D weld symbols for documentation. Weldment analysis and reporting capabilities include bead volume reporting and comprehensive interference detection of all solid weld bead types.

Bill of Materials

Minimize errors and save time by automatically generating and maintaining a consistent bill of materials (BOM) across assemblies, drawings, and presentations. The BOM functionality provides a single source for managing the assembly and subassembly structure of purchased and nonpurchased parts. Edit all BOM properties through a familiar, table-driven interface that allows virtual components to represent unmodeled components (grease, paint, and so forth).

Streamlined Placement of Holes

Improve productivity by automatically creating holes, hole notes, and hole tables that update automatically with changes. Streamline the placement of holes, independent of the sketch, using a linear (place by two edges) or concentric method and define hole parameters based on standard fasteners.

>Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical Interoperability

Get your products to market faster and with fewer errors using associative 2D and 3D collaboration between Autodesk Inventor® and AutoCAD® Mechanical software. Just open AutoCAD Mechanical and browse through your current Autodesk Inventor files, choose a part or assembly file, and AutoCAD Mechanical creates a new linked drawing. When the design changes in Autodesk Inventor, the AutoCAD Mechanical drawing automatically updates.

Engineer's Handbook

Design Accelerators

Move beyond sketching and constraints and accelerate design by working with parts that are based on mechanical relationships, rather than geometric descriptions. Use the engineer's handbook, mechanical calculators, and component generators, all part of the new design accelerator, to automate the process of creating parts and assemblies that are based on real-world attributes, such as speed, power, and material properties.

With engineering theory, formulas, and algorithms at your fingertips, you dramatically reduce time spent on engineering research. This comprehensive online reference and manufacturing knowledge base is easily accessible from anywhere in the Autodesk Inventor application.

Mechanical Calculators

Component Generators

Avoid costly rework and improve design efficiency with easy-to-use online engineering guidance and analysis tools. A comprehensive set of engineering calculators builds on standard mathematical formulas and physical theories used in both design and validation of mechanical systems. Learn more.

Rapidly design, analyze, and create commonly used machine components based on functional requirements and specifications. Now you can create parts and assemblies based on real-world attributes and use conditions such as power, speed, torque, material properties, working temperatures, and lubrication conditions. Learn more.

Feature Generator

Drag-and-drop shape libraries accelerate the transition to 3D modeling by making it easy and fast to create and edit parts. Use the feature generator to create fully editable Autodesk Inventor parts by simply dragging shapes from a library of standard geometry.

Reuse AutoCAD Drawing Templates

Speed the transition from 2D to 3D by using your AutoCAD® design templates, including layers, title blocks, and standards information.

Associative Parts List

Automatic Drawing Views

3D Grips

Grip editing is a fast and flexible way to edit parametric parts. New 3D grips speed design change with intuitive sketch and model editing. Just select a grip and drag.

Generate and update an accurate parts list in a fraction of the time required by traditional 2D methods—virtually eliminating human error. Part and subassembly quantities are always kept up to date and are instantly organized and populated into a drawing parts list. Ballooning and item numbering are automatic. And now you have greater flexibility in creating and customizing parts lists to meet company standards

Automatically create front, side, ISO, detail, section, and auxiliary views—with automatic retrieval of model dimensions—to reduce the time it takes to create drawings using traditional 2D methods. Use a robust palette of dimension, annotation, and 2D symbols to quickly complete your drawing set. Create overlay drawing views that illustrate various positional states of assemblies.

Import/Export Formats Autodesk Inventor Series supports industry-standard data transfer for importing and exporting design and drawing information. It enhances collaboration with suppliers and customers by enabling sharing and reuse of design data with other 3D CAD/CAM systems. You can import DWG, DXF™, Pro/EngineerE®, SAT, IGES, and STEP files. Export part assembly files, including SAT, IGES, STEP, STL, and Autodesk® Buzzsaw® online service. Export drawing files including DWG (with full-layer mapping), Autodesk® DWF™ (Design Web Format™), and DXF files.

Construction Environment

Import of Autodesk Mechanical Desktop Designs

The new IGES or STEP construction environment simplifies collaboration by enabling sharing and reuse of design data with 3D CAD/CAM systems. It includes tools for inspecting, editing, and correcting the data before use, making reuse of imported solids, surfaces, wireframes, and points easier than ever.

Easy import of Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® designs automates migration to Autodesk Inventor® Series software. Reuse your Mechanical Desktop models and drawings as parts, assemblies, and drawings in native Autodesk Inventor format while maintaining their original design, constraints, and drawing relationships. Migration functionality supports automatic drawing view creation, recognizing model-to-drawing associativity for annotations, scenes, unit settings, and more.

Autodesk DWF (Design Web Format)

The Autodesk DWF (Design Web Format) file format enables all team members to easily and securely view 2D and 3D designs published directly from Autodesk manufacturing design applications. Use Autodesk® DWF™ Composer to easily review, mark up, and print designs. And all extended team members can use the free* Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer application to review and print designs.

Task Scheduler

Autodesk Inventor Studio

Reduce prototyping costs by creating high-quality photorealistic renderings and animations. Improve communication by quickly illustrating concepts for presentations. With Autodesk Inventor® Studio you produce state-of-the-art rendering and animations directly in the design environment. Now you have streamlined access to this specialized and typically expensive functionality without having to learn a separate application.

Automate repetitive tasks and boost your productivity with the new task scheduler. Schedule single or multiple (batch) automated tasks such as:

• File migrations from AutoCAD, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, and Autodesk Inventor software
• Assembly and drawing updates
• Print jobs
• IGES and STEP import and export
• DWF publishing
• DWG import and export
• User-defined tasks

Content Center

Access the content you need—when you need it. The new Content Center gives you fast and easy access to a unified database of components, simplifying creation, reuse, and management of all company content. Enhancing and expanding the standard parts library, the Content Center provides innovative content management, customization, and publishing capabilities for both individual users and workgroups. In addition, you get:
• A robust graphical utility for accessing and publishing user-defined content (parts and iParts), an intuitive editor, and a powerful search tool
• User-defined views of content, including access to commonly used components (favorites)
• A centralized content repository with access controls and an automated library update notification utility that notifies you of changes in the assembly and provides a refresh option
• Access to all Autodesk Inventor® Professional tube and pipe content

AutoCAD Migration Utility

Improve your workflow and make the most of your AutoCAD data. Quickly import AutoCAD drawings and map layers into the Autodesk Inventor environment as a completed assembly or as a part for your 3D layout. In addition, the software automatically senses AutoCAD units on import.

Subscription Services

Get instant access to the most up-to-date support information and training materials. Through the Subscription Aware feature, Autodesk® Subscription members can now access subscription services, including support and training, directly through the Help menu.

Autodesk Inventor 11 Recommended System Requirements

The following recommendations apply to Autodesk Inventor® software.

Includes Autodesk Vault client

Part & assembly design (less than 1,000 parts):

Intel® Pentium® 4, XeonT, or AMD AthlonT,
2GHz or better processor 3.5+ GB free hard drive space (for installation)
1+ GB RAM
128+ MB DirectX or OpenGL Capable graphics card

Large assembly design (more than 1,000 parts):

Intel® Pentium® 4, XeonT, or AMD OpteronT,
3GHz or better processor
3.5+ GB free hard drive space (for installation)
3+ GB RAM 128+ MB DirectX or OpenGL Capable, Workstation Class graphics card Supported Operating Systems
Windows® 2000 Professional SP4 Windows® XP Professional SP1, SP2 Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition (1)

Other Requirements

DVD-ROM drive. Autodesk Inventor software is shipped in DVD format only. Upon receipt of the product, if you would like CD format, please fill out the business reply card and send back to Autodesk for fulfillment.
Please refer to the Autodesk published graphics card recommendations at http://www.autodesk.com/inventor-graphic-cards.
Internet connection for web downloads and Subscription Aware access
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or later
Microsoft Excel 2000 or later for iComponents, thread customization and spread sheet driven designs
NetMeeting® 3.01 or later for web-collaboration
Autodesk recommends settings which allow Microsoft Windows to manage virtual memory, as needed. There should always be at least twice as much free hard disk space as system memory.