Autodesk AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 [32 & 64 bit]

The Autodesk Inventor product line provides a comprehensive and flexible set of software for 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling creation, and design communication that helps users cost effectively take advantage of a digital prototyping workflow to design and build better products in less time. Autodesk® Inventor gives engineers the ability to integrate AutoCAD and 3D data into a single digital model that can be used to validate the form, fit, and function of a design before it is built. By enabling engineers to design, visualize, and simulate their products digitally, Inventor helps teams communicate more effectively, reduce errors and deliver more innovative product designs.

AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 includes Inventor, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Vault, and Inventor Studio.

Reasons to Buy:

Design, visualize, and simulate your products digitally.
Move beyond 3D and develop a complete digital prototype of your product with Autodesk Inventor software. As the foundation for Digital Prototyping, Autodesk Inventor produces an accurate 3D model that validates the form, fit, and function of a design before it is built—helping manufacturers reduce design and production costs.

Safely reuse valuable DWG data and experience the benefits of Digital Prototyping.
Inventor provides direct read and write capabilities for native DWG™ files while maintaining full associativity to the 3D model without the need for data-compromising translators. Engineers can safely reuse valuable DWG files to build accurate 3D part models and communicate insights gained from Digital Prototyping with partners and suppliers who rely on AutoCAD® software.

Optimize and validate product performance before the product is built.
Easy-to-use and tightly integrated motion simulation and stress analysis in the Autodesk Inventor product line (sold separately) make it possible to optimize and validate a digital prototype and predict how the design will work under real-world conditions, before the product is ever built.

Spend more time improving designs and less time solving geometry modeling problems.
Inventor combines an intuitive 3D mechanical design environment for creating parts and assemblies with tools that enable engineers to focus on a design’s function to drive the automatic creation of intelligent components such as plastic parts, steel frames, and rotating machinery. Reducing the geometry burden helps engineers spend more time rapidly building and refining digital prototypes that validate design functions and help optimize manufacturing costs.

Easily generate and share production-ready drawings and documentation.
Inventor includes comprehensive tools to generate engineering and manufacturing drawings and documentation directly from a validated 3D digital prototype. This capability helps design teams communicate more effectively, reduce errors, and deliver the design in less time.

Securely manage, share, and reuse engineering design data—even from other CAD systems.
Autodesk Inventor is tightly integrated with Autodesk data management applications to securely manage and track all the design components of a digital prototype—including 3D data originating from other CAD systems—to better reuse critical design data, manage bills of materials, and promote earlier collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients. Satisfy customer requests for 3D models in other native formats through a comprehensive suite of native translators.

Streamline the design of complex routed systems.
The Autodesk Inventor product line includes automated tools for designing routed systems, including complex tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and harness design (sold separately). This automation enables engineers to create and validate a more complete digital prototype that helps reduce errors before manufacturing and gets the product to market faster.

Streamline the design of plastic parts and efficiently create the tooling to manufacture them.
The Autodesk Inventor product line provides maximum flexibility to plastic-parts designers and manufacturers by combining specialized functionality and workflows that simplify the design of high-quality molded part models with automated capabilities for designing injection molds for plastic parts (sold separately). This enables users to design complex plastic parts and quickly create and validate their corresponding mold design, reducing errors and improving mold performance—resulting in higher product quality and a faster time to market.

System Requirements:

For general part and assembly design (typically fewer than 1,000 parts):

Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate Operating System(1,2,3)

or

Windows® XP Professional (SP2 and SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) Operating System(1,2,3)

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon™, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™, or later(4)
• 2 GB RAM minimum(5)
• Direct3D10, Direct3D 9 or OpenGL capable graphics card(6,7)
• DVD-ROM drive(8)
• Microsoft Mouse compliant pointing device
• 1280 x 1024 or higher screen resolution
• Internet connection for web downloads and Subscription-aware access
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10(9)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 2003 through 2007 for iComponents, thread customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs

For complex models and large assemblies (typically more than 1,000 parts), Autodesk recommends a system meeting the following specifications:

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2) or Windows Vista 64-bit (SP1)
• AMD64 or Intel® 64 processor
• 6 or more GB RAM
• CAD workstation-capable graphics card