Autodesk
Inventor Series 11
3D
CAD Free Form Modeler, Autodesk Inventor 11 plus FREE Autodesk Mechanical
Desktop 2007 (3D AutoCAD based Modeler), FREE AutoCAD Mechanical
2007, and FREE AutoCAD 2007
Why Move
to 3D?
Clearly
communicate your design intent with the Autodesk Inventor® family of
software products. Quickly bring your ideas to life and easily explore
all your design options, while automatically updating changes to affected
parts, assemblies, and drawings. Create and test virtual assemblies to
ensure the fit form and function of your design before it is sent to the
manufacturing floor. You can even create specialized designs that contain
cables, harness, tubes, pipes, and validate your designs with finite element
analysis (FEA) and dynamic simulation tools that to ensure the safety and
strength of you design.
This
overview provides seven simple reasons why moving to 3D with Autodesk Inventor
is the best choice for AutoCAD users. If you’re looking to stay ahead of
the competition by moving beyond the limitations of 2D design. If you’re
trying to get to market faster or reduce errors in your design process,
moving to 3D is the next step.
Autodesk
understands the challenges of the 2D design environment that designers
are often faced with:
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Need to
support both 2D and 3D design processes
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Worried
about losing AutoCAD expertise and design data
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Need to
rapidly create production ready drawings for downstream users
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Products
are experiencing stress-related field failures
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Takes
too long to develop piping or wiring designs
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Need to
spend more time solving design problems and less time solving geometry
modeling problems
Make
your move to 3D as easy as possible with Autodesk, and see why Autodesk
Inventor is the best choice for AutoCAD users.
The
Autodesk Inventor product line provides a comprehensive and integrated
set of design applications and 2D transition tools to help manufacturing
companies move to 3D. It includes Autodesk Inventor® Series software
for 3D design and documentation, Autodesk Inventor® Professional products
for creating routed systems and validating designs, AutoCAD® Mechanical
for 2D drawing and detailing, and Autodesk® Vault software for data
management. Autodesk Inventor also delivers a new ground-breaking modeling
paradigm, Functional Design. It allows designers to move beyond geometric
modeling and into an environment where they can focus on the problem they
are trying to solve rather than spending time solely on the 3D geometry
required to build the design.
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Large
Assembly Management—NEW
Realize
the benefits of 3D design when developing very large assemblies. With Level
of Detail Representations you have full control over which parts of your
project are loaded into memory when you open the model. The capacity meter
enables you to monitor memory consumption as you work so you can quickly
open a huge project file to review the assembly structure and then choose
to open only those subassemblies needed to get the job done.
Other
components of Autodesk Inventor® software have been designed to support
large assemblies, including advanced bill of materials (BOM) management
and integrated data management to simplify the control and versioning of
large numbers of part and assembly models.
Frame
Generator—NEW
Use
the frame generator to automate the design of welded structural frames.
Design and development of structural frames is fast with tools that streamline
placement of predefined structural shapes and simplify creation of end
conditions and welded joint cleanup.
Assembly
Configurations—NEW
New
assembly configurations make it fast and efficient to design and document
product families by defining variations from a master assembly. With assembly
configurations, you can exclude or substitute individual components and
make changes to dimension and constraint values. Then document the entire
product family using the new Table tool to add a parameter table in your
assembly drawing.
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.
Advanced
Shape Description
Develop
aesthetically pleasing, high-quality products using Autodesk Inventor tools
to create a wide range of complex geometry by easily combining solids and
surfaces. You have precise control of shape characteristics such as tangency
and continuity by using enhanced modeling tools such as Loft to a Point,
N Sided Patch, Sweep Normal to Surface, Centerline Loft, G2 Continuous
Fillets, Full Round Fillets, and Face-to-Face Fillets.
Sculpt
Tool—NEW
Use
the new Sculpt tool to create 3D shapes by quickly and easily combining
closed sets of surfaces. Incorporate imported surface data into your design
using the Sculpt tool to modify existing parts by adding or removing material.
Content
Center
Access
the content you need—when you need it. The Content Center gives you fast
and easy access to a centralized library of engineering content, simplifying
creation, reuse, and management of all company-approved content. It provides
an easy-to-use content browser with search and filter tools to help you
quickly find the right part families. The Content Center includes more
than 650,000 components—such as nuts, bolts, and screws—and enables companies
to add in-house parts and standard features to user-defined libraries.
AutoDrop—NEW
When
you need to add many standard components to a design, AutoDrop boosts your
productivity by providing intelligent component insertion with one-click
placement. AutoDrop selects the part with the correct dimension as you
move the cursor over valid geometry. Graphical preview and intelligent
3D grips provide incremental adjustment based on sizes available in the
Content Center.
Content
Center Publishing Tools
Quickly
prepare and publish large catalogs of library parts. The Content Center’s
publishing tools include an editing environment and batch processing of
large data sets to streamline the process of preparing and publishing company
parts as well as vendor catalogs. It also includes tools to set up intelligent
part catalogs.
Sheet
Metal
Design
sheet metal components for manufacturing using specialized tools that allow
for quick changes and instant drawing updates. A powerful set of tools
enables you to create parts face by face, flange by flange, or by extruding
special contours. The software automatically calculates bend allowances
based on material and thickness while providing customizable bend tables
for correct flat pattern creation.
Bill of
Materials (BOM)
Provide
earlier visibility into accurate component lists to improve costing and
sourcing decisions. The BOM functionality provides a single source for
managing the assembly and subassembly structure of purchased and nonpurchased
parts, including virtual components. The result is accurate engineering
BOM data and faster release to manufacturing. Timesaving features include
the following:
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Automatic
numbering with support for numeric and alpha characters and item number
override
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Material
definition for virtual components such as glue and paint
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Direct
editing of materials in the BOM table so that you can make material changes
to more than one item at the same time
Parametrics
and Adaptivity
Cut down
design steps by making changes that propagate instantly throughout your
design, incorporating design engines for parametrics and adaptivity. This
functionality helps you associate parts in a way that allows the change
of one part to drive changes in associated parts.
Dimension-Driven
Design
Now it’s
easy to test multiple design concepts before defining the exact form and
fit, a faster approach than using AutoCAD® software to lay out designs.
Quickly sketch shapes without worrying about details, applying dimensions
to drive the geometry to the desired shape.
Design
Views
Boost
productivity when working with large, complex assemblies by storing and
sharing frequently used views and representations. Quickly isolate specific
parts or subassemblies to see what you want to see, when you want to see
it.
Sketching
Create
conceptual sketches of your designs using a free-form sketching environment
to create, connect, and reuse multiple sketches to build 2D/3D layouts
of design concepts.
Hole Features
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.
Component
Selection
Quickly
focus on just the assembly components you need for the task at hand. With
component selection and isolation, you choose a specific assembly component
and isolate your view to focus only on that component and the items within
your selection criteria. Control component visibility to enhance assembly
performance and accelerate design tasks.
Virtual
Prototyping
Build
more innovative, higher-quality products through rapid virtual design iterations.
Autodesk Inventor software offers an intuitive visual design environment
for working with parts and assemblies, which inspires interactive design
simulation to resolve product function before committing to a finished
part. This way, you can simulate and test designs interactively earlier
in the design process. And you can now easily create assemblies with multiple
instances of a subassembly—each in a different positional state.
3D Visualization
Take advantage
of constant feedback on component relationships in all design modes to
improve every aspect of your design before it’s built. To assist in making
the right design choices, view sketches, parts, and subassemblies in the
context of the design and assign realistic materials, textures, and lighting
to your models.
Contact
Detection Solver
Drag a
component to collide with another component to validate the reaction between
the two—a simple way to reduce errors early in the process and help improve
product function. And it’s easy to drive assembly motion, providing the
ability to test and retest design function.
Interference
Analysis
Cut costly
errors and improve design manufacturability with automated tools that test
for part interference, allowing the parts to be measured for proper fit.
You can also vary the component tolerance to validate manufacturing flexibility.
AutoLimits—NEW
AutoLimits
help reduce errors—and engineering changes—by monitoring key design parameters
and providing color-coded warnings when the parameter exceeds the design
limit. Use AutoLimits to monitor length, distance, angle, diameter, loop
length, area, volume, and mass.
Geometry
Analysis—NEW
Validate
surface characteristics to create high-quality models and then check design
data for manufacturability to avoid costly changes during the tooling phase.
Comprehensive analysis tools for checking geometric properties of an Autodesk
Inventor design are available in both the part design and construction
environments. Tools include the following:
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Zebra
analysis with density control and enhanced display accuracy, providing
visual confirmation of surface continuity and tangency
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Gaussian
surface analysis, providing feedback of surface curvature
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Cross
section analysis displaying wall thickness with color-coded feedback of
minimum and maximum thickness violations
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Draft
angle analysis displaying color-coded draft angle based on a pull direction
that can be defined by an axis, plane, or planar face
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Check
of minimum distance between two components or faces in an assembl
Physical
Properties
Improve
product design by using real-world properties to build a virtual prototype
of your design. Parts and assemblies created in Autodesk Inventor carry
physical property information—such as center of gravity, material type,
density, color, and texture—to help you make more informed design decisions.
Supplier
Content Center
Reduce
the time and effort required to incorporate standard components into your
designs. The Supplier Content Center provides web-based access to component
models from more than 100 leading manufacturers. The simple-to-use browser
provides quick and easy access to models in native Autodesk Inventor format.
And, it’s fully integrated with the Autodesk Inventor Content Center.
Associativity
Take
advantage of automatic propagation of design changes to reduce errors and
speed time to market. Associate parts and assemblies with design relationships,
so that a change made to a part is reflected in the assembly design and
all associated drawing files. In addition, a change to the assembly is
reflected in the parts and drawing files. This means that if you edit associated
components, such as parts and subassemblies, those changes ripple throughout
all parts, assemblies, presentations, drawings, and related partner add-ins
(such as CNC tool paths or finite element analysis).
Multisheet
Plot—NEW
Optimize
paper usage and reduce plot setup time using the Multisheet Plot feature
in Autodesk Inventor software. The Multisheet Plot Manager automatically
arranges drawing sheets to generate a composite plot file that optimizes
sheet layout on a selected paper size. Print plots directly, or save them
as a batch file.
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—part of the 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.
Component
Generators
Rapidly
design, analyze, and create commonly used machine components based on functional
requirements and specifications. Create parts and assemblies based on real-world
attributes and use conditions such as power, speed, torque, material properties,
working temperatures, and lubrication conditions. Autodesk Inventor software
includes component generators for mechanical connections, shafts and hubs,
o-rings, gear design, belt and chain drives, power screws, and springs.
Mechanical
Calculators
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. Included are calculators
for weld and solder, plain bearing, plate calculator, fit and tolerance,
brake, and clamping joint operations.
Engineer’s
Handbook
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
Autodesk Inventor.
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.
3D
Grips
Grip
editing is a fast and intuitive way to edit parametric parts. Activate
the 3D grip and simply drag the appropriate arrow to the required location.
Component
Copy
Dramatically
reduce the effort required to reuse designs with a flexible, timesaving
utility for copying assemblies, subassemblies, and parts from previous
designs. The utility includes automatic naming functionality to create
same-as and except versions of the design while maintaining the integrity
of assembly constraints, iMates, Workfeatures, welds, and assembly features.
Automatic
Drawing Views
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. The Drawing
Manager supports technical drawing standards such as ANSI, BSI, DIN, GB,
GOST, ISO, and JIS.
Automatic
Drawing Updates
Dramatically
reduce time spent updating and checking drawings. Autodesk Inventor associates
drawing views to the original components so any change made to a part or
an assembly is automatically reflected in the drawing. And Autodesk Inventor
supports global updates of drawing resources like title blocks, borders,
and sketched symbols.
Styles
Work
faster and help ensure that the work conforms to company standards with
the ability to control and instantly change the formatting of an entire
document. Styles make it easy to format characteristics such as font size,
color, standards, and linetype. When you apply a style, all formatting
instructions in that style are applied at once. And you can configure a
set of common company styles for everyone on a project to use.
Associative
Parts List
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 you have greater flexibility in creating and customizing
parts lists to meet company standards.
Open API
Customize
Autodesk Inventor software for your specific environment—and optimize engineering
productivity. A well-documented application programming interface (API)
helps you automate your specialized workflows.
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.
Import/Export
Formats
Autodesk
Inventor software 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. Import DWG, DXF™, Pro/E®, SAT, IGES,
and STEP files. Export part assembly files, including SAT, IGES, STEP,
STL, and the Autodesk Streamline® on-demand collaborative project management
solution. Export drawing files, including DWG (with full layer mapping),
and Autodesk® DWF™ and DXF formats.
Construction
Environment
The
Construction Environment provides fault-tolerant import of large STEP and
IGES data sets, facilitating collaboration by enabling sharing and reuse
of design data. It includes a comprehensive toolkit for inspecting, editing,
and correcting quarantined entities, including solids, surfaces, wireframes,
and points.
Mechanical
Desktop Import
Easy
import of Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® software designs automates
migration to Autodesk Inventor 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
Vault Integration
Integrated
with Autodesk Inventor software, Autodesk® Vault software is a centralized
data management application for workgroups that securely stores and manages
work-in-progress design data and related documents. Use it to maximize
return on your company’s investment in design data by driving design reuse.
AEC Exchange—NEW
The
AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) Exchange tool creates
and publishes simplified 3D representations, intelligent connection points,
and additional information in native file formats for Autodesk® Building
Systems. What’s more, you can also export 3D geometry to Autodesk®
Architectural Desktop, Autodesk® Revit®, and AutoCAD software.
Autodesk
DWF
The
Autodesk DWF technology 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.
*This
product is subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license
agreement that accompanies download of this software.
Autodesk
Inventor View
Share
designs with your extended manufacturing team with full-fidelity viewing
and printing of Autodesk Inventor files even for those without the application.
Nonusers can open and print part files (IPT), assembly files (IAM), and
drawing files (IDW).
Technical
Illustrations
Quickly
create technical illustrations, process sheets, training materials, part
manuals, assembly instruction sheets, and videos to train assembly teams
on the manufacturing floor.
Task Scheduler
Automate
repetitive tasks and boost your productivity with the new task scheduler.
Schedule single or multiple (batch) automated tasks such as
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File migrations
from AutoCAD, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, and Autodesk Inventor software
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Assembly
and drawing updates
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Print
jobs
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IGES and
STEP import and export
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DWF publishing
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DWG import
and export
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Autodesk
Vault check-in and check-out
User-defined
tasks
Autodesk
Inventor Studio
Improve
communication and reduce the need for physical models by creating high-quality,
photorealistic renderings and animations to illustrate design concepts.
With Autodesk Inventor Studio you have streamlined access to this specialized
and typically expensive functionality without having to learn a separate
application.
Autodesk
Productstream
Ensure
that your company’s designs are complete, accurate, approved, and released
to manufacturing in a timely and effective manner. Autodesk® Productstream™
software automates the release management process by managing engineering
changes and bills of materials while the engineering department maintains
control of the design data.
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.
Reuse
AutoCAD Drawing Templates
Speed
the transition from 2D to 3D by using your AutoCAD design templates, including
layers, title blocks, and standards information.
Ease of
Use
Autodesk
Inventor software offers the industry’s shortest path to full 3D productivity.
With a design environment featuring smarter commands, the software works
the way you want to work. Highly visual feedback and gesture-based interactivity
respond to cursor movement to help you work more efficiently.
Advanced
Help System
Speed
the transition to 3D with contextual help. The Design Support System (DSS)
provides browser-based support to quickly bring you up to speed and offers
an electronic infrastructure for easy learning.
Design
Doctor
Resolve
errors in your 3D model with highly refined diagnostic tools that recognize
potential design errors and recommend corrections. The Design Doctor™ feature
isolates conflicting constraints so it’s easy to find the areas that require
your attention.
Drawing
Automation API—NEW
Increase
productivity by developing tools to automate the production of product
documentation. The Drawing Manager API provides full access to the drawing
view geometry and commands for creating detail views, dimensions, and annotation
entities. It includes tools to control selection filters and extend the
Autodesk Inventor data model by adding custom attributes to Drawing Manager
objects.
Copy and
Paste from AutoCAD—NEW
Reusing
AutoCAD data in your 3D Autodesk Inventor designs is now even easier –
just copy AutoCAD profile geometry to the Microsoft® Windows® clipboard
and then paste it directly into an Autodesk Inventor sketch.
eLearning
Flexible
access to tutorials and best practices makes learning fast and easy. A
valuable component of Autodesk® Subscription, eLearning provides a
continually expanding curriculum of convenient, targeted training exercises.
Skill
Builders
Speed
learning through flexible access to up-to-date tutorials and best practices.
Extended learning modules provide enriched online help, tutorials, and
“show me” animations—with periodic updates available through the web.
Cable
& Harness
Create
virtual models of cable and wire harness designs with the specialized design
tools available in Autodesk Inventor® Professional products.
Design
Your Entire Product Line
Wire Creation
To
create a wire, simply specify two electrical points to be connected, and
the software automatically adds a wire. As your harness design progresses,
the software captures accurate electrical connection data.
Wires
represent both the physical geometry (diameter, color, length) of the wire
and the electrical data (wire ID, signal name, and from/to connection information).
You create all the appropriate geometry with one simple command. What’s
more, these intelligent wires move with their connectors, establishing
and maintaining electrical intent in a way that’s similar to the way you
work with mechanical design intent.
Harness
Path Definition
Visualize
harnesses in your 3D model and make the most of design trade-offs with
confidence that there is sufficient room for your electrical system. Define
harness and cable paths using a point-and-click method that creates 3D
virtual conduits in your model, with points easily added or moved to refine
the shape of the harness. You can create associative relationships to ensure
that your harness automatically updates as design components change.
Virtual
Parts—NEW
More
accurate BOM data means more accurate purchasing and cost forecasting.
Now you can simply select harness elements such as clips, terminals, looms,
and labels and insert them into the cable design as nongraphical parts
that are fully integrated with the Autodesk Inventor BOM.
Splices
Use
specialized splice objects to accurately and quickly depict connectivity
in harnesses that contain splices. Splices can exist in free space or on
a wire, or can be buried in a segment. Wires can be spliced interactively
or added to a splice via the wire list import feature. In Autodesk Inventor,
intelligent splice objects account for wire overlap or gaps between spliced
wires and feed downstream reports and nailboard documentation, reducing
errors in your harness design.
Multiconductor
Cables
Improve
quality and avoid errors by tracking individual cable conductors and their
connections and routing paths. Minimize waste by creating a more complete
BOM that includes accurate cable length and quantity data.
Create
intelligent representations of multiconductor cables, track which conductors
within a cable are in use or available, and use route and unroute commands
so that all wires within a cable are routed together. You can also
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Use existing
wire list import functionality to import cables automatically
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Create
bills of materials that accurately display cable data rather than individual
wires
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Create
configurable reports on cables
Create
Quality Products the First Time Around
Bundle
Diameter Calculation
Use
3D visual inspection and interference detection tools to accurately determine
whether wire bundles will fit your assembly. The software automatically
calculates bundle diameters whenever you add or remove wires, even accounting
for the air gaps between wires.
Wire Length
Calculation
Now
you can skip the time-consuming and error-prone process of measuring a
hardware prototype by hand. Automatically calculate highly accurate wire
lengths that update as the design changes. Length compensation factors
enable fine control over wire and cable lengths, reducing scrap and manufacturing
delays caused by wires that are too short or too long. What’s more, the
Embedded Length feature provides the ability to account for the amount
of wire that is used beyond the point where the wire enters a connector
or splice. Global Slack adds extra length to all wires and cables based
on a percentage of their length. And the Round Up feature produces practical,
manufacturable wire lengths by rounding the wire and cable length up to
the nearest specified unit.
Link to
Electrical Designs Created in AutoCAD Electrical
Make
sure that the 3D wiring design matches the electrical schematic from the
start. Transfer electrical connectivity from AutoCAD® Electrical software
with a Wire List file, one of the standard AutoCAD Electrical reports.
Bend Radius
Checking
Improve
cable quality, enhance manufacturing, and avoid costly recalls by automatically
checking that wires are not bent tighter than their minimum bend radius.
Identify points of failure due to tight turns and test manufacturability
of bends along large bundles.
Deliver
the Design in Less Time
Wire Routing
Use
automated and manual wire routing options to quickly route thousands of
wires while maintaining complete control over the paths of critical wire.
Wires are inserted into segments using three routing functions:
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Manual
routing requires explicit selection of a wire’s path.
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Interactive
routing requires selecting the start and end points of the routed path
to let an algorithm choose the shortest path.
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Automatic
routing finds the shortest possible path based on all available paths.
Nailboard
Quickly
create accurate 2D harness documentation with intelligent properties and
dimensions that automatically update as the 3D design changes. This capability
reduces errors caused by manual creation and multiple design iterations.
It’s easy to manipulate and annotate an associative 2D representation of
a 3D harness or cable. You can add pin, wire, and connector properties;
create 2D views of connectors; add dimensions to actual wire and bundle
lengths; and supply other data needed for manufacturing.
Assembly
Documentation
Instead
of relying on digital photographs or rough sketches, quickly and accurately
include details of the location of cable harnesses in your assemblies.
Since cable and harness geometry is native to Autodesk Inventor, you can
easily create assembly documentation using standard Drawing Manager functions.
Wire List
Import
Simplify
cable and harness design by using data from 2D wiring diagrams. Quickly
import hundreds of wires using a configurable from/to wire list that highlights
incomplete or inconsistent wire list data and enables you to easily correct
missing wire properties.
Wire Harness
Copy—NEW
Reuse
harness design runs—and save valuable design time. Use a past design as
a starting point by copying and reusing existing harness assemblies.
Manage
and Share Design Data
Report
Generation
Streamline
and automate the creation of reports from the unified wire harness database.
Use the report generation utility to define report templates and run reports
such as wire lists, termination charts, cut tables, and others needed to
design and manufacture harnesses.
XML Output
The XML
Output function provides a complete description of the harness assembly
in an easily readable, language-independent XML file. Further integrate
wiring data into your design process by creating macros and other utilities
that access the harness data via the XML file.
Tube &
Pipe
Automate
the creation of tubes, pipes, and flexible hoses with the specialized tools
available in Autodesk Inventor® Professional products.
Design
Your Complete Product Line
Flexible
Hose
Make
sure your flexible hose and fitting designs fit properly by creating a
virtual prototype that provides accurate manufacturing documentation. Use
the 3D spline-based method to create realistic hose models. The software
checks the minimum bend radius and automatically calculates and includes
hose length in length roll-up commands.
Pipe Routing
Create
and modify pipe routes quickly and easily by selecting a start point, an
end point, and any number of intermediate points to define the route. Complete
associativity with your drawing means that pipe routes automatically update
when your 3D assembly changes. Constrained routing gives you precise control
over the location of piping runs using 3D Sketch tools. A rules-based approach
automatically conforms your model to design rules such as minimum or maximum
length criteria, helping you become more productive.
Route
and Run Copy—New
Increase
productivity by quickly and easily reusing complete pipe routings from
a previous design.
Rigid
Tube Routing
Quickly
create rigid tubes with superior control over the shape—including an arbitrary
number of bends, bend angles, and radii. The radius and rotation handles
offer greater control over the shape of a rigid tube.
Custom
Bends in Pipe Runs
In
real-world piping designs, you may need to bend a pipe rather than insert
an elbow. The Custom Bend command provides flexibility and control even
for nonstandard designs. You can create bends of custom radius and angle
with the familiar methods used for rigid tubing.
Create
Quality Products the First Time Around
Fittings
Library
Improve
quality, easily organize parts, and eliminate tedious searching with automatic
placement of the correct part from an extensive library of piping components.
The library includes commonly used, industry-standard ISO, ANSI, DIN, and
JIS fittings, tubing, piping, and hose. The following features help to
improve your productivity and streamline your workflow:
-
Ability
to add or modify properties, including part number, of existing parts in
the library
-
Control
over the file names used to instance fittings, pipe, tube, and other Tube
and Pipe content
-
Intuitive
interface to add user-defined parts
Branch
Fittings—NEW
Extend
piping models to include threaded and welded branch fittings. Simply select
a branch fitting from the Content Center and place it onto a pipe run using
interactive controls to define the linear and circumferential position.
Branch fittings added in this way automatically generate the correct attachment
hole in the existing pipe.
ISOGEN
PCF Output
Use
the Piping Component File (PCF) output to reduce errors by automatically
creating isometric pipe drawings with third-party applications. Create
PCFs to use as an interface to the industry-standard Alias® ISOGEN
software. Based on your PCF input file, ISOGEN creates a DXF™ or DWG file
containing the isometric drawings.
Design
Rules
Enhance
the quality and manufacturability of your designs with tube and pipe runs
that automatically adhere to preset standards. Configure design rules and
determine minimum segment lengths, bend radii, and maximum length between
couplings. You can also specify the appropriate fittings for a given pipe
style.
Deliver
the Design in Less Time
Creating
Runs
Automatically
populate piping routes with real parts that adhere to your manufacturing
standards. The Populate Route tool turns tube, pipe, and hose routes into
physical pipe runs, automatically placing fittings, pipe segments, rigid
tubes, and hoses as needed. Standard Autodesk Inventor parts are created
during this process to make it easy to perform mass property calculations
and interference checks. What’s more, couplings are automatically placed
when pipes reach their maximum length, and you can specify length cutoff
increments.
Assembly
Documentation
Quickly
and easily include accurate details about tubing, piping, and hose locations
in your assemblies. Since all the tube and pipe geometry is native to Autodesk
Inventor, you can easily create assembly documentation using standard Drawing
Manager functions.
Tubing
Bend Tables
Save
time and reduce errors by automatically generating bend tables based on
3D data. You can create ASCII bend tables in standard XYZ or YBC formats
to provide details to manufacturing.
IDF Import
Automate
the creation of printed circuit board geometry.
Import
PCB Geometry
Save
time by importing printed circuit board (PCB) geometry in Intermediate
Data Format (IDF) files directly into your model, establishing fit without
creating a physical prototype.
Stress
Analysis (FEA)
With
the specialized tools available in Autodesk Inventor® Professional
products, add loads and constraints to a part model and analyze the results.
Create
Quality Products the First Time Around
Evaluate
Part Function
Save time
by removing the guesswork from part design. Examine how your parts perform
in the real world by being able to visualize just how much they will deflect
under realistic operating conditions.
Analyze
Material Selection
Stop overdesigning
parts and start saving money by choosing the best possible material type
for the task at hand. Using less material results in a lower cost per part
and saves money downstream on shipping, material handling, and warehousing
fees.
Check
Safety Factor
Make
design decisions based on analysis rather than intuition. Let the simulation
assist you in building the optimal part. Visually identify trouble spots
that fall below your safety factor requirements and develop alternative
solutions for these areas.
Stress
Analysis
Create
higher-quality parts and experience fewer field failures when you perform
finite element stress analysis right in the Autodesk Inventor environment.
Quickly add loads and constraints to the model and run the stress analysis.
Powered by ANSYS® DesignSpace, Autodesk Inventor Professional automatically
creates the finite element mesh and solves for equivalent stress, maximum
and minimum principal stress, deformation, and safety factor.
Frictionless
Constraints
Frictionless
constraints make it possible to analyze a broader range of parts. The Pin
constraint allows rotation around the center of a hole. The frictionless
face constraint allows movement along a face.
Embedded
Results Viewing
Because
you can view results without leaving the Autodesk Inventor environment,
you can make modifications more quickly and execute additional simulations
until you achieve the desired results.
Manage
and Share Design Data
Export
FEA Data to ANSYS
Use the
analysis from Autodesk Inventor directly in other ANSYS products, offering
a foundation for further validation, engineering review, and advanced studies.
This functionality accurately communicates load data to those performing
more advanced simulations.
Deflection
Animation
Gain
and communicate a deeper understanding of how a part reacts under stress
by animating results of a deflection study and saving as an animation (AVI)
file.
Share
Validation Results
Quickly
and easily add analysis results to reports by exporting to an AVI or graphics
(BMP) format.
2D to
3D
Easy-to-Use,
Integrated Analysis
Check
part designs and explore the impact of design changes on the fly, without
interrupting the design process by leaving the Autodesk Inventor application.
The tight integration requires no CAD model translation, so this analysis
functionality is easier to use than stand-alone solutions. Because you’ll
have access to functionality typically reserved for analysts, you can validate
designs while you draw, making it easy to optimize your designs.
In-Context
Part Analysis
Analyze
a part in the context of an assembly, without having to open the part directly.
When you view a part in context, you gain a better understanding of how
it functions in its operating environment, reducing errors downstream.
Dynamic
Simulation
See
how mechanisms perform under real-world conditions with time-varying loads,
friction characteristics, and dynamic components such as springs and dampers.
Create
Quality Products the First Time Around
Simulation—NEW
Simulating
the operation of mechanisms and motorized assemblies helps to ensure that
your designs are valid while avoiding the need for physical prototypes.
Use simulation features in Autodesk Inventor® software to compute the
dynamic operating conditions of your design throughout its full operating
cycle. Accurately size motors and actuators to sustain actual operating
loads. Analyze the positions, velocities, accelerations, and loads encountered
by each component of the mechanism.
Output
to FEA—NEW
Transfer
reaction forces from discrete time steps to Autodesk Inventor Stress Analysis
or ANSYS® Workbench to predict stress and deflection with accurate
peak loads. Size components such as pins and linkages to minimize weight
and material costs.
Motion
Constraints—NEW
Using
the comprehensive library of motion constraints, you can quickly and easily
set up the dynamic simulation. Then add springs and dampers, and define
the coefficient of friction that applies at each joint.
Load Definition—NEW
Apply
different driving loads and moments as well as time-based force functions
using the load profile editor. Use this tool to investigate your design’s
performance under a range of different load conditions.
3D Visualization—NEW
Animated
3D visualization shows dynamic motion based on underlying physics models
and the applied load conditions. The result is a better understanding of
the behavior and performance of your design.
Point
Trace—NEW
Select
any point in the model and use the Trace option to display the selected
point’s location at each step in the simulation. Validate actual component
position through the complete operating cycle.
Graphing
(Dynamic Simulation) —NEW
Use
the integrated, comprehensive graphing capability to quickly investigate
how properties such as force and acceleration vary through the machine’s
operating cycle. Plot physical parameters such as position, force, and
acceleration versus time. Compare different properties at each point in
the simulation cycle using multiple plots on the same graph.
Microsoft
Excel Output—NEW
Export
XY plot data to Microsoft® Excel worksheets, to analyze simulations
and incorporate results in presentations and reports
System
Requirements
Autodesk
Inventor 11 Products
The following
recommendations apply to Autodesk Inventor® software.
Recommended
System Requirements
Includes
Autodesk Vault client
Part
& assembly design (less than 1,000 parts):
-
Intel®
Pentium® 4, Xeon™, or AMD Athlon™, 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, Xeon™, or AMD Opteron™, 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://support.autodesk.com/inventor-graphic-cards/GraphicsCardsGeneral.htm.
-
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.
Note:
The preceding requirements are recommended for effective use of Autodesk
Inventor 11 software. The following minimum system requirements for Autodesk
Inventor 11 can be used for educational purposes or small assembly design:
Intel Pentium®. Xeon®, or AMD Athlon™ with 512MB RAM and 850MB
available hard disk space for Autodesk Inventor 11 and an additional 700MB
available hard disk space for Autodesk Inventor Professional 11.
Installation of the Content Center requires an additional 1.5+GB of hard
disk space and can be installed on a local workstation or centralized on
a server location for access by multiple users.
Autodesk
Data Management Server
The following
recommendations apply to Autodesk® Data Management Server software.
These requirements are in addition to any system requirements for individual
applications.
Recommended
System Requirements
-
Pentium
4, Xeon, or AMD Athlon, 2GHz or better processor
-
60 GB
free hard drive space
-
1+ GB
RAM
Preferred
System Requirements
-
Pentium
4, Xeon, or AMD Athlon, 3GHz or better processor
-
120+ GB
or more free hard drive space and backup storage
-
2+ GB
RAM
Supported
Operating Systems
-
Windows®
2000 Professional SP4 (2)
-
Windows®
XP Professional SP1, SP2 (2)
-
Windows®
XP Professional x64 Edition (1)
-
Windows®
Server 2000 SP4
-
Windows®
Server 2003 SP1, SP2
(1)
Autodesk Inventor 11 and Vault 5 software are supported to run as
32-bit applications on 64-bit extended systems (Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition operating system running on Intel EM64T or AMD64 family of
processors). AutoCAD Mechanical 2007 and Mechanical Desktop 2007 are not
supported on 64-bit extended systems.
(2)
Autodesk Data Management Server will support 10 simultaneous vault clients
with the MSDE database included with Vault. Additional users can
be supported using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Standard or Enterprise Edition),
or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise Edition).
In order to use these other SQL Versions, you must purchase this software
separately from Microsoft or a Microsoft reseller.
Note:
The Autodesk Vault client and the Autodesk Inventor application must use
the same language. Autodesk manufacturing applications and Autodesk Vault
clients of the same language may run on operating systems with a different
language.
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