Autodesk Announces Newest Version of Its Award-Winning Autodesk Inventor 3D Mechanical Design Software

New Version Delivering more than 200 Innovative Enhancements Helping Customers Achieve Increased Productivity and Time to Market

Sydney, Australia, 17 October 2002* Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), the world's leading design software and digital content company, today released the newest version of its award-winning Autodesk Inventor 3D software into the Australian and New Zealand market. Autodesk Inventor 6 will deliver significant new features and improvements based on customer feedback, giving manufacturing customers worldwide the most advanced mechanical CAD system in the mid-priced market. Autodesk Inventor 6 includes more than 200 major productivity and drawing enhancements, the addition of industry-specific solutions such as routing tools and weldments to meet customers' specific industrial machinery and electro-mechanical design needs, and new innovative shape description tools driven by the new Autodesk ShapeManager kernel that lets the user seamlessly mix solids and surfaces to create stylised, complex, and sculpted parts.

"This release of Autodesk Inventor software delivers customers the functionality they need to get their jobs done faster and compete more effectively by developing more innovative products faster, and realise increased margins on sales due to lower development, production, field maintenance, and warranty costs," said Andr� Pravaz, Autodesk Regional Director.

"Customers that are looking to move from 2D to 3D design will find that Autodesk Inventor offers unparalleled ease of use and superior productivity over other CAD systems on the market today."

Drawing Enhancements Autodesk continues its tradition of delivering the world's best drawing tools with Autodesk Inventor 6 and its leading drawing production environment. The ease of use and flexibility of formatting is the key to ensuring that companies that use Autodesk Inventor can produce drawings to their company's drafting standards faster than with other 2D or 3D systems. New features and improvements include the following:

* To make laying out drawings easier, Autodesk Inventor 6 includes a complete set of layout drawing tools such as breakout views, perspective views, weldment views, visibility of model sketches in drawing views, visibility of work geometry in views, and improved update control for drawings and bill of materials (BOM).

* Powerful and flexible annotation tools-such as custom hole notes, automatic centerlines, nested BOM, revision block, cosmetic weld annotations, improved balloons, improved hole tables, improved dimension styles, improved dual dimensioning, and improved user symbols for scale and rotate-help customers complete the entire drawing and annotation process.

Productivity Enhancements To help customers improve productivity and get their jobs done faster, Autodesk Inventor software includes significant improvements:

* Improved constraints give the designer more information about the 3D design. This information allows faster decisions to be made about the design and helps speed the editing of complex large assemblies commonly built with Autodesk Inventor

* New model tolerances let the user capture tolerances at the time of design. This capability means less information is lost between design and drawing documentation, and time is saved by avoiding the time-consuming task of capturing tolerances at different levels in the drawing process.

* Several enhancements in the Autodesk Mechanical Desktop translator expand the quantity and capability of features that are imported into Autodesk Inventor.

* An improved 3D content library supports more than 18 international standards. The library features standard parts that customers use most-screws and bolts, nuts, washers, adjusting rings, bearings, pins, rivets, shaft seals. Up to 80 percent of an industrial machine might be designed with standard and purchased parts, and with this comprehensive library, Autodesk Inventor users can quickly and easily find the standard parts they need most. Users will find that "favourites" designation, searching, and history views make working with the library even faster and easier.

Innovative Shape Description Tools Unified shape technology is an exciting new capability, driven by enhancements in Autodesk's new ShapeManager kernel, that allows both traditional surface modelling tools and advanced parametric modelling tools to be used seamlessly together. With this enhanced technology, designs can now be converted from solid to surface at any time and maintain their parametric history for fast and easy design changes. With Autodesk Inventor 6, customers now have the ability to mix solids and surfaces to create stylised, complex, and sculpted parts.

Industry-Specific Improvements To meet the demands of the industrial machinery and electro-mechanical markets, Autodesk Inventor 6 delivers significant improvements in the areas of weldments and routing. A new task-based environment in Autodesk Inventor 6 accelerates design of weldment assemblies. The weldment environment encompasses the whole design process for the weldment assembly, and captures the weld bead specification, weld edge preparation, and post-weld machining. The Autodesk Inventor 6 drawing manager enables drawings to be created that document the entire weldment manufacturing process, from component drawings to pre-weld drawing views and post-machining views. Special 2D symbols allow for both automatic and manual creation of standards-based welding drawings. This complete workflow of 3D design to 2D documentation ensures that the design information captured in 3D makes it to the 2D drawing automatically.

For routing, Autodesk Inventor 6 adds enhanced capabilities to help solve the complicated problem of creating 3D paths. Using a new dynamic 3D routing tool, designers can position critical points through which the 3D path must pass. The ability to graphically drag these routing points using both dynamic dragging and precision X, Y and Z placement greatly enhances the designer's ability to quickly define a 3D path through which a pipe, tube, or wire may be swept.

Availability and Pricing 

Available now, Inventor 6 is sold as part of the Autodesk Inventor Series for A$9500 excluding GST. Inclusion in the Autodesk Customer Support Program which includes software upgrades and access to Authorised Service Centre Support is available for an additional $2400, excluding GST.

About Autodesk 

Founded in 1982, Autodesk, Inc. is the world's leading design and digital media creation, management, and distribution company. The company serves a diverse portfolio of markets, including building design, geographic information systems, manufacturing, digital media, and wireless data services. By delivering tools that foster innovation and creativity, Autodesk helps customers throughout the value chain use digital design data to work better, faster, and smarter. 

www.autodesk.com.au

 

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