Facing these issues?
- Product design teams need to increase innovation in existing and new designs while reducing the time to market.
- Designers are interested in the benefits of Digital Prototyping but worried about losing investments in existing DWG™ design data.
- Designers need to optimize product performance and make accurate design decisions without building physical prototypes.
- Downstream users require rapid creation of production-ready drawings.
- Designers can’t easily find and reuse designs.
- Piping and wiring designs take too long to develop.
- Need to design complex molded plastic parts and create the tooling required to manufacture them.
Learn how Inventor can help you take advantage of a Digital Prototyping workflow to design and build better products in less time.
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Make Digital Prototyping Your Competitive Advantage
Industry experts are championing Digital Prototyping as a way to cost-effectively validate design ideas and accelerate the development of competitive products.
The Autodesk® Inventor® product line provides a
comprehensive and flexible set of software for 3D
mechanical design, simulation, tooling creation, and
design communication that help you cost-effectively
take advantage of a Digital Prototyping workflow to
design and build better products in less time.
Autodesk Inventor software is the foundation of
the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping. The
Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype
that enables you to validate the form, fit, and
function of a design as you work, minimizing the
need to test the design with physical prototypes.
By enabling you to use a digital prototype to
design, visualize, and simulate your products
digitally, Inventor software helps you communicate
more effectively, reduce errors, and deliver more
innovative product designs faster.
Design and Validate Your Products Digitally
Autodesk Inventor software products include an intuitive parametric design environment for developing initial concept sketches and kinematic models of parts and assemblies. Inventor software automates the advanced geometry creation of intelligent components, such as plastic parts, steel frames, rotating machinery, tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and wire harnesses. Inventor software helps reduce the geometry burden so you can rapidly build and refine digital prototypes that validate design functions and help minimize manufacturing costs.
Traditionally, validating the operating characteristics of a design before it was built usually meant hiring expensive specialists. But with Inventor software, designers don’t need to be a simulation expert to effectively simulate and optimize designs digitally. The Inventor product line includes easy-to-use and tightly integrated part and assembly-level motion simulation and stress analysis functionality. By simulating stress, deflection, and motion, designers can optimize and validate designs under real-world conditions, before the product or part is ever built.
Streamline Mold Design
The Autodesk Inventor product line includes automated mold design tools that work directly from Inventor 3D models of plastic parts. Powered by Autodesk® Moldflow® plastic flow analysis tools, Inventor can help to optimize your design for moldability and minimize the number of mold iterations.
Improve Design Communication and Collaboration
Reduce errors and associated engineering change orders before manufacturing by generating manufacturing documentation directly from your validated 3D digital prototype. Inventor offers rapid and accurate output of production-ready drawings directly from the 3D model. Inventor product bundles also include AutoCAD® Mechanical software for situations that require a high-productivity 2D mechanical drafting tool.
Inventor is tightly integrated with Autodesk data
management applications, enabling the efficient and
secure exchange of design data and promoting earlier
collaboration between design and manufacturing
workgroups. Different workgroups can manage
and track all components of a digital prototype with
free* Autodesk® Design Review software—the all digital
way to review, measure, mark up, and track
changes to designs, allowing for better reuse of
crucial design data, management of bills of materials
(BOMs), and collaboration with other teams and
partners.
With different product configurations that offer specific levels of functionality to fit your design needs, no company is more focused than Autodesk on helping you create accurate digital prototypes and bring better products to market faster at less cost.
Digital Prototyping for the Manufacturing Market
Autodesk is a world-leading supplier of engineering software,
providing companies with tools to experience their ideas before
they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology
within the reach of mainstream manufacturers, Autodesk is
changing the way manufacturers think about their design
processes and is helping them create more productive workflows.
The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in
that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, which allows
a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits with
minimal disruption to existing workflows, and provides the most
straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital
model in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
What’s New in Autodesk Inventor 2011
Autodesk Inventor 2011 provides a revolutionary design experience that offers significant benefits to engineers who need to design, visualize, and simulate their products. Major areas of focus in this release include new design, methodologies, rules-based design, and state-of-the-art visualization, as well as new Digital Prototyping technology which unites direct and parametric workflows within a single digital model. A summary of new features in Autodesk Inventor 2011, please check out the Autodesk Inventor 2011 technical documentation.
*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies
download of the software.
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