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Autodesk Inventor Professional 9 FAQ
Autodesk Inventor® Professional is a comprehensive, integrated design solution. It combines Autodesk Inventor for 2D and 3D design and documentation, AutoCAD® Mechanical for 2D drawing and detailing, Autodesk® Vault for data management, and specialized tools for routed systems design, part validation, and IDF import. Autodesk Inventor Professional provides the following job-specific functionality: CABLE AND HARNESS capabilities create virtual models of cables, wires, and wire harnesses and provide automatic routing. Reporting features create accurate parts lists, assembly drawings, and documentation to effectively communicate design intent. TUBING AND PIPING capabilities create and edit tube, pipe, and flexible hoses routes, then automatically place fittings and pipe segments. Reporting features create accurate parts lists, assembly drawings, and documentation to effectively communicate designs. STRESS ANALYSIS capabilities perform load, stress, and strain analysis using finite element analysis (FEA) to check real-world part performance of an Autodesk Inventor part model and analyze the results. Autodesk developed Autodesk Inventor Professional for mechanical engineers and designers who need additional tools to complete the design of industrial machinery, electromechanical equipment, and industrial equipment. Autodesk Inventor Professional contains additional capabilities such as piping, wiring, and FEA that extend the benefits of Autodesk Inventor Series into new areas. These applications target functionality that is not used daily by all members of the design team but is used by a subset of the team. While the number of users will not be as high as for Autodesk Inventor Series, the return on investment for functions such as tube and pipe or cable and harness is very high. The current methods for designing these components are excessively manual, time-consuming, and error-prone. Autodesk Inventor Professional is packaged as a single product that, for one price, includes Autodesk Inventor Series plus the additional specialized functionality. You work with a single supplier; install a single product, and have a single point of contact for support. These factors mean you don't have to worry about integration issues or service pack incompatibilities. By offering all this for a single price, Autodesk Inventor Professional provides a better value than anything that has been available historically from competitors and their partners. The Autodesk Inventor Professional functionality can be shared among users with a floating license. The current Autodesk Inventor installed base, and in particular those industrial machinery manufacturers who have reasonably complete 3D models, will benefit from Autodesk Inventor Professional. Typically these customers want to maximize their use of Autodesk Inventor to automate specialized design disciplines. They have often tried creating wiring or piping within Autodesk Inventor, but their designs are too large and complex for this approach to be a practical solution. They need the efficiencies offered by the specialized applications to replace their current manual methods. An additional beneficiary of the Autodesk Inventor Professional functionality is the legacy CAD user looking for a new CAD system that intelligently handles these types of assemblies. Autodesk Inventor Professional addresses the needs of businesses interested in a simple-to-implement and affordable solution for fully designing, validating, and documenting all mechanical and electrical aspects of industrial machinery. Today businesses must either buy and integrate several niche applications or purchase expensive software from high-end suppliers. Autodesk Inventor Professional software provides a single, integrated, simple-to-deploy application that offers broad functionality at an excellent value. The typical process to design and document routed systems—such as tubing, cabling, and often piping—is to assemble a prototype machine and then have technicians or engineers route cables, tubes, and pipes through the system. Technicians then create documentation by taking pictures for assembly instructions and by pulling out the cables and reverse engineering them for cable drawings and the bill of materials. This process is highly iterative and occurs at the end of the machine design cycle, when errors and delays are the most costly. Using Autodesk Inventor Professional to model cabling, tubing, and piping decreases time to market by helping design teams both identify problems and ensure that all systems fit together before the first prototype machine is built. It also increases quality by automatically updating the tubing, cabling, and piping systems as required when other components in the assembly are modified. By providing the tools to build and document assemblies correctly the first time, Autodesk Inventor Professional helps reduce time to market. Engineers and designers need to understand how their parts will work in the real world before they actually commit to the final design. This is typically accomplished in one of two ways: using a physical prototype or performing an analysis using a sophisticated FEA package. Those relying on the physical prototype approach can be stuck in a design-build-test loop that adds cost as well as weeks to their design process. This process also stifles creativity, since it is difficult to explore many options due to cost and time constraints, and often results in over-designed parts. Another approach is to have an analyst conduct a multitude of specialized tests under real-world conditions. Following analysis the results are sent back to the designer for action. This process can also take days or weeks and offers little room for iteration. With the stress analysis functionality included in Autodesk Inventor Professional, designers can perform their own finite element analysis. Because no specialized expertise is required to use the analysis functionality, designers simply define the loads on a part and the software takes care of the rest, automatically creating an FEA mesh and providing feedback on safety factor and material performance. Because designers can view the results of their analysis without leaving the Autodesk Inventor environment, they can make quick modifications and rerun simulations until they get the results they want. If validation is still required, the designer can share the analysis data with other ANSYS® products to perform more advanced studies or further evaluations. Autodesk Inventor software is a high-performance 3D mechanical design system built for mechanical designers and engineers who need to reduce design time, get better products to market faster, and retain their competitive advantage. It is the most advanced mechanical CAD software in the mid-price range, offering users a risk-free path from 2D to 3D design. Autodesk Inventor solves significant problems by providing unique functionality that speeds and simplifies the design process, makes the design process easier to manage, enhances performance (particularly in large-assembly design), and integrates all these capabilities into one package that’s easy to learn and use. It offers a simple user interface, an advanced help and support system, and specific built-in migration assistance for the AutoCAD® user. The software successfully combines 2D capabilities with the power of 3D and provides industry-leading DWG compatibility.
Because the entire design, complete with tubing, cabling, and piping, is built in Autodesk Inventor Professional, the design data available for downstream use is more complete and accurate. With a common design platform, people in the extended design chain can use design data for additional tasks such as assembly and maintenance instructions. This capability can replace the common practice of taking pictures of machines or sending technicians into the field to explain how cabling or tubes are routed. The results are shorter time to market and lower costs. We are the only company that can help mainstream manufacturers create, manage, and share digital design data across the manufacturing process to Design better-quality products and bring them to market faster (create) Design Creation Autodesk Inventor Series is a comprehensive, integrated design software package. It combines Autodesk Inventor for 2D and 3D design and documentation with AutoCAD Mechanical for 2D drawing and detailing and Autodesk Vault for data management.
AutoCAD Mechanical is a 2D mechanical engineering design and drafting application with rich standards and parts base content, automated design tasks and calculations, and associative linking with Autodesk Inventor parts and assemblies. AutoCAD Electrical is a 2D design application that specifically creates and modifies electrical control drawings while maintaining a seamless, working integration with the AutoCAD environment. Autodesk Vault makes data management more efficient by organizing your design data and protecting it from inadvertent changes. This easy-to-use data management tool makes work-in-progress data more accessible and reusable, while avoiding the versioning problems inherent in sharing files among workgroups.
Autodesk Streamline is a hosted project management environment that increases communication with customers and suppliers. It provides secure web-based collaboration tools that allow design and project data to be shared from anywhere in the world with simple 2D and 3D design review and markup using Autodesk Design Web Format™ (DWF™) files. Reduce errors and promote design reuse by consolidating product information in a single location that allows you to track your design data and manage work-in-process without manual, paper-based processes. Autodesk offers two data management applications to help you make the most of your investment in existing design data, automate key processes, and securely manage work-in-process data. Built into AutoCAD® Mechanical 2005, AutoCAD® Electrical 2005, Autodesk Inventor® Series, and Autodesk Inventor® Professional, Autodesk® Vault makes data management more efficient by organizing your design data and protecting it from inadvertent changes. This easy-to-use data management tool makes work-in-process data more accessible and reusable while avoiding the versioning problems inherent in sharing files among workgroups. Most importantly, Autodesk Vault is tightly integrated with your Autodesk design applications, making data management easier than ever. Autodesk Vault accelerates development cycles, simplifies data management, improves engineering productivity, and protects all your engineering data. No. Autodesk Vault installs easily, without any complex “deployments” or extensive IT support. Autodesk Vault is integrated into Autodesk Inventor Series and Autodesk Inventor Professional with an intuitive interface that helps design teams quickly become effective. Autodesk Vault is self-supporting because of its simplicity and support tools, such as newsgroups, online help, and best practices documentation in the Managing Your Data book.
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