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AutoCAD® Inventor® Suite 2010
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Reasons to Buy
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
System Requirements
The following requirements are recommended for effective use of AutoCAD Inventor 2010 family of software for general part and assembly design (typically fewer than 1,000 parts):- Operating Systems (1,2,3)
- Windows Vista™ (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit): Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate
- Windows XP: Professional (SP2 and SP3), Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
- Intel® Pentium®4 - 2 GHz or faster, Intel® XeonTM, Intel® CoreTM, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron or later (4)
- 2 or more GB RAM (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. Note: The multimedia learning components of the Inventor Help system, such as the UI Video Tour, Command Reference, and Show Me animations require Adobe Flash Player 10 be installed. If it is not already installed, you can download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x through 7.x
- Microsoft Excel 2003 through 2007 for iComponents, thread customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs
- 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
System Requirements - *Notes
System Requirements - *Notes
Notes:(1) For installations of Inventor 2010 with local content libraries and/or Autodesk Vault 2010 access. Please see the Autodesk Data Management system requirements for remote server installations for sharing content libraries and/or Vault data between multiple-users.
(2) Inventor 2010 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 applications are each provided both as 32-bit applications and as 64-bit applications for installation and use on the corresponding operating system only. Autodesk Vault Explorer 2010 is a 32-bit application for installation and use on either a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system. (Both) The 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these applications are all provided together on the installation media.
(3) Autodesk Inventor/AutoCAD Mechanical design applications and Autodesk Vault must all be the same language on a given computer. English versions of these applications will run on any language operating system. Other language versions of these applications will run on operating systems of that same language.
(4) Autodesk Inventor 2010 has been optimized to take advantage of the SSE2 extended instruction sets supported on Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors. Inventor 2010 will not install on computers that do not support SSE2. Several utilities are available on the internet that report CPUID including supported instructions sets.
(5) 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 (RAM).
(6) Please refer to the Autodesk published graphics card information at: http://www.inventor-certified.com/graphics
(7) OpenGL graphics hardware acceleration is available only in legacy feature support mode by Microsoft for Windows XP Professional only. Direct 3D is not recommended for use with Windows XP 32-bit with the 3GB memory switch on.
(8) Inventor 2010 is available only on DVD media (or electronic download in some situations). CD media is no longer available. DVD-ROM drive is not required if installing using electronic download, however to accommodate the installation files you will require 9 GB of hard disk space and an additional 16 GB of space for temporary files created during the installation.
The preceding requirements are recommended for effective use of Autodesk Inventor 2010 software. For further details, please refer to the Readme document installed with Autodesk Inventor 2010.