Autodesk 2011 Digital Prototyping Software

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Autodesk introduced its new 2D and 3D designand engineering software lineup for manufacturers of all sizes seeking to digitally design, visualise and simulate their products before they are built. The tight technology integration offered by Autodesk Inventor 2011 software and the complete Autodesk Digital Prototyping software portfolio helps enable designers and engineers to compete more effectively and do more work in house.

“Over the last several years, Digital Prototyping workflows have torn down historic barriers to innovation ¾ time, money, distance, language ¾ and helped foster manufacturing teams in which designers, engineers, marketers and end customers collaborate continuously from concept to production,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president, Manufacturing Industry Group at Autodesk.

“Autodesk’s 2011 product lineup makes huge strides in technology integration and productivity, extending the benefits of Digital Prototyping to even more small and large manufacturers seeking to make better products.”

Autodesk enhanced its specialised tools for product development professionals focused on conceptual design, design visualisation, engineering and manufacturing disciplines, and at the same time, the company embedded key functionality from these tools within its core Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design and engineering software. New direct manipulation capabilities in Inventor 2011 software fundamentally improve the mechanical design process, helping accelerate design times as compared with Inventor 2010 software by approximately 40 percent on common tasks such as assembly modeling.

Inventor 2011 software also incorporates Autodesk’s leading design visualisation capabilities within the CAD application so users can better conceptualise and communicate designs with clients. New shading, lighting and material properties give users a photo-realistic representation of their designs, with Inventor software rendering designs as the user works.

“We have relied on Inventor software to create digital prototypes of our tooling and machinery products for nearly 10 years,” said George Radcliffe, manufacturing engineer for Park Manufacturing. “Inventor 2011 enhances our 3D design and engineering process on many fronts. The real-time performance of the new visualisation graphics engine gives us a surprising leap forward in output capability for design communication and marketing purposes. With 2011, we can easily create impressive rendered images with a combination of quality and speed that was impossible to achieve with Inventor 2010.”

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