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CAD for iPhone/iPad (Update)

Has Autodesk been listening? I think so. Autodesk has announced an upcoming release of AutoCAD WS. This will be a free application allowing you to view, edit and share AutoCAD DWG files.

This is certainly good news for the travelling engineer or in-field technician needing to view and edit DWG drawing files without carrying around out of date printed copies.

 
More information can be found here:
http://butterfly.autodesk.com/mobile/.

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Inventor 2011: Service Pack 1

Inventor 2011, service pack 1 is now available from Autodesk. They must have been in a hurry to post it, looks like they forgot to update the copy-n-paste references to Inventor 2010.

Check out all that’s been patched via the readme.

Download Link

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iLogic – Web Configurator

I came across this You Tube video when looking for some new iLogic tutorials. I’ll have to say, this is some pretty exciting stuff coming out of Autodesk. The video shows a web based configuration tool for driving your iLogic rules within Autodesk Inventor. Both a part and associated drawing can be created by simply filling out a web based form.

Here’s the link to the step by step how-to-guide:

http://autodeskmfg.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-did-i-put-together-ilogic-web.html

Check out the video:

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Inventor: No support (yet) for Excel 2010

This is a good read from the official support blog for Inventor, “Being Inventive“. According to the post, it’s confirmed. Inventor 2010 (and obviously all previous versions) does not yet support Excel 2010. I may have to try this out, but I’m fairly certain there is a path to installing Office 2010, uninstalling Excel 2010 and then reinstalling Excel 2007. This will keep Inventor working and satisfy your appetite for the latest and greatest software from Microsoft.

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