Inventor

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.

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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:

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.

A new beta tool has been released on Autodesk Labs which allows you to annotate a part file within the modeling environment. This may be a handy tool for quickly communicating design intent from a designer to a drafter or dropping into a design review presentation. If you make widgets at your company, you could technically use this tool to bypass the whole drawing creation step. Check it out for yourself here: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/inventor3da/

Not really sure why, but the addin is only available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom, and United States.