Skill: Mechanical Engineering Design
Country: Canada
Featuring: Joe Astroth

Joe Astroth, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Education and Learning. Joe is a 13 year veteran of Autodesk and formerly was a professor at the University of Missouri. Thus, he has walked in the shoes of his customers and brings a great deal of passion and experience to education at Autodesk.

Joe explains Autodesk’s involvement in the 40th WorldSkills Competition in Calgary and how they have made a solid commitment to the youth involved in WorldSkills Calgary 2009, the software users of the future and to education in general.

Joe encourages other organisations to get involved and make a long-standing contribution.

I’m sure most of you might have faster learning curve, few slow. CADProfessor, has been working on developing a new E Book to support learning of Autodesk Inventor 2010.

Meanwhile see this as a starting material Click Here

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I need the web team to post the installer for download, but I have the rest of the Labs site ready. On Monday we should be able to release the iCopy tool for Inventor.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/inventor_icopy/

When this utility is available for download, you can try it out and let us know if this is something we should continue with: labs.iv.icopy@autodesk.com.

Cheer up,

Its christmas for Autodesk, 

In an effort to develope a strong base for Digital Prototyping, Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in design innovation technologies, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of analysis and simulation software, for approximately $34 million (Click Here)

“Autodesk strives to offer manufacturers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use Digital Prototyping solution on the market,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. “The acquisition of ALGOR will add significant new capabilities to virtually test and predict the impact of simultaneous real world conditions like heat and pressure on product designs.”

“Since 1976, ALGOR’s accurate, easy-to-use analysis and simulation tools have helped mechanical engineers make better, safer products at a lower cost,” said Michael Bussler, president and founder of ALGOR. “We have enjoyed a long-standing partnership with Autodesk, and the combination of our proven technologies will be an exciting new chapter for our customers worldwide.”

Some of the Products that Algor support are

Algor provides wide range of simulation capabilities that includes: static stress with linear and nonlinear material models; Mechanical Event Simulation (MES) for nonlinear, multi-body dynamics with large-scale motion, large deformation and large strain with body-to-body contact; linear dynamics; fatigue; CFD including steady-state and transient heat transfer, steady and unsteady fluid flow and mass transfer; electrostatics; full multiphysics; and piping. These analysis capabilities are all available within FEMPRO, an easy-to-use single user interface that provides direct data exchange and full associativity with virtually all CAD solid modelers and includes sketching, modeling and meshing tools.

I’m looking forward for the integration since I have been using Algor products since last 3 years.

This also provides a strong message to the CAD/CAE world that Autodesk Inventor Professional will be tool that every CAD/CAE user would love to see on their desktop or laptops.

Autodesk Inventor had its first entry into the CAD World almost 10 years back with (Inventor 1 “Mustang” 9/20/99). It has developed into a bigger and  productive tool over the years with recent support for Digital Prototyping, this can be proved by just working with various versions and different options available.

Well, the information below gives you an overview about the various releases since 1999. Of course, Inventor has followed a codenamed project for every release as listed below. However, after 1995, the code names where changed to Famous Scientist / Inventor (this is a mark of respect for their contribution to the society)

Release  Version Code Name     Year

Inventor      1         “Mustang”         9/20/99

Inventor      2         “Thunderbird”   3/1/00

Inventor      3         “Camaro”          8/1/00

Inventor      4         “Corvette”       12/1/00

Inventor      5         “Durango”        9/17/01

Inventor      5.3      “Prowler”          1/30/02

Inventor      6         “Viper”           10/15/02

Inventor      7         “Wrangler”       4/18/03

Inventor      8         “Cherokee”    10/15/03

Inventor      9         “Crossfire”      7/15/04

Inventor      10       “Freestyle“       4/6/05

Inventor      11       “Faraday”         4/6/06

Inventor   2008      “Goddard”       4/11/07

Inventor   2009      “Tesla”            4/16/08

Inventor   2010       “____”            4/20/09

Inventor   2011       ” Sikorsky”    3/25/2010

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Sunith Babu L

www.CAD Professor.in