Autodesk AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite 2010 [32 & 64 Bit]

Inventor Professional Suite offers a comprehensive and flexible set of 3D modelling and mechanical design tools for producing and documenting complete 3D digital prototypes that validate the form, fit, and function of a design. The Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that enables users to check design and engineering data as they work, minimising the need for physical prototypes and reducing costly engineering changes typically discovered after the design has been sent to manufacturing.

Inventor Professional Suite 2010 includes:

• Autodesk Inventor
• AutoCAD Mechanical
• Cable and Harness Design
• Tube, Pipe and Flexible Hose Design
• Stress Analysis (FEA)
• Dynamic Simulation
• Mold and Tooling Design
• Autodesk Vault

Top Features:

Design and Validate Your Products Digitally
Autodesk Inventor software products include an intuitive parametric design environment for developing initial concept sketches and kinematic models of parts and assemblies. Inventor software automates the advanced geometry creation of intelligent components, such as plastic parts, steel frames,  rotating machinery, tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and wire harnesses. Inventor software helps reduce the geometry burden so you can rapidly build and refine digital prototypes that validate design functions and help minimize manufacturing costs.

Streamline Mold Design
The Autodesk Inventor product line includes automated mold design tools that work directly from Inventor 3D models of plastic parts. Powered by Autodesk® Moldflow® plastic flow analysis tools, Inventor can help to optimize your design for moldability and minimize the number of mold iterations.

Improve Design Communication and Collaboration
Reduce errors and associated engineering change orders before manufacturing by generating manufacturing documentation directly from your validated 3D digital prototype. Inventor offers rapid and accurate output of production-ready drawings directly from the 3D model. Inventor product bundles also include AutoCAD® Mechanical software for situations that require a high-productivity 2D mechanical drafting tool.

Integrated Motion Simulation
Use motion simulation — not intuition — to enhance your design decisions. The motion simulation feature in Autodesk Inventor software uses the assembly constraints in your 3D model to identify relevant rigid bodies, generate correct motion joints, and compute dynamic behavior. This helps you to quickly understand the design’s behaviors, including the position, velocity, and accelerations of the moving parts.

Integrated FEA
Increase the accuracy and reliability of your design stress analysis. Use integrated FEA to predict stress and deflection with accurate peak loads by transferring reaction forces from simulation time steps to AIP stress analysis.

Adaptive Solver
Conduct finite element studies faster and apply the results sooner. Adaptive solver technology and localized tuning algorithms within Inventor give you accurate results more quickly.

Static Analysis
Make sure your designs are strong enough while avoiding over-designing. Examine the deformation of parts and assemblies under static loads to determine maximum and minimum stresses and deflections. At the same time, you can help assure designs meet the necessary safety standards.

Load Definition
Apply different driving loads and torques as well as time-based force functions using the Load Profile editor. Use this tool to investigate the design’s performance under a range of different load conditions.

Modal Analysis
Prevent annoying and potentially hazardous vibrations without having to build and test physical prototypes. Use studies of oscillating modes to explore the vibrations and natural frequencies of the parts or assemblies within your design. Then make changes that reduce the amplitude of oscillations.

Parametric Studies
Improve the structural performance of your designs. Use the Parameter Table tool to create parametric studies of design constraints and understand the effect of different parameter values. You’ll be able to explore the impact of changes, such as wall thickness, fillet radius, and hole diameter, to your design.

Design Update
Quickly apply the results of simulation studies to your 3D model. You can select new parameter values from parametric and optimization studies. The
Promote tool automatically modifies the assemblies and parts within your model.

Point Trace
Easily calculate motion paths and save time by simplifying the design of cams, grooved paths, and other motion-dependent components. Select any point in the model and use the Trace tool to display the point’s location at each step in the motion simulation. Using Inventor, you can also save simulation outputs, including path traces and assembly positions, for use in part and assembly design.

Tooling Creation

• Tooling and Mold Design

3D Mechanical Design

• Layout and System Design
• Plastic Part Design
• Sheet Metal Design
• Assembly Design

CAD Productivity Tools 

• AutoCAD Integration and DWG
• Interoperability
• Native Translators
• Learning Resources
• Customization and Automation

Design Communication

• Design and Manufacturing Documentation
• 3D Visualization and Design Communication
• Data Management

Minimum System Requirements

For general part and assembly design (typically fewer than 1,000 parts):

• Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate Operating System(1,2,3)

or

• Windows® XP Professional (SP2 and SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) Operating System(1,2,3)
• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon™, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™, or later(4)
• 2 GB RAM minimum(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(9)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 2003 through 2007 for iComponents, thread customisation, and spreadsheet-driven designs

For complex models and large assemblies (typically more than 1,000 parts), Autodesk recommends a system meeting the following specifications:

• 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