Inventor 2013 or 2014?

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

I ended up going with 2014. While our school does use 2013, the robotics team does not use school computers for out CAD, we have an independent laptop, and now my new one. Seeing as the CAD is done primarily by myself and another kid who is still learning, this is not an issue.

I like how similar the two are, after playing around for the better part of the morning. One thing I have to ask though, how does one go about determining the weight of a system? I have all of my materials for my parts selected and all, I just need to figure out how to get the overall weight.

Thanks for all of the help guys!

Go into the assembly's iProperties in the browser bar, then go to the Physical tab. You'll probably have to hit Update.

[magnets]

I'd actually recommend 2013. Autodesk isn't known for having polished first releases on their software, and 2014 is still pretty buggy for me. Importing our 2011 robot step file into 2013 takes 15 seconds. Importing the same file in 2014 takes 5 minutes. On the school computers, we have graphics issues, and when under load (zooming large assemblies, placing huge assemblies...) it locks up quite often.

The new features of 2014 aren't really that spectacular, and if you can live without them, I'd stay away from it.