Future of Inventor

[Greg Needel]

one of the major improvements with 11 is going to be working with surfaces instead of solids. Inventor has alot of capability now but surfaces remain alot to be desired, I have heard (i saw a demo) that it is much better in 11.

For what it's worth i have been switched over to pro-e for the time and and am not getting a chance to do much with inventor now.

[Greg Perkins]

I'll be taking a class on may 7th for work. We are gonna get a single copy of 11 and I'll tell you what I'm excited as all heck to use it!

You're gonna have a blast with 11. The Autodesk booth at SVR was home to an Autodesk rep for a bit, and he had 11 on his lappy.

Make sure you check out the new frame generator, it's AMAZING. You can make an entire robot frame, actually quite complex, in just a couple of minutes. And yes, there is a lot more focus on surfaces.

(it turns out I can't find my pdf of what's new, I seem to have lost it...)

[Robert Thacker-]

OK Inventor 11 is not much different from 10 (at least not like the leap from 9 to 10)

There will be i-Assemblies now. Which we won't realy use much, mostly will benefit the major corporations that use the program.

You can render images now (in 10, they all disappear-kind've defeats the purpose)

The chain feature can handle really small links now

They made the program able to handle larger files more easily by being able to turn off all bolts and screws to handle huge file sizes



Those are really all the highlights, there's a little more that deals with a better ease of navagation. Unfortunately, I think that our team will just stick with Inventor 10 next year. But I personally would think about getting the next one, because the only major difference I liked when I played with the program was being able to render images. But, of course, it's always awesome to have the latest version.