Inventor Publisher

[Rob Colatutto]

Has anyone used the Inventor Publisher software? Its an interesting piece, allowing you to create assembly guides with the 3d models and the like. It also just recently got a viewer released for the iPhone/iPad. (it also supports Pro/E models, although not the educational versions, however .step works just fine)

Thing I am unsure of, is how you publish files from the main software on windows, to the iDevices. All the instructions Autodesk gives is to load them to the iDevice through iTunes, but this does not seem to add them to the device, at least for me.

Is it possible that the educational version of Publisher is not compatible for whatever reason with the iDevice viewer? There is also a way to publish them directly to a device over the air, which has no instructions associated with it either.

Any ideas?

[pmax]

Hi Rob,
There is a panel in the Home tab, to the far right, called Publish. The default command is "Video," however the drop-down shows 8 other formats, including Mobile.

This will publish the model to an online space, using your Autodesk Online login. You can access the same space from the iPhone & iPad apps.

Note: The Educational version may not include this; I'll check.

-Pete
Autodesk

[Rob Colatutto]

Thanks for the feedback, and your correct, the Educational does not seem to include this option.

Do you think we could have this feature added to the student edition? I see great value for FIRST teams to be able to have their assembly plans on their phones at competition, etc.

[Rob Colatutto]

To update this topic with the resolution, Autodesk has updated the student version of the Inventor Publisher software to 2011 R1, and now all publish options are available, including to iPhone/iPad.

This will certainly be a useful tool at competition if teams take advantage of it. It will also import Solidworks and CreoElements/Pro (Pro/E) models, so all teams will be able to take advantage of it, not just the teams using Inventor.