Autodesk and FRC 2016

[sanddrag]

Hi Phil,

While we successfully got Inventor 2016 R3 installed through our school's IT department, which I'm assuming has some sort of educational subscription account, it looks like R3 is not available on student and educator accounts, or through the Application Manager for Inventor that was installed through a student or educator account.

If Autodesk wants people to adopt its "flagship" cloud services such as A360, it only seems natural to offer students and educators the R3 release of Inventor 2016, which includes Connected Design with A360.

Can you look into how we can go about getting R3 for home use, and get back to us?

Thanks.

[inventor_phild]

I have emailed the folks in Autodesk Education to see what can done. Should have an answer early next week.

[NatePSmith]

Hi Phil,
I am currently using inventor HSM 2016 to generate complex 3d and 2d toolpath operations. some of the cutters i am using for these toolpaths are a non-centercut type tool. Does Inventor HSM have any easy support for these types of operations to force a ramp into the material? I have been having to fudge the settings to force a ramp. If it does not, I would recommend that sort of setting as an improvement to the package. The ability to ensure any tool does not plunge into the work piece on any operation you do as a simple setting in the toolpath dialogue would be a lot simpler than what im currently doing.

Cheers
Nate Smith

[inventor_phild]

Nate,

I commented on HSM 2016 issues in a previous thread and the advice is to post to the Autodesk HSM forum since the Autodesk experts review the comments.

I will track down the link for you.

[inventor_phild]

Originally Posted by inventor_phild

Nate,

I commented on HSM 2016 issues in a previous thread and the advice is to post to the Autodesk HSM forum since the Autodesk experts review the comments.

I will track down the link for you.

Here it is.

https://camforum.autodesk.com/index.php?board=3.0