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Project Twitch is a radical new trial technology that enables users to run full sessions of CAD software in a browser.

Autodesk Labs has quietly released Project Twitch, a radical new trial technology. The software enables users to run full sessions of AutoCAD 2011, Revit Architecture 2011, Inventor 2011 and  soon Maya, over a web connection, never having installed the application on their home machine. We see the technology leading to Autodesk offering design tools on demand, as a service.

Unfortunately there are some limitations to this trial at the moment. Due to the need for Internet bandwidth, the trial is only open to those that live within 1,000 miles of San Francisco, where the servers running the applications reside. Also you need to have a connection that is capable of a sustained 5Mb/s. Finally, the trial system can only run 25-50 users simultaneously, so there’s a very finite number of places at any one time and so far it’s been extremely busy. Having tried to break in from Europe and failed, we asked our San Franciscan friend and colleague, Kenneth Wong to have a go. For the first few days the servers were swamped and when he did manage to connect, it decided he didn’t have enough bandwidth!

Essentially Autodesk is using some software trickery to run these big applications over the web. The applications reside on a server and the screen information is compressed and squirted down the Internet to the CAD user, where it’s decompressed instantly. Meanwhile, the mouse and keyboard instructions are sent the other way to drive the remotely hosted software. The only work the user’s computer does is display the web browser. The choke point is the Internet bandwidth which has to deliver the application’s display as if it were running on the local machine.

Should Autodesk  master this technology it could have a far reaching impact on how we purchase and use our Autodesk tools. Usage could be paid for by the hour, workstations would not be required at the user end (as all the grunt would be delivered  by the remotely hosted server) and it could even be even possible to run a Revit session on something as low-powered as an iPod Touch - although screen size would be a bit of an issue!

But don’t throw your workstation away just yet. It’s early days, but this is a radical experiment. Regular readers will recognise that in the last issue we suggested  that CAD over the web was a possibility, we just didn’t know it was going to  be this imminent!
So for those who will be visiting San Francisco and want to use AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor or Maya for free, visit the Labs website, download the applet and try to connect around 4am.

    
labs.autodesk.com/technologies/trials

Autodesk Inventor® Professional 2011

Inventor Professional provides specialised design capabilities to create routed systems with tube and pipe or wire and cable. Its integrated FEA functionality from ANSYS provides part validation. Dynamic simulation capabilities provide the ability to see how mechanisms perform under real world conditions with varying loads, friction characteristics and dynamic components.

Autodesk Inventor® Simulation Suite 2010

Create quality products first time

Autodesk Inventor® Professional Simulation provides integrated FEA functionality from ANSYS for part validation. Dynamic simulation capabilities provide the ability to see how mechanisms perform under real world conditions with varying loads, friction characteristics and dynamic components such as springs and dampers.

Autodesk Inventor® Routed Systems Suite 2010

Deliver the design in less time

Autodesk Inventor® Pro Routed Systems provides specialised design capabilities to create routed systems with tube, pipe or wire and cable. The IDF import functionality ensures that your PCB assemblies easily fit in your designs and tube and pipe runs will be accurate.

Autodesk Inventor® Suite 2010

You no longer have to choose between 2D and 3D

You no longer have to choose between 2D and 3D. Autodesk Inventor® Series gives you the right tool for the job. Autodesk Inventor® software for 2D and 3D design and documentation, AutoCAD® Mechanical for 2D drafting and detailing and Autodesk® Vault for data management: an integrated design solution that enables you to create production-ready drawings faster and more accurately. Autodesk Inventor Series gives you the best of both worlds and offers a flexible, risk-free path to 3D. No wonder it’s the best-selling 3D design software on the market.

Click here to download Inventor Suite 2010 Overview PDF

AutoCAD® Mechanical 2011

Produces significant gains over standard AutoCAD® software.

AutoCAD® Mechanical is a purpose-built 2D mechanical engineering design and draughting application that provides significant productivity gains over standard AutoCAD® software.

It includes standards-based libraries of parts and pre-drawn content for improving design accuracy and automates a variety of common tasks to save countless hours of design time. AutoCAD Mechanical provides the unique ability to detail and document native Autodesk Inventor® models and automatically updates the drawing when changes are made to the Autodesk Inventor model. Create more accurate drawings faster and dramatically increase drafting productivity with AutoCAD Mechanical.

Click here to download AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 Overview PDF

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10 reasons to move from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 PDF

AutoCAD® Electrical 2011

Created for electrical control designers by electrical control designers.

AutoCAD® Electrical is a 2D design solution created for electrical control designers by electrical control designers. This AutoCAD-based application automates the tedious task of creating ladder drawings by simply reading an Excel spreadsheet.

It tracks all wire numbers and component tags and cross references coil and contact information for increased drafting productivity. It generates automated reports, ranging from bills of materials to from-to wire lists, to eliminate the errors associated with manual reports. And it saves time by linking cable and harness information to Autodesk Inventor® Professional. AutoCAD Electrical is the only logical choice for an electrical control design application.

Click here to download AutoCAD Electrical 2011 Overview PDF

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Top 10 Reasons to Move from AutoCAD® to AutoCAD® Electrical

Autodesk® Showcase 2011


Save time and money by making design decisions on 3D digital prototypes.

Autodesk® Showcase® software creates accurate, realistic imagery from 3D digital design data, so you can clearly communicate form and brand character for your consumer products. Interactively present and review designs within the Autodesk Showcase environment, streamlining the design review process.

Autodesk Vault Manufacturing 2010

Provides advanced functionality to help design, engineering, and manufacturing departments collaborate and share digital prototyping information-shortening the design-to-manufacturing process

Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2011

Autodesk® Moldflow® Insight injection molding simulation software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, provides a complete set of advanced plastics engineering simulation tools for use on digital prototypes. Providing in-depth analysis and optimization of plastic parts and their associated molds, Moldflow Insight offers powerful functionality that can simulate the most advanced molding processes in use today.
Autodesk Moldflow Insight helps to simulate the filling and packing phases of the injection molding process, so you can better predict the flow behavior of plastic melts and achieve higher-quality manufacturing. Currently employed by some of the top manufacturers in the automotive, medical, consumer electronics, and packaging industries, Autdoesk Moldflow Insight reduces the need for physical prototypes and helps to make it possible for companies to get innovative products to market faster.

Click here to download Autodesk Moldflow Insight 2011 PDF

Autodesk Moldflow Adviser 2011

Autodesk® Moldflow® Adviser software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, provides easy-to-use tools that help you to simulate and optimize your part, mold, and tool designs long before manufacturing begins. By using a digital prototype to simulate the injection molding process, you can reduce the number of physical prototypes required to perfect a design and get your products to market faster.
By resolving and clearly communicating potential problems with the injection molding process, Autodesk Moldflow Adviser enables any designer or mold maker to confidently design plastic parts and injection molds.

Click here to download Autodesk Moldflow Adviser 2011 PDF

AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2011

A Specialized Solution for the Injection Mold Industry

Autodesk® Inventor® Tooling provides a comprehensive set of automated tools that leverage a digital prototype to quickly create and validate complete mold designs, reducing errors and improving mold performance.

Helps automate the design of injection molds for plastic parts. It offers all the core functionality of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2011 plus automation tools that helps you leverage a digital prototype to quickly create and validate complete mold designs.

Autodesk® Navisworks® 2011

Collaborate with the extended design team.

Autodesk® NavisWorks®  software solutions enable project design and building professionals to unite their contributions into a single, synchronized building information model. By enabling team members to reliably share, combine, review, and perfect detailed 3D design models of any size or format, Autodesk NavisWorks solutions are at the heart of your building information modeling (BIM) workflow.

Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage

Autodesk® NavisWorks® Manage software provides all the tools required for smooth-runningconstruction projects. NavisWorks Manage fuses seamless visualization of all types of models,precise replication of designs, simulation of4D construction schedules, and powerful clashdetection into one product, keeping all project stakeholders on the same digital page, whether they are creating, viewing, or reviewing 3D models.

Autodesk® Navisworks® Review

Autodesk® NavisWorks® Review software enables whole-project visualization of all types of models, regardless of format or file size. By creating a single, synchronized environment, all stakeholders can review and contribute to reduce waste, enhance quality, and improve design understanding.

Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate

Autodesk® NavisWorks® Simulate softwareprovides a powerful project review solution forprofessionals who do not require the clash detection capabilities in NavisWorks Manage. NavisWorks Simulate offers precise replication of designs and accurate modeling of 4D construction schedules, enabling previsualization of construction projects.

CAD/CAM/CAE SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS

ANSYS Mechanical Suite of Products

ANSYS, Inc. offers four product subsets under its Mechanical solutions covering a wide range of depth and breadth of capabilities.

ANSYS® Mechanical 

The ANSYS Mechanical product includes a full complement of nonlinear and linear elements, material laws ranging from metal to rubber and the most comprehensive set of solvers available. It can handle even the most complex assemblies––especially those involving nonlinear contact––and is the ideal choice for determining stresses, temperatures, displacements and contact pressure distributions on all your component and assembly designs. Plus, the ANSYS Mechanical software offers the added advantage of fundamental matrix coupled-field (or multiphysics) studies involving acoustic, piezoelectric, thermal/structural and thermal/electric analysis.

ANSYS® StructuralTM 

The ANSYS Structural product addresses the unique concerns of structural simulation, without the need for a lot of extra tools. The ANSYS Structural software provides all the power of ANSYS nonlinear structural capabilities––as well as all linear capabilities––in order to deliver the highestquality, most-reliable structural simulation results available.

ANSYS® ProfessionalTM

The ANSYS Professional software is an inexpensive, easy-to-use program for structural/thermal analysis projects. Containing the power of the industry’s leading simulation technology, the ANSYS Professional product gives users high-level simulation capability without the need for high-level expertise. It comes complete with a full contingent of linear elements, significant nonlinearities and the ability to solve complex assemblies––including shell-to-solid and the most requested set of solvers.

ANSYS DesignSpace

Analysis & Simulation for Autodesk Inventor Models

ANSYS DesignSpace is a powerful, yet easy-to-use simulation software package that gives product designers and engineers the power to conceptualize, design and validate all their ideas right on their desktops. Using Knowledge-Based Automation™, this streamlined, user-friendly simulation tool is based on the same powerful ANSYS technology that has been resolving challenging design issues for more than 32 years.

Using DesignSpace, product design teams will produce better products in less time with fewer field failures. DesignSpace gives designers and engineers the ability to easily perform real-world, step-by-step structural, thermal, dynamic, weight optimization, performance optimization, vibration mode and safety factor simulations on all their designs. DesignSpace also includes the industry's best Web-based Report Generator.

DesignSpace is fully associative with the latest versions of Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Mechanical Desktop. From single parts to complex and large assemblies, and even through to complete systems, DesignSpace turns 3-D CAD environments into a complete virtual product development system.

                                 

ANSYS DesignSpace - Product Guide

DesignSpace simulation functionality is organized into four different functionality bundles, additional Modules, CAD Plug-ins, and Kinematics connections that have been designed to meet the needs of particular groups of users. Below is a description of these bundles and a profile of the applications that these are best suited. You can click the hyperlink product name to see the feature detail of each bundle bundle below.

DesignSpace - Includes all of the functionality in DesignSpace Entra and adds simulation capability for assemblies utilizing automatic contact capability for rigid and sliding assemblies.

Additional functionality in DesignSpace:

Advanced Functionality - With the ANSYS Workbench environment, DesignSpace users can benefit from seamless interoperability between up-front and full-scale simulation. Once projects are started in DesignSpace, they can easily be saved and opened by a more advanced ANSYS product that contains the required simulation functionality like: nonlinear materials, harmonics, large deformation or advanced contact.

Add-on Modules

DesignXplorer - The DesignXplorer is an application for understanding the analysis response of parts and/or assemblies. By understanding the analysis response, DesignXplorer can be used to:

DesignXplorer uses parameters as its basic language. These parameters can come from various CAD Systems or from the analysis. Structural and thermal responses can be studied, quantified, and graphed. A multiplicity of robust designs may also be obtained by means of a Goals-Driven method of optimization.

DM (DesignModeler) - DM is a geometry tool that allows basic geometry to be created, but most importantly enables models to be modified for simulation purposes. These modification features include, surface creation from solids, spot weld applications, surface dividing and more.

Fatigue Module - Most parts fail over time due to fatigue. The DesignSpace fatigue module allows you extend your simulation to include the performance over the required product life. Innovative result tools make this module very easy to use and, the results are easy to interpret. Download a Fatigue White paper Here

CAE Templates - To meet the need of the advanced users, CAE Templates allows engineers to leverage their design work and, through the use of its templating capabilities, easily advance their design investigation to ANSYS, MSC/NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or in-house codes. CAE Templates also assists engineers in automating the set-up and posting of results from advanced analysis studies.

Multiple Geometry Interfaces - If your company uses multiple CAD systems, multiple geometry interfaces may be used with your DesignSpace products and will provide you with associative simulation for most major CAD packages. Most importantly, when working in a multi-CAD environment, DesignSpace maintains the same operational look, feel and capability. This will minimize your training effort and establish common simulation methods that will permit confident results

Kinematics Connections:

• Autodesk
• Autodesk® Inventor™ Professional
• Autodesk Inventor® Professional™ for Simulation
• Dynamic Designer

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The most powerful sheet metal CAD/CAM software

Our strength is in providing world class innovative solutions that give companies the software applications that are essential to design (2D & 3D), manufacture (Punching, Profiling, Nesting and Bending) and control production (cost estimation, process management) of sheet metal components and products.

Edgecam

The standard in intelligent solids based manufacturing

Edgecam is a market leading computer aided manufacturing (CAM) system. Capable of programming milling, turning and mill-turn machines, Edgecam combines unrivaled ease of use and sophisticated toolpath generation. Edgecam is a principal brand of the Planit group - recently ranked by CIMdata as the world's fastest growing CAM vendor, with most industrial users.

Edgecam is a complete CAM software solution for production machining and mold & die applications. With an extensive range of 2-5 Axis milling, turning and mill/turn strategies, seamless CAD integration and sophisticated automation tools, Edgecam is the only CAM system you'll ever need.

A 3D mouse redefines the way people work with 3D models and applications, introducing users to an easier, more balanced, two-handed work style. The pressure sensing controller becomes a virtual extension of you. Push, pull, twist or tilt to simultaneously pan, zoom and rotate the model or camera view.

3D mouse users report a more streamlined design process, reduced work-related fatigue and performance benefits including improved error detection and average productivity gains of 21%.