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Software => Software => Topic started by: Elijah5647 on July 03, 2011, 02:24:16 AM

Title: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Elijah5647 on July 03, 2011, 02:24:16 AM

For all you students out there  ;)
Autodesk is offering a 3 year trial for students on all of their software including Inventor which after using for just a week I highly recommend.
This is fantastic for anyone with a tiny budget such as myself

Cheers
Elijah

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: corrado33 on July 03, 2011, 07:25:09 AM

To save a bunch of people from googling, what does it do?

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: newInRobotics on July 03, 2011, 10:34:18 AM

Quote from: corrado33 on July 03, 2011, 07:25:09 AM

To save a bunch of people from googling, what does it do?

It's a CAD software, similar to SolidWorks, Autocad, CATIA, etc.

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Admin on July 03, 2011, 10:39:20 AM

It is the CAD software I used to design my ERP:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_ERP.shtml (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_ERP.shtml)

I made these videos with it:

ERP: Open Source Robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NzCJoTK7VY#)

Robot Suspension System Design (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebwofhAT4Ps#)

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: BANE on July 04, 2011, 10:25:19 AM

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Autodesk is offering a 3 year trial for students

what about 3ds?

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Elijah5647 on July 04, 2011, 03:54:25 PM

Yep the entire Autodesk suite is available ;D
If my hard drive had enough space I would get all of them

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: BANE on July 04, 2011, 04:02:49 PM

Im downloading 3ds right now :).  to save anyone whos interested a search http://students.autodesk.com/ (http://students.autodesk.com/)

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Elijah5647 on July 04, 2011, 04:11:30 PM

Yeah Inventor took an hour and a half to download (3 Gb) and then at least 2 hours to install its over 10 gb of files.  :o

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Admin on July 04, 2011, 04:29:21 PM

Quote from: Elijah5647 on July 04, 2011, 04:11:30 PM

Yeah Inventor took an hour and a half to download (3 Gb) and then at least 2 hours to install its over 10 gb of files.  :o

Don't install Vault or AutoCAD 2D, you won't need that. That'll cut down many GBs.

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Elijah5647 on July 04, 2011, 04:35:39 PM

Yeah I didn't install vault but 2D I have found useful in the past for simple templates.  :)

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: Admin on July 04, 2011, 04:56:35 PM

Quote from: Elijah5647 on July 04, 2011, 04:35:39 PM

Yeah I didn't install vault but 2D I have found useful in the past for simple templates.  :)

AutoDesk Inventor 3D has a much nicer 2D plotting program. Go to File->New->Drawing, then place a 3D model in there.

Title: Re: Autodesk Inventor
Post by: wcmartin on July 24, 2011, 12:14:52 AM

I love this offer; I've been using a lot of Autodesk products because of it.  However, I never really see any companies using Inventor, usually Solidworks, which unfortunately is still pretty expensive for the student version.  Oh well, guess I'll keep trying to learn both.  Has anyone had any good experiences with the Autodesk CFD package?