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- Autodesk Expands Support for Mac Users!
- Join the Manufacturing Community

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- Autodesk Unveils Inventor Fusion Technology to Help Engineers Speed Time to Market - Preview Now Available to Download*
*Singapore only
- Industry experts Lynn Allen & Nigel Davies on How to Survive & Thrive During the Down Economy

Tips & Techniques

- Optimising Stress Analysis Calculations in Autodesk Inventor 2010
- Overkill Can Be a Good Thing
- A PDF Wish Comes True!
- Autodesk Inventor Skill Builders

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- Get Trained At Your Own Pace With e-Learning

Customer Success

- Syncromatics - Inventor of the Month, June 2009
- RND Automation & Engineering Delivers Top Quality on Time
- Ulysse Nardin Stays Competitive with Digital Prototyping

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Welcome to the July 2009 issue of Manufacturing News, the newsletter designed especially for professionals in mechanical engineering, engineering design, process engineering and electrical engineering.

In this issue, find out how customers can now run their favourite Mac applications and Autodesk applications on the same computer! Learn how you could tap and harness the power of the community, get the free download of Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion Technology Preview and get the industry experts’ take on how CAD Managers can overcome the challenges in the current economy. As always, we'll share our bi-monthly dose of tips and tricks as well as showcase some wonderful success stories on how our customers use our solutions to design, visualise and simulate their projects to an amazing degree of sophistication.

If you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to keepintouch@autodesk.com.

Happy Reading!

The Manufacturing News Editorial Team

Autodesk Expands Support for Mac Users!

Autodesk is now officially supporting Apple Boot Camp, a component of the Mac OSX operating system that enables customers to run Windows on their Apple Hardware, for users of AutoCAD® 2010 software, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010 software, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010 software, Autodesk® Inventor® 2010 software, Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010 software, Autodesk® Revit®Structure 2010 software and Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2010 software.

With Autodesk support for Boot Camp, customers can now run their favourite Mac applications and Autodesk applications on the same computer. Read more.

Join the Manufacturing Community

The Manufacturing Community website is designed to help professionals in the manufacturing industry access time-saving engineering models and parts catalogs, learn productivity tips from experts and connect with peers. It serves to enable users to stay in touch with other industry professionals, keep up-to-date with latest industry developments and share best practices, so engineers around the world can more rapidly realise their ideas. Registration is free. Join now.

Autodesk Unveils Inventor Fusion Technology to Help Engineers Speed Time to Market - Preview Now Available to Download*

Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion Technology Preview is innovative, new Digital Prototyping technology that's changing the way people work with 3D mechanical design software. It is ideal for companies that need to make rapid, history-free design changes to a model through direct manipulation but also have many years worth of features and history-based data and design intent that they need to access, use and maintain. Download today.
*Singapore only

Industry Experts Lynn Allen and Nigel Davies Advise on How to Survive and Thrive During the Down Economy

Read this in the CAD Manager's Newsletter on Cadalyst, where some recommendations for CAD managers on how to deal with the downturn were given by industry experts.

Tip 1: Optimising Stress Analysis Calculations in Autodesk Inventor 2010

This video presentation explains a couple of techniques to optimise your assembly designs when using the Stress Analysis module that can be found in the Inventor Simulation 2010 and Inventor Professional 2010 products. View it now.

Tip 2: Overkill Can Be a Good Thing

The Express Tool called Overkill has been part of AutoCAD for years and years and can work wonders if your file is full of duplicate objects. In this week's AutoCAD video tip from Cadalyst, Autodesk Technical Evangelist Lynn Allen guides you through the steps toward a cleaner drawing. Check it out now.

Tip 3: A PDF Wish Comes True!

Going from AutoCAD DWG to PDF has never been easier, thanks to improvements in version 2010. This capability should make it easier when dealing with others who don't have AutoCAD and insist in dealing with PDFs. Find out how.

Tip 4: Autodesk Inventor Skill Builders

Autodesk publishes Skill Builders to help you continue learning about Autodesk Inventor software in between our annual releases. Many Inventor Skill Builders include a data set and step-by-step instructions similar to Inventor tutorials. Others include animations and images that demonstrate a feature or workflow. Learn how.

Get Trained At Your Own Pace With e-Learning

Only for subscription customers. The online training catalogue provides a variety of learning experiences. Featuring self-paced lessons that are a quick and convenient way to learn the Autodesk suite of Manufacturing solutions. Each lesson usually takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete and includes hands-on exercises so you can practise what you've learned.

To get access to the training catalogue, please visit the Subscription Center www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin.

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Syncromatics - Inventor of the Month, June 2009

Autodesk has named Syncromatics, a leading provider of real-time tracking and intelligent transportation systems for buses and shuttles, as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for June 2009. Syncromatics used Autodesk Inventor software to develop its solar-powered bus shelter signs which deliver information to bus riders about everything from when the next bus is going to arrive, to how many passengers are on the next bus. Read the Autdesk press release here or view an interview with Synchromatics.

RND Automation & Engineering Delivers Top Quality on Time

Find out how RND, when armed with Autodesk Inventor software and Digital Prototyping, was able to:

• Design, engineer, test, and manufacture the machine in less than one year
• Cut material waste by animating the machine’s robots in operation
• Minimise production downtime on the factory floor to only 4 days

Ulysse Nardin Stays Competitive with Digital Prototyping

Ulysse Nardin is one of the world’s premier makers of fine mechanical watches. But in today’s competitive marketplace, even companies like Ulysse Nardin must accelerate time-to-market while controlling costs. Read on to see how by implementing the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, Ulysse Nardin has been able to:

• Cut product development cycles in half
• Produce one physical prototype instead of three
• Save as much as US$30,000 per new watch by producing fewer prototypes
• Create photorealistic images of watches for marketing before production

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