The new family of Autodesk 2008 Manufacturing solutions helps you become more efficient and productive, and most importantly, reduce wastage and unnecessary costs. Solutions such as Autodesk® Inventor™ 2008 bring digital prototyping and Design-to-Manufacturing capabilities to your operations, allowing you to drastically simplify your manufacturing processes and cut wastage – allowing you to save the environment and yet make better bottom lines – all without sacrificing innovation.

In this issue, you’ll learn more about the new family of Autodesk 2008 Manufacturing solutions, tips & tricks and best practices from your peers and experts.

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Manufacturing News Editorial Team

Community
Manufacturing Community Portal Features Community News & Content:
Parametric Modelling Using Autodesk Inventor
Mechanical design engineer James P. LoFaso has written a book for beginning software users entitled Parametric Modelling Using Autodesk Inventor. Learn more about this resource.

DWF community online resource centre
Top organisations worldwide are harnessing the power of DWF™ technology to extend design information beyond the initial design teams. With extensive 2D and 3D design collaboration capabilities, DWF is the choice for critical design-related manufacturing, architecture, building, facilities, and infrastructure workflows. The DWF resource centre contains information on utilities, tools and Plug-Ins, blogs and discussions and user submitted tips and tricks.

Click here to enter the DWF world…

Focus On
Introducing the new 2008 Family of Products
Today, everyone is facing more risks, complexities and competitive pressures than ever before. That’s why you need the ability to innovate, visualise and simulate in the digital world before creating anything in the real one. In fact, you need to experience your next project before it’s real. Learn how our new 2008 industry-specific software helps you analyse the real-world performance of your designs. All before you build a thing.

The exciting new 2008 Family of Products include:

• Autodesk Inventor 2008
• AutoCAD® Electrical
• AutoCAD® Mechanical
• Autodesk Alias Studio
• Autodesk ImageStudio
• Autodesk Streamline
• Autodesk PortfolioWall
• Autodesk Showcase
• Autodesk Design Review 2008

Tips and Techniques
Tip 1: Need to change a Vault library part?
Posted to Manufacturing Community Portal by Ron Smith

Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Vault.

Tip 2: 2D to 3D Tool for Autodesk Inventor
Email your comments about this tool to Autodesk labs

Download the tool for Autodesk Inventor 11.

Tip 3: Using face splits to control welds
Posted to the Manufacturing community portal by Dennis Jeffrey

Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Inventor

Hot Fix
Inventor Hot Issue
Cannot create or edit text in IDW files after Microsoft Hotfix KB918118 installation
Issue:
After you applied Microsoft Hotfix KB918118, you noticed that you cannot create or edit text in IDW files.
Solution:
To work around this issue, uninstall the hotfix.

General News
Autodesk Transforms Product Development Process with Manufacturing Solution Updates

…offering a complete approach to digital prototyping that allows manufacturers to cost-effectively…and easy to do more digital prototyping. This allows them to bring…

Subscription News
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Customer Success
March 2007 Inventor of the Month
BigToys, Inc, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly commercial playground equipment, has been named as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for March 2007. For nearly 35 years, BigToys has earned a reputation as a manufacturer of high-quality commercial playground equipment for children. With an emphasis on caring for the environment as much as children, BigToys continues its role as a leader in the playground equipment industry by promoting environmental awareness and responsible stewardship of natural resources.

Industry Events
ASEAN Solution Day
Experience the possibilities at ASEAN Solution Day in Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam, and join Lynn Allen, Autodesk Technical Evangelist and learn how the new and enhanced tools make AutoCAD 2008 a designer’s dream.

Singapore Manufacturing Conference
Productivity has never been more important. Today, you need to see and experiment with your next project before it’s real. Now you can discover how to take your designs to the next level with the new 2008 Autodesk design-to-manufacturing solutions.