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Dear [first name],
Welcome to the April 2008 issue of Manufacturing News, the newsletter designed especially for professionals in mechanical engineering, engineering design, process engineering and electrical engineering.
In this issue, we have insights into how you can ‘recession-proof’ your business as well as the launch of our 2nd Design Competition in Malaysia. You’ll also find out more on the new 2009 software releases and the launch of Inventor User Community site. As always, we’ll share our usual dose of Tips and Tricks for you; and we showcase our Autodesk Inventor of the month winners for February 2008 – OPEX Corporation.
If you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to asean.marketing@mail.autodesk.com.
Happy Reading!
The Manufacturing News Editorial Team
Community
A group of passionate Inventor users in Malaysia have launched a user community site called Inventor Planet. They aim to support and share their experiences on working with Inventor with other users.
Take a look at their site
and all you need to do is register to get access to their libraries, tips & forum topics. Have fun!
The enhanced Drawing Manager in Inventor 2009 has added several powerful tools that’ll enable you to convey more meaningful information to other designers and manufacturing partners, while speeding the process of detailing considerably.
Click to uncover these exciting new features of Inventor 2009.
Focus on
Is there a secret to so-called "recession-proofing" in the manufacturing industry? Can you still improve performance, products and productivity when the going gets tough? It’s a resounding YES to both questions and you can find out how you to do so
.
Autodesk 2009 New Releases
See the new 2009 software available for the manufacturing industry…With Autodesk 2009 software, you can see how Autodesk visualisation and simulation technology can help you gain a competitive advantage by allowing you to experience your next project in a 3D digital modelling environment. Then, analyse your design’s real-world performance to save time, money, and resources.
Tips and Techniques
Now you can customise commands in AutoCAD to help reduce tedious repetition.
Find out more here.
The handy tip is provided by Lynn Allen a Cadalyst columnist and worldwide Autodesk Technical Evangelist with over 20 years of experience with Autodesk software.
Posted by Magenta Academy on the Alias Design Community site.
Click to learn how to do this.
A simple way to quickly create tool palettes and edit their properties in bulk. This tip works for all Auto-CAD based products.
Click
to learn how to do this.
General News
Autodesk, together with the Department of Polytechnic & Community College Education (EPCCE), Ministry of Higher Education and Design Technology Alliance (M) Sdn Bhd are pleased to announce its 2nd Autodesk Design Competition offered to the education sector. This competition is sponsored by HP and valid only in Malaysia.
For the Manufacturing Category, the challenge is for participants to design a playground with educational elements that is in sync with the rural area. The design must fit the rural development theme and take into consideration the value of traditional activities integrated into a modern design playground. Find out more here.
Subscription News
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To access this catalogue, please visit the Subscription Centre
.
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Customer Success
Inventor of the Month for February 2008 - OPEX Corporation
OPEX Corporation (OPEX), a recognised global technology leader in high-speed mailroom automation equipment, has been named as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for February 2008. OPEX relied on the Autodesk Inventor product family to help design its innovative Mail Matrix, a mail sorting solution that redefines the capabilities, functionality and performance of the mailroom.
Click
to find out how Digital Prototyping helped OPEX reduce physical prototypes required to bring its revolutionary mail sorting system to production.
Industry Events
It’s quite hard to contain the excitement on the future of MCAD products after the showcase at Autodesk World Press Day. Here’s an article that sums up our offering for Digital Prototyping which will allow users to do a number of things with the 3D model that were not possible before, such as simulation, analysis, and repurposing the 3D design data.
Find out more here.
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