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Dear [customer name],
Welcome to the August issue of Manufacturing News, the newsletter designed for professionals in mechanical engineering, engineering design, process engineering and electrical engineering.
In this issue we have some great tips & tricks along with some great examples of what customers are doing to drive their businesses further by accelerating their ideas.
As with all our newsletters, if you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to sapac.mktg@autodesk.com.
Happy reading!
Manufacturing News Editorial Team
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Community
Manufacturing Community Portal
Have you visited the Autodesk Manufacturing Community Portal yet? Launched on March 13th, the site is an ever-growing resource of information for the manufacturing community.
Since its launch, the site has had over 93,000 page views, and plenty of user-submitted content. It's being updated weekly with fresh articles, industry news abstracts, blog posts and featured resources and members.
To date, the most popular functionality on the site is the ability to share components with members all over the globe.
One user stated, "I appreciate the opportunity to participate in Autodesk's new (Manufacturing Community) portal. I think this site has great potential for all manufacturing customers, and I'm glad that Autodesk has taken an active step in providing a common location for user-generated content." - John Stacey, Metso Minerals
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Focus on
All new AutoCAD Electrical "Screencast" is here!
Hosted by industry experts and Autodesk employees Shellie Smith and Nate Holt, this screencast provides a great overview of AutoCAD Electrical.
If you are designing electrical control systems using AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT, then you will find this an invaluable source of information.
The new screencast is available "on demand" which means you can access it around the clock.
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Tips and Techniques
Tip 1 - New Inventor Podcast! The one stop pod for all things Inventor!
One of this issue's tips & tricks come in the form of a Podcast. In fact, this is the "first official Inventor Podcast". In less than 12 minutes you can learn, Inventor tips, latest CAD news and events coming to a city near you!
Tip 2 - Hide Sketch Dimensions
Posted to Manufacturing Community Portal by Garin Gardiner
Have you ever been working on a design with lots of sketches and before no time you could hardly see anything due to all the dimensions on each sketch? If so you might not have seen the option to turn off dimensions per sketch in the browser tree.
In the browser select a sketch and right click on it (make sure you aren't in the sketch mode) and you will see an option to turn off dimensions for that sketch.
Tip 3 - Creating Lofted Solid Bodies with Inventor v11
Rob Stoklosa of Avatech illustrates the new lofting and G2 surfacing capabilities help you get the most out of your AutoCAD and DXF files.
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General News
Bringing Engineering Knowledge to the Point of Sale - Introducing Autodesk Intent
In today's manufacturing environment, companies are under constant
pressure to accelerate product development cycles and introduce new &
innovative products whilst staying ahead of the competition.
By efficiently managing your development rules, processes and databases,
your company can shorten its development cycles and get your products to
market faster. Autodesk Intent is a knowledge and rules -based solution
that enables companies to capture, manage and re-use their most valuable
asset - their knowledge and experience. Product development and process
rules are then made easily accessible to the organisation's supply
chain.
Autodesk Intent provides an enterprise wide solution to bring all this
information together whilst easily integrating with your CAD authoring
tools for 2D schematics and 3D models and external engineering
applications.
Engineering-intensive processes are streamlined, compressing sales
cycles and simplifying order management and fulfilment. The result? A
transfer of knowledge from your own expert-level resources to the point
of sale eliminating bottlenecks, increasing responsiveness,
accelerating your time to market and reducing your skill shortage
problems.
Autodesk Intent applications can be used by sales teams, distributors,
manufacturing, order management personnel, product engineers, and
customers over the internet.
To find out more about Autodesk Intent, please click here to provide us with your details so an Autodesk representative can contact you.
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Subscription News
Have you registered to use the Autodesk Subscription Centre?
The Autodesk subscription centre is an online application available only to Autodesk Subscription customers. This website provides great tools to help you easily administer & manage your subscription contract. It also assists with simplifying licence management and reporting to boost your productivity.
The Subscription Centre includes a variety of exclusive community features such as web support, interactive e-learning to increase your skills and webcasts that you can attend at your own leisure.
To register for access to the subscription centre, please visit the Subscription Centre www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin or email us at ap.subscriptions@autodesk.com for your login.
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Customer Success
Hytrol Deploys Comprehensive Autodesk Manufacturing Solution
Learn how a major manufacturer of conveyors, conveying systems, and conveyor accessories accelerated their ideas using engineering-to-order.
"By implementing the Autodesk manufacturing solution, we will enable our network of more than 600 sales reps across 80 distributors to enter real-time engineer-to-order sales in the field," said Stuart Shaw, manager of information systems at Hytrol Conveyor Company.
"Autodesk Intent was a no-brainer for us, as it had everything we needed for ETO -- functionality that would have taken two to three times as long to write ourselves. With Autodesk Inventor, we get the optimal solution for designing in 3D while leveraging our existing investments in 2D. We couldn't be more pleased with our relationship with Autodesk, as they've consistently demonstrated an interest in our business."
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Promotions
Calling all AutoCAD LT® users in Australia & New Zealand.
Save up to 60%* when moving to a general design or industry product designed for you - offer ends October 15th, 2006 or while stocks last. Visit www.autodesk.com.au/ltoffer for details. * Terms & conditions apply.
Autodesk Inventor® Series to Inventor® Professional - Exclusive offer for all Australian & New Zealand customers.
You've already made the move to 3D. You've taken advantage of all that Autodesk Inventor has to offer, by getting the best of both worlds with 2D and 3D design tools in one package. If you're ready to create routed systems and validate designs, now is the time to discover how Autodesk Inventor Professional can make you even more productive, while returning true value to your bottom line. Visit www.autodesk.com.au/inventoroffer to find out how your organisation can benefit from using Autodesk Inventor® Professional 11.
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Industry events
National Manufacturing Week - 30 May - 2 June
National Manufacturing Week (NMW) 2006, held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from May 30 to June 2, has cemented its position as Australia's leading manufacturing technology exhibition.
With more than 12,000 trade visitors across four days, NMW 2006 has been hailed as the most successful Sydney manufacturing exhibition yet held.
Autodesk Australia showcased Inventor 11, AutoCAD Electrical 2007 & AutoCAD Mechanical 2007 at the annual event.
Watch this space on NMW 2007!
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