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Dear [customer name],
Welcome to the October 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 great tips & tricks, a new Inventor Podcast, along with a fantastic example of what one New Zealand customer is doing to drive their business 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 anz.marketing@mail.autodesk.com.
Happy reading!
Manufacturing News Editorial Team
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Community
Manufacturing Community Portal
By becoming a member of the manufacturing community portal, you can stay current with industry information, grow your own network of contacts, plus take advantage many more resources.
Benefits of membership include access to:
- 3D content sharing: peer-to-peer and supplier content
- member discussions
- local events and blogs
- user-submitted tips, tricks, how-tos, and many other community resources
Membership is free to all Autodesk customers. Click here register now!
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Focus on
All new Inventor "Podcast" is here!
Hosted by industry expert and Autodesk employee Garin Gardiner, this podcast provides a great overview of Autodesk Inventor.
Listen to the results of the Inventor wish list, an interview with one of our product designers and the usual array of tips and tricks.
The new podcast is available "on demand" which means you can access it around the clock.
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Tips and Techniques
Tip 1 - Building Lighter Models
Posted to Manufacturing Community Portal by Garin Gardiner
Depending on what you are using various parts/assemblies for, you can often simplify them to optimise performance in larger assemblies. If you have parts that will be purchased rather than being manufactured, you can typically simplify them with fewer or simpler features.
Tip 2 - Is it really just a centre line command?
Posted to Manufacturing Community Portal by Andrew de Leon
Andrew de Leon provides a handy AutoCAD Mechanical tip on the centre line command. This handy tool forever removes the pain of creating centre lines - no more drawing a line, lengthening it for overshoots and changing layers.
Tip 3 - Edit Solid Bodies
Posted to Manufacturing Community Portal by Garin Gardiner
Have you ever imported a file from IGES, SAT or STEP and wanted to be able to edit it? Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Inventor®.
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General News
Save time & effort - visit the Inventor Supplier Content Centre
The Supplier Content Centre save time and effort by enabling customers to focus more on designing their own products – not wasting time modeling parts they purchase from vendors. The Supplier Content Centre has over 200,000 free ready-to-use parts.
With over 100 catalogues posted, there are thousands more Inventor customers, like you, who could grow their business with this type of on-line library.
Solutions for parts manufacturers
By creating a digital parts catalogue, parts manufacturers can boost their visibility to potential customers, provide part models in many different native CAD formats, and ultimately increase their own sales.
The parts manufacturer’s products are visible to the entire Autodesk Manufacturing Community through the Supplier Content Centre.
Over 11,000 Autodesk customers are taking advantage of this centre and know the value and productivity gains that the Supplier Content Centre brings to their business. Click here to find out how your business can take advantage of the Autodesk Supplier Content Centre.
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Subscription News
Introducing the NEW DWF Extension for Inventor® 11.
The Autodesk Inventor® 11 DWF Extension is now available for subscription customers only. This extension provides enhanced DWF publishing, security, and design review capabilities as well as additional collaboration capabilities such as assembly STL and JT file output.
Now you can more easily share 2D and 3D design information and technical documentation. With this new extension you can publish:
- Animations and assembly instructions from presentation files
- Positional representations and design views
- Structured or Parts-only BOM
- Active Level of Detail and FEA results
New security features include the ability to disable measure and print to prevent access and analysis by un-authorised downstream users. Control over viewing, printing, and measuring permissions protects valuable intellectual property and prevents reverse-engineering. Autodesk Inventor 11 DWF Extension accelerates the design review process by enabling "round-tripping."
Now engineers can easily incorporate Autodesk Design Review mark-ups directly into Inventor drawings and quickly send the incorporated changes back to the design reviewer for verification. Another extra bonus: Autodesk Inventor 11 DWF Extension includes the Service Pack 1 upgrades for the Autodesk Inventor 11 product family.
Autodesk Inventor 11 DWF Extension is available by download only at Autodesk Subscription Centre and it is available for the entire Autodesk Inventor 11 product family. To access the Extension please click: www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin
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Customer Success
Mactec Aerospace Takes Off with Double Year-Over-Year Growth
Learn how a New Zealand based ground support equipment manufacturer used a comprehensive Autodesk solution to Create, Manage, and Share designs to speed up design and manufacturing processes.
"Our ability to produce good quality designs in Inventor and easily reuse our design data with Autodesk Vault – which has resulted in both time reductions and cost savings – has been instrumental to our quick growth and speed to market" said Hamish Thompson, Design Manager at Mactec Aerospace International Ltd.
“We thrive on innovation — our first product was groundbreaking,” says Hamish Thompson. “By staying innovative we have been able to rapidly dominate the market.”
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Industry events
Autodesk University - Register NOW!
Autodesk University Annual User Conference and Exhibition
The Premier Autodesk Learning and Networking Event
We live in a time of rapid change. And the manufacturing industry is the engine that drives those changes around the world. At Autodesk University (AU), you not only improve your skills today but also learn about the trends and technologies that will drive change in the future.
AU classes and activities are designed to address the challenges faced by mechanical engineers and decision makers in the manufacturing project team. AU training empowers you with the tools and resources you need to be a catalyst of change in your organisation.
This is a once-a-year opportunity for you to gain practical skills, business contacts, and industry knowledge with which to achieve positive results for your company, your career, and the world we share.
Now in its 14th year, AU is wholly focused on helping you realise your ideas by becoming a true agent of change.
AU 2006 offers:
- Nearly 500 expert-led classes in an ideal learning environment
- Information about our 2007 family of solutions
- End-to-end design, visualisation, and collaboration solutions from Autodesk and industry partners
- Face-to-face meetings with leading developers and Autodesk staff and executives
- The collective wisdom of a community of peers and industry leaders
- And much more
Join your peers at the Manufacturing Campus at AU and learn new ways to change your ideas into reality. To register, visit the conference website: http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2006
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