Get to market faster. Reduce product development costs. Drive greater product innovation. Minimize the inefficiencies, such as rework and the need to build multiple costly physical prototypes, which result from a disconnected product development process, with Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. From conceptual design to engineering, manufacturing, and the end-customer, Autodesk provides the interoperable tools that allow manufacturing, automotive, and transportation companies to connect their entire product development process through a single digital model, enabling them to compete and win.
3D Mechanical Design for Manufacturers
- AutoCAD Inventor 2011
- AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite 2010
- AutoCAD Inventor Routed Systems Suite 2010
- AutoCAD Inventor Simulation Suite 2010
- AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2010
- AutoCAD Inventor Publisher 2011
Conceptual-Industrial Design Software
2D Mechanical Design for Manufacturers
- AutoCAD Mechanical 2011
- AutoCAD 2011
- AutoCAD LT 2011
- AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite 2010
- AutoCAD Raster Design
Collaboration & Project Managment
Electrical Design
3D MECHANICAL DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk® Inventor® software takes manufacturers beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping by giving engineers a comprehensive and flexible set of tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling, visualization and documentation. With Inventor software, engineers can integrate 2D AutoCAD® drawings and 3D data into a single digital model, creating a virtual representation of the final product that enables them to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built. Digital Prototyping with Inventor software enables you to design, visualize, and simulate products digitally, helping you to build better products, reduce development costs, and get to market faster.
AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite 2010
Contains everything you need to produce, validate, and document complete 3D digital prototypes. It offers all core features of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 with the extended routed systems design, tooling creation, and simulation features.
AutoCAD Inventor Routed Systems Suite 2010
Offers all the core functionality of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 plus automated tools for designing routed systems, including complex tube and pipe runs as well as electrical cable and harness design.
AutoCAD Inventor Simulation Suite 2010
Includes all the core functionality of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 plus motion simulation and stress analysis. This makes it easier to predict how the design will work under real-world conditions before the product is built.
AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2010
Helps automate the design of injection molds for plastic parts. It offers all the core functionality of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 plus automation tools that helps you leverage a digital prototype to quickly create and validate complete mold designs.
Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2011
Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher is easy-to-use software for creating compelling product documentation, enabling manufacturers to provide their customers with clearer and more comprehensive technical instructions. Inventor Publisher extends the reach of Digital Prototyping to product documentation teams, giving non-CAD users the ability to leverage the same digital model used in the design-to-manufacturing process to create assembly instructions, operating procedures, repair instructions, and more. With associative updates based on changes to the Autodesk Inventor software 3D design model, Inventor Publisher helps documentation teams start working earlier in the product development process, helping reduce rework and shorten time to market.
2D MECHANICAL DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURERS
AutoCAD® Mechanical is AutoCAD® software for manufacturing, purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. It includes all the functionality of AutoCAD, a world leader in CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating mechanical engineering tasks, such as generating machine components, dimensioning, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Mechanical provides a library of more than 700,000 standard parts, supports multiple international design standards, and enables users to detail and document digital prototypes created in Autodesk® Inventor® software. AutoCAD Mechanical offers engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend time innovating rather than drafting.
Power your design projects from concept through completion with AutoCAD® 2011 software. Your ideas can take shape with greater clarity and accuracy than ever before, thanks to new surface modeling tools and point cloud support. New inferred constraints capabilities make working with parametrics easier, and updated productivity tools help you deliver final design documentation faster than ever. And major updates to materials and surfaces help you communicate design intent with the impact you demand. With these and many other new capabilities you’ve been asking for, AutoCAD® 2011 helps you take design and documentation further. More
AutoCAD LT® software is a leader in 2D drafting productivity and data reliability. Now, new features in AutoCAD LT 2011 bring you more options for precise control of your 2D drawings. Improve the appearance of your drawings with transparent objects and layers, and manage object visibility by hiding or isolating objects, independent of layer. Create and edit hatches faster with easier access to hatch tools. New multifunctional grips for polylines provide valuable flexibility and control during editing. The professional choice in 2D drafting software now offers even more ways to take control of your drawing productivity.
AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor LT™ software is being packaged with AutoCAD LT® software – the most widely used 2D drafting solution in the world – within the AutoCAD® Inventor LT™ Suite 2010. The AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite delivers affordable and attainable 2D and 3D capabilities that boost your productivity and competitiveness. The AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite helps manufacturers compete more effectively by adding the benefits of 3D partmodeling to their development process with the combination of Autodesk Inventor LT and AutoCAD LT software.
Use AutoCAD® Raster Design software with AutoCAD® software, and applications based on AutoCAD to unlock and extend the value of existing design information. Make the most of scanned engineering drawings and plans with raster-to-vector, raster editing, and raster data preparation capabilities. Increase productivity; improve decision making and presentations; and enhance, preserve, and maintain valuable raster assets.
ELECTRICAL DESIGN
AutoCAD® Electrical is AutoCAD® software for controls designers, purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems. It contains all the functionality of AutoCAD, the world’s leading CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as building circuits, numbering wires, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Electrical provides a library of more than 650,000 electrical symbols and components, includes real-time error checking, and enables electrical and mechanical teams to collaborate on digital prototypes built with Autodesk® Inventor® software. AutoCAD Electrical offers control engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend more time innovating.
CONCEPTUAL-INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Autodesk® Alias® Design software, part of the Autodesk Solution for Digital Prototyping, is for consumer product designers who control the entire design process—from ideation to the final surfaces that are passed to engineering. It enables designers to rapidly develop and communicate product design concepts using sketches, illustrations, photorealistic renderings, and animations.
Bring ideas into focus with AutoCAD® Visualization Suite software, helping you design, document, and powerfully visualize your ideas. Create compelling designs, animations, and photorealistic imagery with AutoCAD®, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design, and Autodesk® Showcase® software all delivered in a single, comprehensive package. Explore ideas with powerful modeling tools, visualize your designs in highly realistic environments, and create final documentation faster with tools that minimize repetitive tasks and help speed your time to completion.
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010 software extends the building information modeling (BIM) workflow by enabling architects, designers, and visualization specialists to explore, validate and communicate their creative ideas – from digital prototypes to cinema-quality visualizations. It delivers powerful lighting analysis technology, advanced rendering capabilities, and digital continuity with the AutoCAD® and Revit® software families of products.
Autodesk® Showcase® design visualization software facilitates informed decision making on digital prototypes. With integrated raytracing, state of the art materials and an easy to use interface, Showcase simplifies and accelerates the task of creating accurate, highly realistic imagery from 3D CAD data to convey form and create environmental context to communicate brand character.
Autodesk® SketchBook Pro is a paint and drawing application designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and Tablet PCs. SketchBook Pro offers industry-leading sketching tools and delivers them through a streamlined user interface that is so fast and intuitive that a new user can be productive within minutes.
Autodesk Algor Simulation 2011
Autodesk® Algor® Simulation software provides a broad range of mechanical simulation tools to help designers and engineers make critical decisions earlier in the design process. With extensive finite element modeling tools and built-in material libraries, you can study initial design intent and accurately simulate the behavior of a digital prototype. Autodesk Algor Simulation software supports direct, associative data exchange with most CAD software tools, so you can make iterative design changes without redefining simulation data. By helping you predict product performance, including situations in which multiple physical factors interact simultaneously, Autodesk Algor Simulation software helps you validate and optimize designs before manufacturing.
Autodesk® Combustion® software is an all-in-one professional compositing application designed to meet the needs of the world's most demanding digital artists. Bring your imagination to life and get your work done faster with the easy-to-use Combustion interface, efficient workflow, and extensive 3D graphics toolset.
Mental Ray® Standalone 3D rendering software is a high-performance ray-trace render engine for generating imagery ranging from stylized to photorealistic. Although mental ray 3D rendering technology is integrated in Autodesk® applications such as Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design, Autodesk® Softimage®, Autodesk® Revit®, and Autodesk® ImageStudio software, the stand-alone version is best suited for large volume rendering projects and is available for 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design, Maya, and Softimage.
COLLABORATION & PROJECT MANAGMENT
Autodesk Streamline® on-demand project management service helps you handle the process of collaborating with partners outside your organization, providing a single online location for storing, managing, and controlling project documents. With its intuitive interface, your extended team can work productively with customers and suppliers outside your firewall to get designs approved in less time.
The real-time navigation features of Autodesk® Navisworks® software for manufacturing, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, help you to experience your factory before it is built. You can combine product, tooling, fixture, layout, and facilities data from different CAD systems and create a single 3D digital model of your factory. Then, analyze the model to check for collisions, identify space constraints, and create 4D simulations of your factory models that include the installation of equipment on the factory floor . Publish the digital factory model in a highly detailed but lightweight format and share it with suppliers and partners to give all stakeholders complete access to the information.
Autodesk® DirectConnect software enables you to you exchange industrial design data efficiently with engineers using CAD products. The result is a fluid digital design workflow that eliminates rework, saves time, and preserves your design intent. You don’t need a DirectConnect translator to exchange industrial design data with mechanical design and engineering products from Autodesk, such as Autodesk® Inventor® software. You can use the DWG™ file format.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Help maximize return on your company’s investment in design data by driving design reuse with the Autodesk® Vault product line. The product family consists of Autodesk® Vault, Autodesk® Vault Workgroup, Autodesk® Vault Collaboration, and Autodesk® Vault Professional. The Vault product family helps design and engineering workgroups manage the creation, simulation, and documentation processes. Users can reduce time organizing models and files, manage change processes to avoid costly mistakes, and more efficiently release and revise designs. The data management software can be deployed as a standard configuration or tailored to unique requirements, enabling users to become productive more quickly, providing a faster return on investment.
