Monday, December 11, 2006

Colorado Inventor Users Group

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

6:30PM – 9:00PM

We apologize for the late notice, but we think you’ll be pleased with this month’s topic. Join us once again at SVI Trucks in Loveland, CO for this month’s Users Group. Mark your calendars now to participate in an open discussion of ideas and technology. We’ve prepared two short presentations before we open the floor to fellow Inventor Users to share their experiences from the field.

Utilize Inventor 11’s adaptive Content to increase your productivity
  • Streamlined selection and placement workflow
  • Advanced AutoDrop capability
  • Automatic resizing as mouse moves over target geometry
  • Interactive adjustment of component lengths
Publish your own approved parts to the Content Center
  • Enhanced tools for editing and publishing content
  • Unified content library
  • Fully integrated with Design Accelerators
Inventor Q&A

As always, food and soft drinks will be provided for those who bring questions and experiences to share!

Come to discuss ideas, increase knowledge and get advice from Avatech’s experts and other Colorado Inventor users.

Please RSVP or get directions:
Call us at: 800-487-8729 or email us
Rob Johnston:
rob.johnston@avatech.com
Jared Drennen: jared.drennen@avatech.com

Thursday, December 07, 2006

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

Autodesk Labs has recently posted updates to a couple of utilities that I think you should check out.

Project Freewheel allows the posting of DWF files to an Autodesk website and allows you to send a link to a client or other party you would like to have view the DWF file, without requiring them to download and install the DWF Viewer. Be careful, we don't know how well protected this site is and proprietary information may be vulnerable!

Vault Mirror will allow users of Vault 5 or Productstream 5 to create a read-only mirror of the files and directory structure in an ADMS Vault, as seen from Vault Explorer. Used with Task Scheduler, Vault Mirror can create remote copies of the up-to-date Vault file tree. An example where this would be useful is when you have CAM programmers who need access to the Inventor models, but do not have an Autodesk product (nor Vault) installed on their machines.

As with anything at Autodesk Labs, these utilities is not supported by Autodesk and should be seen as "Use At Your Own Risk" utilities.

Check them out at:
Autodesk Labs


LATEST SERVICE PACKS:

Autodesk® Design Review 2007 – Service Pack 1
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=8269645&linkID=4083878

For those of you who weren't aware, Autodesk rebranded DWF Composer to Design Review 2007. Design Review 2007, like DWF Composer before it, allows for the Redlining / Markup of DWF files to capture change information electronically.