LATEST SERVICE PACKS:

Here are the latest Service Packs for relevant Inventor 2009 products:

Autodesk Inventor 2009 (all versions) - Service Pack 1 Inventor 2009 SP1

AutoCAD Mechanical 2009 (all versions) - Service Pack 2 AutoCAD/M 2009 SP2

Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 2009 (all versions) - Service Pack 2 MDT 2009 SP2

Autodesk Design Review 2009 - Service Pack 1 Design Review 2009 SP1

And for relevant Inventor 2008 products:

Autodesk Inventor 2008 (all versions) - Service Pack 3 Inventor 2008 SP3

AutoCAD Mechanical 2008 (all versions) - Service Pack 2 AutoCAD/M 2008 SP2

Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 2008 (all versions) - Service Pack 2 MDT 2008 SP2

Check here often for additional listings of Service Packs as they are posted.

Mechanical Desktop Retirement

Autodesk has terminated development of Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® and will no longer release new versions of the product. This decision was made to allow Autodesk to focus on the development of the Autodesk® Inventor® and AutoCAD® Mechanical product lines.

As a result of this decision, Mechanical Desktop 2009 becomes the last version of the product to be made available.

Autodesk recognizes that our customers have created many Mechanical Desktop files containing their intellectual property. To protect this data, Autodesk is taking the following actions:
• In accordance with section 2.2.3 of the Subscription Terms and Conditions, Autodesk Support will continue to provide product support for Subscription customers for a period of no less than three years after the removal of Mechanical Desktop from the Inventor product line.
• Autodesk will continue to make Mechanical Desktop 2009 available for download with future releases of Inventor.
• Autodesk will continue to support the DWG Import wizard for Mechanical Desktop parts, assemblies and drawings.
• Despite anything to the contrary in our Subscription terms and conditions or our license agreement(s), Autodesk will allow customers the right to continue using earlier versions of Mechanical Desktop with Inventor releases.

For additional information, please contact Avatech Solutions, Inc.

Thank you for choosing Subscription for your Autodesk products.

Sincerely,
The Autodesk Subscription Team

Colorado Inventor Users Group
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 6:30 – 9:00pm

We are happy to host this month’s Users Group at our location here in the Denver Tech Center.
We will be hosting with a twist, because we are also offering the option of attending via the
Web.* Please mark your calendars now and keep this night available to participate in an open
discussion of ideas and technology.

• Representations in Inventor
Examine how View, Positional, and Level of Detail Representations can be used to your advantage
• Streamlining Tube and Pipe Design
Understand the tools available to significantly reduce the time it takes to create or edit tube and pipe runs
• Inventor Q&A

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

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

Please RSVP to: Rob Johnston

8101 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 200
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303.796.0204

* If you are interested in attending via the Web instead of in‐person, please email Rob for website and login information.

Autodesk® Inventor® 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack continues focus on user productivity!

The first Subscription Bonus Pack is now available featuring improvements to frequently used commands. In fact, three of our current AUGI Top 10 wish list items are provided along with many other productivity based improvements for part and assembly modeling to drawing creation. Tools included in the Bonus Pack will reduce the amount of picks and clicks as well as reduce editing steps which will delight our customers. Our subscription customers will be able to install these tools to their current Inventor 2009 after downloading a small file from the subscription portal and these same tools will be rolled into the next release of Inventor.

What’s in it?

Drawing Manager Tools

· Arrange dimensions
· Dimension Selection Filters
· Directly open a corresponding drawing right from a part or assembly
· Refreshing drawing parameters
· Balloon snap and alignment on placement
· Project geometry works like part environment
· Edit dimension upon placement

Part Modeling Tools

· Create parameters on the fly when dimensioning
· Specify iFeatures normal direction
· Create iFeatures from iParts
· Apply buttons on Scale and Rotate dialogs
· Simplified loft selection through right click context menu

Assembly Design Tools

· Bill of Material Editor

• Shift or Control for contiguous or non-contiguous selection
• Copy/Paste
• Capitalization
• Find and Replace
• Cross highlight from the BOM editor and Assembly model

· Auto Save Reminder


Where can you get it?
Current Inventor subscription customers will be able to login to the Autodesk Subscription website and download the small Bonus Pack.