AutoCAD Inventor 2011 Beta Is Now Available

For those wondering when this would be made available, it is now available for downloading. If you already have a beta account or need to create one, go to:
http://beta.autodesk.com
If you are new, then you will need to fill out an online form and get approval.This is an excellent opportunity to review the software, see what’s new and try to break it in before it is released. Please keep in mind that Beta software is not for production use and any information created in a beta software has no guarantee of working in the final version.You will also need to check your internet connection, because you will be downloading several DVD’s worth of information.
Good luck and we look forward to seeing your comments on the Beta Forum’s website.

Drivers

We get a lot of questions and support calls concerning drivers, particularly video drivers. There is a lot of published information about video drivers and their compatibility with the Autodesk products. Here’s a very good one:

http://www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/index.php

It has past and present information on drivers, where to find them, if they are compatible with the current product and which version of the drivers are available.

Training

Spending money in a down economy sounds counter-intuitive, however, that is exactly what your business may need. While attending the Southern Automotive Conference last month, most of the automotive manufacturers in the southeast were present. Many of them discussed how they were making and acting on plans for recovery. One of them discussed that instead of laying off hundreds of employees, they trained their workers on improving quality (over thousands of hours) and developed over 3,000 kaizens! Now is a great time to train or retrain your employees on their CAD software. If you can make your engineers more productive and more accurate, it will pay off several fold through your entire production facility. Invest in your workers by training them on the software and improve your bottom line. ALACAD has many regular classes. We can also customize classes to your work/workflow to make your engineering departments more efficient.

Support, help yourself......

I found this blogger that really knows his stuff.
Wait it's Autodesk, they should know it.

Autodesk support now has their own blog!

There some good stuff here.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/

You can even setup your RSS feed to pull from here and be up to date all teh time.

Enjoy.

Certified....

Certified Nut? No
Certified Geek? No.
How about Certified Inventor Professional. That can help.
With today's economy, it helps to stand out in teh crowd. Autodesk has now released and ready for you to take the Inventor Certifications.

Visit here for an Overview: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=10095419)

There are 2 levels, Associate and Profesional.
You have to take the Associate and Pass to take the Professional.
If you take and pass the Professional Exam, you get a certificate and a Logo that you can stick in the Signature portion of your email. Also, you can be listed in Autodesk's database of Professionals for Employers (or Clients) to see.
There are practice tests available (free) to get you ready.

You have to go to a Autodesk ATC (Authorized Training Center) to take the test. However, for teh small fee, it may pay off big from a job point of view.

I recieved notification today that i passed, so you can too.

Here's a YouTube Video on some of the new Fuctions oin Sheet Metal Design:

Here's a YouTube Video on Assembly Design:

Plastic Parts Design Video

Check out this Youtube Video on the plastic parts design

Been absent so long learning more of the new stuff that's in 2010.
So let's renew the blog with cool stuff.