Recommended System Requirements

1. Intel® Pentium® III or later, with 1 Ghz or faster processor, or compatible
2. Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2) or Windows 2000 SP4
3. 512 MB RAM (1 GB or greater recommended when running the Autodesk Vault Client)
4. 1 GB of free disk space
5. 32 MB OpenGL graphics card, 1280x1024x32-bit true color or better (Minimum is 1024x768 VGA with true color)
6. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or later

Preferred System Requirements

1. Intel Pentium 4 or later, with 1.8 Ghz or faster processor, or compatible
2. Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (SP1 or SP2) or Windows 2000 SP4
3. 1 GB or more RAM
4. 1 GB of free disk space
5. 64 MB or more OpenGL work-station class graphics card, 1280x1024x32-bit true color or better (Minimum is 1024x768 VGA with true color)
6. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or later

Overview

Get unparalleled productivity out of your 2D mechanical design process with AutoCAD® Mechanical software - a purpose-built design application that saves your teams countless hours of design and rework by automating common tasks. As a result, designers gain a competitive edge and can spend their time innovating rather than struggling with workflow issues caused by generic design applications. And, AutoCAD Mechanical software is part of the AutoCAD® family of software products you are already familiar with and uses the native DWG format, providing access to the largest design community worldwide.

Recommended System Requirements

1. Intel® Pentium® III or later processor, 800 MHz or faster, or compatible
2. Microsoft® Windows® XP (Professional or Home Edition, SP1 or SP2) or Windows 2000 (SP4)
3. 512 MB RAM
4. 1.0 GB free disk space for installation
5. 1024x768 VGA with true color
6. MS Mouse-compliant pointing device
7. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1) or higher
8. CD-ROM drive

Overview

Discover why so many electrical controls designers are using AutoCAD® Electrical software-the only logical choice for electrical controls design.

If your company designs machines or products that move, electrical controls are probably a key component of the design requirement. Until now, electrical controls designers have relied on generic applications that are problematic because they require the manual layout of electrical schematics, introduce design errors, and provide no simple way to share design information-a combination that ultimately costs your company time and money. Now there's an application that delivers the tools needed to design and modify electrical controls systems faster and more accurately than ever before: AutoCAD Electrical software, the leading 2D application built specifically to create and modify electrical controls designs. As part of the AutoCAD family of products, AutoCAD Electrical software enables users to increase design productivity, reduce errors, automate key control systems design tasks, and facilitate collaboration, all while maintaining a seamless integration with the AutoCAD® environment.

Recommended System Requirements

Part and assembly design (less than 1,000 parts)
1. Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel XeonT, or AMD AthlonT processor, 2 GHz or higher
2. 1 GB or more RAM
3. 3.5 GB free disk space
4. 128 MB OpenGL-capable graphics card

Preferred System Requirements

1. Intel Pentium 4, Intel XeonT, or AMD Opteron® processor, 3 GHz or higher
2. 3 GB or more RAM
3. 3.5 GB free disk space
4. 128 MB or more OpenGL-capable workstation class graphics card

Overview

Clearly communicate your design intent with the Autodesk Inventor® family of software products. Quickly bring your ideas to life and easily explore all your design options, while automatically updating changes to affected parts, assemblies, and drawings. Create and test virtual assemblies to ensure the fit form and function of your design before it is sent to the manufacturing floor. You can even create specialided designs that contain cables, harness, tubes, pipes, and validate your designs with finite element analysis (FEA) and dynamic simulation tools that to ensure the safety and strength of you design.

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This overview provides seven simple reasons why moving to 3D with Autodesk Inventor is the best choice for AutoCAD users. If you're looking to stay ahead of the competition by moving beyond the limitations of 2D design. If you're trying to get to market faster or reduce errors in your design process, moving to 3D is the next step.

Autodesk understands the challenges of the 2D design environment that designers are often faced with:

1. Need to support both 2D and 3D design processes
2. Worried about losing AutoCAD expertise and design data
3. Need to rapidly create production ready drawings for downstream users
4. Products are experiencing stress-related field failures
5. Takes too long to develop piping or wiring designs
6. Need to spend more time solving design problems and less time solving geometry modeling problems

System Requirements

1. Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel XeonT, or AMD AthlonT processor, 2GHz or higher
2. 1 GB or more RAM
3. 3.5 GB free disk space
4. 128 MB OpenGL-capable graphics card

System Recommendations

1. Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, or AMD OpteronT processor, 3 GHz or higher
2. 3 GB or more RAM
3. 3.5 GB free disk space
4. 128 MB or more OpenGL-capable workstation class graphics card

Overview

Realize the benefits of 3D design when developing very large assemblies. With Level of Detail Representations you have full control over which parts of your project are loaded into memory when you open the model. The capacity meter enables you to monitor memory consumption as you work so you can quickly open a huge project file to review the assembly structure and then choose to open only those subassemblies needed to get the job done.

Other components of Autodesk Inventor® software have been designed to support large assemblies, including advanced bill of materials (BOM) management and integrated data management to simplify the control and versioning of large numbers of part and assembly models.

Frame Generator

Use the frame generator to automate the design of welded structural frames. Design and development of structural frames is fast with tools that streamline placement of predefined structural shapes and simplify creation of end conditions and welded joint cleanup.

Assembly Configurations

New assembly configurations make it fast and efficient to design and document product families by defining variations from a master assembly. With assembly configurations, you can exclude or substitute individual components and make changes to dimension and constraint values. Then document the entire product family using the new Table tool to add a parameter table in your assembly drawing.

Sculpt Tool

Use the new Sculpt tool to create 3D shapes by quickly and easily combining closed sets of surfaces. Incorporate imported surface data into your design using the Sculpt tool to modify existing parts by adding or removing material.

Simulation

Simulating the operation of mechanisms and motorized assemblies helps to ensure that your designs are valid while avoiding the need for physical prototypes. Use simulation features in Autodesk Inventor® software to compute the dynamic operating conditions of your design throughout its full operating cycle. Accurately size motors and actuators to sustain actual operating loads. Analyze the positions, velocities, accelerations, and loads encountered by each component of the mechanism.