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Inventor 2011 Service Pack 1 Available

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

With Autodesk continual effort to improve their products, Autodesk has released service pack 1 for Inventor 2011. The Service pack can be downloaded from:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15506670&linkID=9242019

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Import AutoCAD Blocks into Inventor DWG Drawing

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

With Inventor 2011 you can now reuse all of your AutoCAD blocks in an Inventor drawing by using the new Import AutoCAD Block command. You scale and rotate the block while placing it or after it is placed. One item to note is that this command ONLY works while in an Inventor DWG file. This command is grayed out in a IDW file.

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What’s New in Inventor 2011 Article and Video

Friday, May 21st, 2010

By, Dan Banach

In the AUGIWorld May/June 2010 issue John Evan’s wrote an article with some editing from myself, that gives a very good overview of What’s New in Autodesk Inventor 2011. Click the following URL http://www.augi.com/publications/default.asp?page=63 to download AUGIWorld, which is AUGI’s official online magazine that is published every two months and is available free of charge to all AUGI members.

If you prefer to watch a video, I recorded the What’s New Autodesk Inventor 2011and the family of Autodesk 2011 MFG products webinar that we did in April. Click the following link to Register to view our On-demand Webinar: See the Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions (2 parts)

Enjoy these new solutions from Autodesk.

 

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Discover the Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions - April 23, 2010 Webinar - Posted

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

On April 21 and 23, 2010 we presented the “Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions Seize the Opportunity” webinar that covered Autodesk Inventor 2011 and its family of products. The April 23 webinar has been posted to our website and is available to be viewed at the links below. The webinar has been divided into two parts. To view the movies you may need to install / update a Flash plug-in. The questions that were asked during the webinar have been posted to my blog dated April 25, 2010

Register to view our On-demand Webinar: See the Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions (2 parts)

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Inventor 2010 Service Pack 3 Available

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

Autodesk Inventor 2010 SP3 has been released and is available at: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL14822533

 

You must install Autodesk Inventor 2010 and apply Service Pack 1 & Service Pack 2, before you can install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 3. If you have previously installed the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010, in addition to Service Pack 1 and the approriate Service Pack 2, ensure you download and install from the appropriate Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Bonus Pack SP3 file instead of the appropriate Autodesk Inventor 2010 SP3 file.

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Discover the Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions - April 21 & 23, 2010 Webinars Q & A

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

Thanks to everyone who attended our “Autodesk 2011 Manufacturing Solutions Seize the Opportunity” webinars on April 21 and 23, 2010 that covered Autodesk Inventor and its family of products. Below are the answers to the technical questions that we received.

Q: Does 2011 have any issues installing on windows 7?
A: Autodesk Inventor 2011 supports the following operating systems; Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise, or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP2) (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, or Microsoft® Windows XP Professional (SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) (1,2)


Q: How much more memory will we need to run the in canvas commands? Does 2011 manage memory better than 2010?
A: The in canvas commands should not impact the amount of memory required. Many customers upgraded from Windows Vista or XP to Windows 7 and have noted performance and memory use improvements .


Q: Are there new requirements for the type of computer capabilities to run the new version?
A: The system requirements for Inventor 2011 have not changed substantially from 2010. There are three resources to learn more about the Autodesk 2011 software system requirements

Q: Is there a presentation video that demonstrates everything we are seeing here?
A: This presentation has been recorded and will be posted to our website shortly. I will update everyone with the location of the video(s). Autodesk also has a YouTube channel and has many videos available for viewing.

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Subscription Clients - Autodesk 2011 Software Via Download

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

For current Autodesk subscription clients the Autodesk 2011 products primary delivery mechanism is via a download. By downloading the software you will be able to receive the software quicker than waiting for a box of software. Your Software Coordinator will receive an email as soon as their serial number has been upgraded after the release of the 2011 product. The email, is sent from Download@autodesksubscription.com, contains the customer’s serial number and the product key, which is needed for installation. Please remind your customers to check their junk/spam folders for mail coming from Download@autodesksubscription.com because the emails sometimes end up there.

If you prefer to receive the software in a box your Software Coordinator can log into www.autodesk.com/subscription and change the delivery preference in your Subscription Center profile to “box.”

Enjoy the new software.

 

 

 

 

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Join the MasterGraphics Team!

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Sales Representative – Manufacturing Software and Services

MasterGraphics is looking for a high energy, high activity consultative Sales Representative to help grow our business within the manufacturing community. Celebrating our 60th anniversary this year, MasterGraphics is a well-established, solid organization with a number of untapped business opportunities.

You will be networking in to clients with design data needs, helping them to enhance their design process with Autodesk®’s suite of industry-leading CAD and digital prototyping tools. As a Premier Service Provider for Autodesk, MasterGraphics is authorized to provide not only the software but the installation, training and business consulting services that manufacturing organizations need to stay on top of their game. Our set of software and services positions both the customer and you for success.

This position will cover a territory that includes Madison and a radius north, west and south. It will roughly cover Rockford, IL up to Black River Falls and over into Iowa. The position will be based at our Madison headquarters.

Click here to learn more about this position and the benefits of joining the MasterGraphics Team

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Where to See the Autodesk 2011 Products

Monday, April 5th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

You know that it is spring time when Autodesk releases the next release of solutions. This year’s 2011 solutions contain many command enhancements and new functionality that will help your productivity. To see what’s new with the Inventor product line you can join us for a User Group meeting on 4/15/2010 in our Waukesha office, attend a webcast on 4/21 or 4/23.  To see a higher level presentation you can attend a “Seize the Opportunity with 2011 Autodesk Solutions for Manufacturing” seminar which will be held in different locations. To learn more about these events and to register please visit:

http://www.mastergraphics.com/events/manufacturing-events

Look for to seeing you at one of these events and sharing with you the exciting new solutions.

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Vault Replication 2.0

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

By Darren Hartenstine

No, this isn’t a new product coming out from Autodesk anytime soon.  But, it’s a major addition to their replication environment available in Vault Collaboration 2011 and Vault Professional 2011 (formally Manufacturing). 

Replication allows for two geographically separate offices the ability to share a common Autodesk Vault. In 2010, we could only replicate the files and all database transactions need to occur at the main site.  The result would provide some performance boost in accessing and editing CAD files, but searches and Item Master / Change Order access could be slow as a result of poor network performance between sites.

Now, with 2011, we can replicate everything.  Or, if you want to win first prize to the Geekdom awards, you can create a hybrid configuration of full replication at some sites and partial replication at others. 

Brian Schanen posted a recent blog explaining how the technology works. 

Here’s the link to the blog:

http://underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/full-replication-with-autodesk-vault-2011-product-family.html

A few things to point out…..full replication takes a Microsoft SQL license at each database site.  And, you will need the Autodesk Data Management Server (ADMS) to be installed at each remote site.

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