1. Advanced Micro Systems, Inc.
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Advanced Micro Systems, Inc.
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2. Autodesk Inventor Professional
Provides high value, specialized capabilities for routed systems and analysis
Reduce design errors and create better quality products
Reduce reliance on physical prototypes
Innovate and optimize design
Generate accurate, associative manufacturing documentation
Autodesk
Inventor Series
Tube & Pipe
Cable &
Harness
Stress
Analysis
Autodesk Inventor
Professional
Start with the world’s #1 selling 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor® Series. Add specialized functionality for Cable & Wire harness, Tube & Pipe and piping,and importing PCB IDF files. On top of that, include FEA part validation functionality, powered by industry-leading ANSYS® technology, and you’ve got Autodesk Inventor® Professional.
Not only is it a powerful 3D tool, but it’s also the best way to connect design teams with manufacturing engineers while reducing design errors and creating better quality products.
Bring products to market faster and save money with Autodesk Inventor Professional Improve communications among design teams and with manufacturing Reduce costs by eliminating reliance on physical prototypes to verify form, fit and function Improve quality with automated functionality that reduces opportunities for human error.
Reduce design errors and create better quality products Rule-based design ensures that standards are met Stress analysis enables innovation and optimization of products Automatically generate accurate, associative manufacturing documentation.
Bring products to market faster and save money with AIP
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3. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
The functionality in AIP centers on these 6 areas:
Power: the power to design your complete product line, with enhanced virtual prototyping capabilities
Quality: the ability to create quality products the first time around, with our new embedded stress analysis functionality, and visualization capabilities
LessTime: the creation of designs in less time than previously used automated or manual methods
Speed: the fastest way to production ready drawings, with automated manufacturing outputs.
Communicate: Better methods to communicate and share intelligent design data
Fastest: the fastest to learn and deploy since the learning curve is incremental for Inventor users
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
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4. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10 - Seminar

5. Cable & Harness: Creation
Connect electrical components manually or via import with wires and cables
Automatically creates Inventor geometry
Represents physical as well electrical design intent
Import a configurable from/to list
Link to AutoCAD Electrical
Creating wires is easy with Autodesk Inventor Professional. To create a wire, simply specify two electrical points to be connected, and the software
automatically adds a wire, creating all the necessary Inventor geometry.
As your harness design progresses, the software maintains proper electrical connections as the 3D model changes.
You can make sure that the 3D wiring design matches the electrical design from the start. Transfer electrical connectivity using an ASCII from/to list or from AutoCAD® Electrical to Autodesk Inventor Professional with a Wire List file – one of the standard AutoCAD Electrical reports.
Establish and maintain electrical connectivity during 3D harness design
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6. Cable & Harness: Path Definition
Easily define harness and cable paths
Paths update when the 3D model changes
Modify as design progresses
Visualize harnesses in your 3D model and make the most of intelligent design trade-offs with confidence that there is sufficient room for your electrical system.
Define harness and cable paths using a point-and-click method that creates 3D virtual conduits in your model,with points easily added or moved to refine the shape of the harness.
With Autodesk Inventor Professional, you can create associative relationships to ensure that your harness automatically updates as design components change.
Early visualization of 3D harness ensures adequate space for electrical system
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7. Cable & Harness: Design
Create a 3D virtual prototype
Eliminate reliance on physical prototypes
Automatically create manufacturing outputs
Today, most companies design their wire harnesses and cable systems by waiting for a hardware prototype and then manually measuring to determine wire lengths. The manual nature of the wiring design process typically results in 2-3 iterations before creating an acceptable harness. This is time consuming and costly.
By creating a “Wired Assembly” or 3D virtual prototype in Autodesk Inventor Professional you are able to eliminate your reliance on physical prototypes for estimating wire lengthsn and to automatically creation manufacturing documentation.
Ultimately reducing iterations and eliminating human error.
Reduce iterations and eliminate human error
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8. Cable & Harness: Splices
Connect conductors with new splice object
Account for overlap or gaps
Create appropriate reports and documentation
In some industries, especially transportation, multiple wires are joined together with a slice – this can be a welded or crimped connection or a special part can even be used.
The new specialized splice object in AIP enables you to accurately and quickly model splices that are fully intelligent.
Now you can connect two or more conductors with a new splice object. Previously you would have had to create a small part to simulate this.
Splices exist in free space, on a wire or buried in a segment
Splice wires interactively or add wires to splices via the wire list import
Account for wire overlap or gaps between spliced wires
Feed downstream reports and nailboard documentation
Accurately and quickly depict connectivity in harnesses that contain splices
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9. Save time and reduce errors by automating piping design
Tube & Pipe: Design
Verify form and fit of tubing, piping and flexible hose
Replaces tedious, manual processes
Automatically adheres to design rules
Updates when the model changes
Designing rigid Tube & Pipe, flexible hose, and piping systems is no longer a time-consuming chore. Just select
a start point, an end point, and any number of intermediate points to define the best route. If you want a
more automated approach, let the autorouter offer you suggestions based on minimum length and number of segments.
Create and modify piping paths using a rules based router, and watch as changes are associatively
updated in your drawing. This allows you to automatically adhere to design rules, such as
minimum or maximum length, thus helping enhance quality and increase productivity.
And since it is native Inventor data as the model changes the piping will update associatively.
Save time and reduce errors by automating piping design
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10. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
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11. Cable & Harness: Wire Length Calculation
Automatic calculation whenever path changes
Highly accurate
User controlled length compensations
Embedded Length
Global Slack
Round Up
Replace the time-consuming process of manually measuring a hardware prototype with a virtual prototype that generates highly accurate
wire lengths and updates them as your design changes. Whenever the wire path changes, the length is automatically recalculated.
Take control over wire and cable lengths to reduce scrap and manufacturing delays caused by wires that are too long or too short.
This feature allows you to • Account for the amount of wire used beyond the point where the wire enters the connector (embedded length)
• Globally add extra length to wires and cables based on a percentage of their lengths (global slack)
• Round up wire length to the nearest specified unit (nearest half inch or 5 millimeters) to account for the way manufactured wires
are cut (round up)
Eliminates tedious process of manually measuring a prototype
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12. Cable & Harness: Bundle Diameter Calculation
Automatic calculation updates when harness changes
Accounts for wire and cable diameter and air gaps
Enables accurate visualization of harness space requirements
Use 3D visual inspection and interference detection tools to accurately determine whether wire bundles will fit your assembly. The software
automatically calculates bundle diameters whenever you add or remove wires, even accounting for the air gaps between wires.
Know in advance that wire bundles will fit in your designs
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13. Tube & Pipe: Design Rules
User configurable
Minimum segment length
Minimum bend radii
Maximum length between couplings
Matches fittings to appropriate style of pipe, tube or hose
Enhance the quality and manufacturability of your designs with tube and pipe runs that automatically adhere to preset standards. Configure
design rules and determine minimum segment lengths, bend radii, and maximum length between couplings. You can also specify the
appropriate fittings for a given pipe style.
Increase quality and manufacturability by ensuring adherence to company standards
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14. Stress Analysis: Perform Stress Analysis on Parts
Understand part function
Will it deform?
How much will it deflect?
Is there too much material?
Embedded analysis for parts
Stress
Displacement
Frequency
Safety factor
Save time by removing the guesswork from part design. Examine how your parts perform in the real world. With Autodesk Inventor Professional you can visualize just how much your parts will deform and deflect under realistic operating conditions.
Make design decisions based on analysis rather than intuition. Let the simulation assist you in building the optimal part. Visually identify trouble spots that fall below your safety factor requirements and develop alternative solutions for these areas.
Stop over-designing parts and start saving money by choosing the best possible material type for the task at hand. Using less material results in a lower cost per part and saves money downstream on shipping, material handling, and warehousing fees
Rather than create our own analysis tool, we’ve partnered with Ansys to make this best in class functionality possible.
Embedded analysis types include Stress, Displacement, and Safety Factor.
Based on user-defined loads and part geometry, Autodesk Inventor Professional will automatically create an FEA Mesh and solve for stress and displacement answering your part performance questions.
Create higher quality parts and experience fewer field failures when you perform Stress analysis on parts without ever leaving Inventor.
Create higher quality parts and experience fewer field failures
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15. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10 - Seminar

16. Cable & Harness: Wire Routing
Creates wire bundles
Ensures a high degree of user control
Manual Routing
Interactive Routing
Automatic Routing
Use automated and manual wire routing options to quickly route thousands of wires while maintaining complete control over the
paths of critical wire.
Wires are inserted into segments using three routing functions:
• Manual routing requires explicit selection of a wire’s path.
• Interactive routing requires selecting the start and end points of the routed path to let an algorithm choose the shortest path.
• Automatic routing finds the shortest possible path based on all available paths.
Quickly route thousands of wires to determine lengths and bundle diameters
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17. Tube & Pipe: Creating Runs
Converts route paths into physical pipes
Adheres to design rules
Pulls content directly from the library
Updates automatically when design changes
Automatically populate piping routes with real parts that adhere to your manufacturing standards. The Populate Route tool turns tube, pipe,
and hose routes into physical pipe runs, automatically placing fittings, pipe segments, rigid tubes, and hose as needed. Standard Autodesk
Inventor parts are created during this process to make it easy to perform mass property calculations and interference checks. What’s more, couplings are automatically placed when pipes reach their maximum length, and you can specify length cutoff increments.
Automatically use parts that adhere to your standards
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18. Tube & Pipe: 3D Sketch as Route
Convert a 3D Sketch into a pipe or tube route
Edit 3D sketch and route updates
Leverage new constraints for 3D sketches
Now you can use all or part of an existing 3D sketch to create tube and pipe runs. And when you edit the original 3D sketch the route will update.
This functionality leverages improvements to the Autodesk Inventor 3D sketch environment, including enhanced constraints and enables re-use of manually created 3D sketches as tube and pipe paths. It is now faster and easier to make pipes parallel and to constrain them to other geometry.
Control tubing and piping paths and create parallel pipe runs more easily
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19. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10 - Seminar

20. Cable & Harness: Assembly Documentation
Utilize standard Inventor drawing functionality
Create complete drawing sets
Include details on where the harness resides
Display centerlines
Instead of relying on digital photographs or rough sketches, use Autodesk Inventor Professional to quickly and accurately include details of the location of cable harnesses in your assemblies. Since cable and harness geometry is native to the Autodesk Inventor program, you can easily create assembly documentation using standard Drawing Manager functions.
Easily create accurate assembly drawings
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21. Cable & Harness: Report Generation
User defined reports
Wire run lists
Bill of materials
Cut Lists
And more …
Reusable report templates
CSV File Output
Streamline and automate the creation of reports through centralized data storage. Use the report generation utility to define report templates
and run reports such as wire lists, termination charts, cut tables, and others needed to design and manufacture harnesses.
Streamlines and automates creation of wiring reports
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22. Cable & Harness: Nailboard Drawings
Automatically create 2D flattened representations
Associative updates
Intelligent annotation
Dimension to wire lengths
Automated fan in/out
Quickly create accurate 2D harness documentation with intelligent properties and dimensions that automatically update as the 3D design changes. This will reduce errors caused by manual creation and multiple design iterations.
It’s easy to manipulate and annotate an associative2D representation of a 3D harness or cable. You can add pin, wire, and connector properties;
create 2D views of connectors; add dimensions to actual wire and bundle lengths; and supply other data needed for manufacturing.
Eliminate iterations associated with manual nailboard drawing creation
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23. Tube & Pipe: ISOGEN PCF Output
Automatically generate piping isometrics with ISOGEN from Alias
Export industry standard PCF file
Use the piping component file (PCF) output to reduce errors by automatically creating isometric pipe drawings with third-party applications.
Create PCFs to use as an interface to the industry-standard Alias ISOGEN software. Based on your PCF input file, ISOGEN creates a DXF™ or DWG file containing the isometric drawings.
Note: ISOGEN is another product that can be purchased from Alias (
Save time and eliminate errors by automatically generating symbolic piping isometrics
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24. Tube & Pipe: Assembly Documentation
Utilize standard Inventor drawing functionality
Include details on where the piping resides
Create cut tables or length roll ups
Automatically display centerlines
Quickly and easily include accurate details about Tube & Pipe, piping, and hose locations in your assemblies. Since all the tube and pipe geometry
is native to Autodesk Inventor, you can easily create assembly documentation using standard Drawing Manager functions.
Easily create accurate assembly drawings
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25. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10 - Seminar

26. Stress Analysis: Share Results
Make changes to model with results superimposed
Generate Reports & AVIs
File compatibility with ANSYS products, including Design Space
Export loads and mesh
Because you can view results without leaving the Autodesk Inventor environment, you can make modifications more quickly and execute additional simulations until you achieve the desired results.
In addition to generating a variety of reports, you can use the analysis from Autodesk Inventor Professional directly in other ANSYS products, offering a foundation for further validation, engineering review, and advanced studies. This functionality accurately communicates load data to those performing more advanced simulations.
Easily correct and communicate design problems
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27. Stress Analysis: Deflection Animation
Animate results of deflection or frequency study
Save as an AVI
You can even animate the results of a deflection study or frequency analysis and save as an AVI. This enables you to gain and communicate a deeper understanding of how the part reacts under stress.
Communicate richer data on part function
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28. Centralize design storage and improve design reuse
Autodesk Vault
Autodesk Vault provides easy-to-use work-in-progress data management integrated with the design applications you use today
Manage Work-in-Progress
Easy to Use and Administer
Organize & Reuse
Protect and Secure
Autodesk Vault
Securely manage work-in-progress design changes with built-in Autodesk Vault. Quick to learn and deploy, Autodesk Vault coordinates the sharing of files among workgroups, controls versions, and is tightly integrated with all Autodesk manufacturing design products.
Centralize design storage and improve design reuse
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29. Collaboration and Viewing
Publish 2D and 3D models to DWF
DWF publishing built-in
Auto-publishing with Autodesk Vault
Lightweight published data
Secures intellectual property
Autodesk DWF Viewer
Free download
Viewing and printing
3D DWF Publishing
Share design data with industry-standard DWF™ (Design Web Format™) files.
As design information continuously flows from concept through completion, all kinds of people need to see that model along the way and they don’t all have the software that created it.
With Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical, you can publish files to 2D/3D DWF and securely share those models with anyone who needs it – for free. And with the Vault, DWF files are automatically published – ensuring that the latest design information is securely preserved.
DWF files are much smaller than Inventor IPT and IDW files, as well as AutoCAD DWG and DXF files – while at the same time maintaining the fidelity and design intelligence of the original model.
Furthermore DWF files are secure: They contain password protection and encryption and essentially have the same security as physical paper. 
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Description:
Ability to share Inventor design data via industry standard 3D DWF
Benefits:
Improved communication with outside teams
Easily share designs with the extended manufacturing team
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30. Tube & Pipe: Content Center
Includes commonly used components
Tubing, piping and hose
Fittings and end treatments
Enables intelligent placement of fittings and couplings
Fully extensible
Edit properties via table
Wizard driven publishing
Eliminate tedious searching by quickly and automatically accessing the correct part from an extensive library of piping components. The
library includes commonly used, industry standard ISO, ANSI, DIN, and JIS fittings and parts, as well as popular Parker hose and fittings.
The library is fully extensible and you can easily add your own components.
A publishing wizard speeds you through the process of preparing data to
use with Autodesk Inventor Professional.
Save time with centralized library
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31. Eliminates need to manually recreate board geometry
IDF Import
Automatically create PCB geometry
Import accurate PCB data rather than recreating
Verify form and fit of boards in virtual prototype
Locate board connectors for cable and harness design
Save time by importing printed circuit board (PCB) geometry in intermediate data format (IDF) files directly into your Autodesk Inventor
Professional model, establishing fit without creating a physical prototype.
Eliminates need to manually recreate board geometry
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32. Autodesk Inventor Professional
The power to design the complete product line
Create quality products the first time around
Deliver the design in less time
Fastest way to production ready drawings
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10
Communicate and manage design data
Fastest way to learn and deploy
Autodesk Inventor Professional 10 - Seminar

33. Incremental Learning Curve
Tightly integrated workflows
User interface consistent with Inventor
Customized browser
Specialized panel menu
If you already use Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Inventor Professional is easy to learn and use.
By taking advantage of the familiar Autodesk Inventor interface, you avoid the need to learn new entirely software packages so you can see immediate benefits.
Achieve productivity quickly with AIP
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34. Advanced Help and Support System
Award-winning Design Support System
“Show-Me” animations
Design Doctor
Skill Builders
Advanced Help System
Speed the transition to 3D with contextual help. The award-winning Design Support System (DSS) provides browser-based support to quickly bring you up to speed and offers an electronic infrastructure for easy learning.
Design Doctor
Resolve errors in your 3D model with highly refined diagnostic tools that recognize potential design issues and recommend corrections.
Notes:
The Advanced Help and Support System provide unrivaled learning and support capabilities through integrated learning tools, context-sensitive help,
and an error diagnosis and recovery system. For example, the Design Doctor feature provides direct feedback (for example, a fillet is too big or a shell isn’t thick enough) to help diagnose design problems and show how to recover from them.
Speeds transition to 3D by providing in-context help when you need it
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35. In Summary With Autodesk Inventor Professional you can:
Expand the benefits of AIS with high value, specialized capabilities for
Cable and Wire Harness Design
Tubing, Piping and Hose Design
Embedded Stress Analysis
Improve the design process by connecting design and manufacturing teams
Reduce design errors and create better quality products
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