-- e-vol. 36, October 2005

Industry News & Comment
Autodesk Acquisitions Offer Great New Capabilities
"Several recent acquisitions underscore Autodesk’s commitment to the Manufacturing Design, Architectural Design, and Media segment and presage substantial new capabilities for Inventor and related products . . ."

 Autodesk Acquires Alias
"Autodesk announced recently that they have signed an agreement to acquire Alias for $182M. Alias makes Maya, MotionBuilder, StudioTools, and other software. Alias software has been used in almost every film nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Animated Feature Films and the company won an Oscar® for the award year 2002. . ."

Promotions and Special Offers
  Autodesk is retiring AutoCAD® 2002-based software and Autodesk Inventor® Series 7
Upgrade before October 31 and SAVE up to 15%!

Are you ready to switch to Autodesk® Revit® Building, but still have projects you’re working on in Autodesk® Architectural Desktop? If you answered “yes,” you’ll want to know about the Rev It Up Promotion for Autodesk Architectural Desktop.  Hurry, promotion ends October 31!

Mechanical Product Review
Harnessing AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Professional to Take the Pain out of Modeling Wires
"This month I'd like to discuss a topic that many Inventor users may not be familiar or comfortable with: wires. Often we spend a great deal of time figuring out precisely where all of the mechanical pieces of a machine should fit while paying little to no attention to all of those 'insignificant' details such as wires and hoses. . ."

AEC and Civil Product Reviews
Using Autodesk Architectural Desktop to Speed Production Drawing: Part 2
"One of the biggest and least productive headaches of managing a drawing set is making sure that all of the section, elevation and detail callouts are properly coordinated between drawing sheets. This task has been completely automated in ADT. . . . "
 

Data Migration in Autodesk Civil 3D 2006
"Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 has made the migration of design data from multiple formats into Civil 3D (C3D) as easy as one, two, three. In the three steps outlined below, any user can safely and thoroughly absorb data created by different programs into their design world. . . . "

Technical Perspective
   Software on DVD:  New Versions Force Upgrades
". . . Many major vendors are now shifting away from multiple CD’s to DVD delivery of software. What does this mean for you?. . ."

   PCI-Express Video (Updated 10/4/2005):  Businesses now have little choice
"Call it an Intel problem, or blame whoever you like, but AGP motherboards have dried up. That means that it is PCI Express… or else. . ."

News and Events
 Get Your Hands on Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Vault with a Free Instructor-led Test Drive
This half-day hands-on workshop will focus on the features and benefits of the latest release of Inventor® and Autodesk® Vault. You will design a part from start to finish and use that part in an assembly in Inventor. Then learn how Inventor Vault's built-in data management application will help you automate key processes and securely manage work-in-process designs and changes. During lunch (provided by Hagerman & Company) we'll show you Autodesk® Productstream^TM and demonstrate how Autodesk Productstream can automate the release management process.

November 3 - St. Louis, MO	November 10, Mishawaka, IN
December 1 - Schaumburg, IL	December 6 - Mt. Zion, IL
December 7 - Nashville, TN	December 8 - Indianapolis, IN
December 13 - Memphis, TN

 Autodesk Vault Webex - November 1, 9:30 a.m. CST
Everyone who owns Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Mechanical, or AutoCAD Electrical now has Autodesk Vault as part of their software suite. If you are one of those people and are looking for the answers to two important questions:  "What will Vault do for Me?" and "How do I implement Vault within my organization?" then this webcast is for you!

 New Employees
We welcome three new employees to our organization.  Cindy Poston - Marketing Manager, Tracy Fisher - Account Manager, AEC, and Dan Harshman - Sales Coordinator.

Training Classes
  Training Classes   New classes added monthly

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