Editor Ray Kuland is asking about the claim that the new search function can even read data from TIF

Mech division made US$475 million last year, up 25% from the previous year. This means Buzz Kross is nearly half-way to his dream of making his Mechanical Division a $1-billion a year business. Three million mfg'ing customers, in both 2D and 3D.
Adesk has 9 R&D centers, car rental agencies in malaga spain investment has tripled since 2002, last year over US$80 million on R&D. The development philosophy is 24/6 – excluding Sundays, says Buzz Kross. "We really believe in this 24/6."
Buzz is giving some customer stories, which I tend not to find particularly interesting. Of the 20-odd press here, only three of us are busy typing on our notebook computers -- Martyn Day from England, David Cohn from USA, and me from Canada.
Andrew Anagnost now talking – senior director of design product management. When he joined, Autodesk was seen as the company that offered the cheap stuff. He says he thinks that some of us journalists still think that. Fine, tell us what we think! He's not sure that everyone appreciates that Autodesk has moving from a has-been to the best in the market.
– Unlimited assembly size. A new capacity meter shows the user when memory limits are being reached, so unload parts you no longer need. Also load the parts only as needed – sounds like the new CoCreate. "Hence," says Andew, "Where's Ralph? Hence the blurring of lines [between high-end and mid-level MCAD]."
The emphasis of the last five years has been for CAD vendors to recreate Pro/Engineer. Autodesk's vision is to place design into CAD – at some point in the future. "Getting the geometry out of the face of the engineer."
Start with a symbolic representation of a product, and then enter the requirements to test, simulate, and validate the design. Use the software's intelligence to generate the 3D geometry for a virtual prototype – automated geometry creation, not the CAD designer concentrating on geometry.
Some of functional design will make it into Inventor in big chunks, and other times more subtly. Examples today: frame generator, tube and pipe design, cable and harness design, simulation, design and accelerators.
Editor Ray Kuland car rental agencies in malaga spain is asking about the claim that the new search function can even read data from TIFF (raster) files. How's this possible? The iFilter form Microsoft does on-the-fly OCR [optical character recognition] to read "text" in the image.
Another editor asks, There is a lot of stuff here. Is it easy for the CAD operator to learn? "I'm sure you are going to say Yes," he adds. It's not that it's easier to use, but Autodesk is making sure that it's the way a CAD operator car rental agencies in malaga spain would do it anyhow.
Editor Bill Fane asks, "I see a hole in manufacturing: What about CNC and CAM?" Autodesk has a partner program for that, so it sounds like Autodesk doesn't intend to go into, but Kross admits that five years ago he said he wouldn't get into wire harnessing or FEA. "I've got other problems to solve first. I wouldn't like Dassault buying ANSYS" – the third-party FEA used by Inventor. "We want to do the virtual prototype."
Today you will start to hear news about a new release of AutoCAD named AutoCAD 2007. It was code named Postrio after a San Francisco restaurant. As of March 1st 6:00 AM EST (New York) those using the AutoCAD 2007 [Read More]