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Showase 2010 Studentenversion kostenlos

Endlich mal wieder was neues. Autodesk hat die Studentenversionen für die 2010 Produktreihe veröffentlicht. Dazu gehört natürlich auch Showcase 2010. Für alle die kostenlos Showcase 2010 herunterladen wollen gilt folgendes:
Nur Studenten die eine E-mail Adresse Ihrer UNI oder FH haben, können sich bei Autodesk anmelden - students.autodesk.com
Die Version ist nur für einen bestimmten Zeitraum nutzbar - das ist allerdings nicht schlimm, da die neueste Version 2011 auch wieder kostenlos heruntergeladen werden kann.

AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 Update 1

AUTOCAD MECHANICAL 2010 UPDATE 1
AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 Update 1
Troubleshooting tips for Inventor 2010
via Knowledge Base am 09.09.09
This podcast explains a couple of trouble shooting tips in diverse areas like installation, FEA calculation, data exchange and core Inventor functionality.

Updated iCopy Installers Now Available: Is It My Name?

Todd Rundgren in concert. Photo courtesy of Tim Barrios.
I just got back from Akron, Ohio where my wife, friends, and I attended a concert where Todd Rundgren performed his A Wizard, A True Star album in its entirety. One of the songs is titled "Is It My Name" which covers the musician's struggle with his record company to get his albums promoted. Rundgren is a Swedish name that means "round branch," and is not the easiest word for the record-buying public to pronounce nor remember.
So imagine my sense of coincidence when I return to work to receive the following comment on my blog:

Dear Scott, It's good that Autodesk listens to their customers, so let's see how fast you can fix this: The names of the installers are wrong. I tried the Fabrication_2010.msi installer and that seems to be the installer for the 2009 version. Some others are also wrong... Why is it called Fabrication anyway? Nevertheless, keep up the good work!! Regards, David

In response, the iCopy team created new installers which I zipped up and placed on the site. The ZIP file now contains:

You can now download the new zip file with the aptly named installers at:

Free Download of iCopy for Inventor on Autodesk Labs

So yes I guess the problem was our name. To quote Kenan Thompson fromSaturday Night Live, "It has been fixed!"

One is the loneliest number...

One is the loneliest number... especially when we are dealing with assemblies. Most of the assemblies that we find ourselves working on in the course of completing a design will require a number of purchased components... and depending on the type of product, that percentage can be pretty high. In order to support a full digital mock-up or prototype of our designs, it is a frequent practice to model a geometrically accurate facsimile of those parts or assemblies or download from the vendors themselves, those models in some neutral format. When we work with components such as these, often a single part file is used as a placeholder for what is actually an entire assembly.
Consider this example... a caster wheel used on a piece of medical equipment. […]

Plotting to older HP plotters on Windows Vista causes error messages during plot and when closing application

Plotting to an older HP plotter using the system printer driver on Window Vista will cause the error message, “Autodesk Hardcopy component has stopped working.” and the plot fails.