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Peruse Chapter 12 of Wasim Younis' Simulation Book

 

I got another email from Wasim Younis yesterday. He and I had previously corresponded when he provided feedback on the Advanced Simulation Technology Preview when it was on Autodesk Labs. As noted in a previous blog posting, Wasim recently completed his book on simulation. The book is being promoted on the Manufacturing community website and all members get a 20% discount for preordering the book.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/learning/dailybriefings/details/176461/

Yasim provided me with a chapter as a PDF file and asked me to share it with my blog readers:

Download SampleChapter12.pdf (3292.1K)

Check it out.

Sharing information to experience designs before they are real is alive in the lab.

Save 20 Percent on Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010 Book

I got an email from Wasim Younis yesterday. He and I had previously corresponded when he provided feedback on the Advanced Simulation Technology Preview when it was on Autodesk Labs. Wasim has recently completed his book on simulation. The book is being promoted on the Manufacturing community website and all members get a 20% discount for preordering the book.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/learning/dailybriefings/details/176461/

The foreword for the book was provided by Autodesk's own Engineering Design and Simulation VP, Andrew Anagnost. Check it out.

Sharing information to experience designs before they are real is alive in the lab.

Uninstalling Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009

No need to fret over uninstalling in preparation for an upgrade. The process is easy.

Since the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 expires on May 1, many of you will wish to unintstall it. For the vast majority of you, the uninstall should work flawlessly. A few of you may experience problems when installing Autodesk® Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 after failed installs or uninstalls of other Autodesk products. In these cases, it is strongly recommended that you completely remove Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 from the system and then attempt a new installation on the cleaned system. To uninstall Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009 and remove any remnants of this product from the system, follow these steps:

1. Log on to Windows as a Local System Administrator and disable any virus-scanning programs.
2. In Windows Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs and then remove Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009.
3. Using Windows Explorer, locate and delete the following folders as appropriate:
   
   Microsoft Vista 64-bit installations
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   • C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   • C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   
   Microsoft Vista 32-bit installations
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   • C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   • C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   
   Microsoft XP 64-bit installations
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
   
   Microsoft XP 32-bit installations
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009
    
4. Click Start menu (Windows) > Run.
5. In the Run dialog box, enter regedit
6. In the Registry Editor, locate and delete the following registry keys as appropriate:
   
   32-bit versions of Vista and XP
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
   • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
   
   64-bit versions of Vista and XP
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
   • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x

   You will now have a clean system on which you can install Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview 2009.

Helping mechanical industry customers keep their registries clean is alive in the lab.

Advanced Simulation Technology Preview graduated into Inventor 2010

They grow up so fast.

The Advanced Simulation Technology Preview has graduated from Autodesk Labs. Based on your feedback, most of the functionality is now part of the Inventor 2010 product line.

Thanks to all those who took the time to contact us via email, discussion forum postings, or comments on this blog. You helped shape the simulation capabilities that now appear in Inventor. Autodesk Labs - thanks to you, it's working.

Celebrating yet another graduation is alive in the lab.

Thanks for the feedback...

We're cleaning house.

We're making room for new technologies arriving in the coming months.

• Since the executable for iMap for Inventor expires on April 1, the technology preview has been removed from the Autodesk Labs site.

• Since the executable for the MEP Analysis Extension for AutoCAD MEP/Revit MEP expires on March 31, the technology preview has been removed from the Autodesk Labs site.

• Since Autodesk Design Review 2010 is now available, and the Boomless Chameleon Navigation and Wiimote Navigation add-ins were compatible with Design Review 2009, these technology previews have also ended and have been removed from the Autodesk Labs site.

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback to Autodesk Labs.

Thanks for the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview Feedback

Our technology preview of the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview has run its course. I have placed an entry on the graduates page.

Autodesk Labs Graduates

Your feedback was both helpful and voluminous. Thanks to all those who provided feedback during the technology preview.

The French version of the technology preview continues to be available for a while longer. More information on that will be coming shortly. For other geographies, see the new LT page on the main Autodesk site:

Autodesk Inventor LT 2010

Long live Inventor LT!

Like having a child going off to college, celebrating the graduation of Inventor LT is alive in the lab.

Important announcement for Autodesk Inventor LT users

As the May 1st, 2009 expiration of Inventor LT 2009 licenses approaches, we would like to give you advanced notice of our upcoming plans for Inventor LT.

What's Next for Inventor LT?
Autodesk is committed to making it affordable and practical for you to continue using Inventor LT for your 3D part design needs.

On March 24th 2009, Inventor LT will "graduate" from a free* Technology Preview product and will no longer be available from Autodesk Labs.

If you wish to continue using Inventor LT after your Inventor LT 2009 license expires on May 1, 2009, a commercially available and officially supported product will be available for license by purchase only in two ways, depending on your country of residence:

1. AutoCAD® Inventor LT™ Suite: If you live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the United States, you will be able to purchase Inventor LT 2010 as part of the recently announced AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite 2010, which includes all the exciting new features of Inventor LT 2010 as well as the latest version of AutoCAD LT software for 2D drafting and detailing - all at a remarkable value.

2. Autodesk Inventor LT 2010: If you live in Canada or the United States, you will also have the option of purchasing Inventor LT 2010 as a standalone product.

Special offers for Inventor LT users
Since May 2007, the feedback of over 50,000 users of the Technology Preview has helped shape the future of Autodesk Inventor LT. To thank you for your valuable feedback, we will be announcing special purchase offers available only to users that participated in the Technology Preview.

If you have not yet used Inventor LT, make sure you visit Autodesk Labs before March 24th and follow the download process to obtain the Inventor LT 2009 software and/or request your serial number for use during activation.

Stay tuned for more details
More details such as pricing will be available in the coming weeks, prior to the May 1 license expiration date. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at labs.inventorlt@autodesk.com, or stay tuned to Autodesk Labs for more information.

Best Regards,
The Inventor LT Team

Applying a Pressure that changes from the Surface to the Bottom

A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey wrote in:

I am designing a tank that will be filled with water. I was wondering how to apply a pressure that changes from the surface to the bottom.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Hugh Henderson, provided the answer:

At this time there isn't a hydrostatic pressure load in the Advanced Simulation Technology Preview (ASTP). Thank you for the suggestion. Instead there is a workaround that can be used from Inventor Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The same idea can be used in ASTP. It is not perfect, but it does get a meaningful result.

Use pressure and the Split face method. This is analogous to using to the Riemann sum as an estimate for the "area under the curve" in Integral Calculus.

Pressure = density * gravitational acceleration * depth
(P = rho * g * delta_h)

Calculate the depth at the centroid of the split face band. In this case, we can neglect the atmospheric pressure, since it acts on the outside of the vessel as well as on free surface of the liquid.

Of course, you can get more accurate results by increasing the number of "bands" as the height of the band approaches zero.

Responding to feedback is alive in the lab.

Autodesk Labs: MSD technologies graduate into 2010 product line

Senior Public Relations Manager of the Manufacturing Solutions Division, Clay Helm, sent out a press release yesterday announcing the "Autodesk 2010 Manufacturing Software Demonstrates Power of Digital Prototyping." For Autodesk Labs visitors, much of this will sound very familiar.

New features in the Autodesk Inventor 2010 product line include:

• Plastic part design and tooling: The Autodesk Inventor product line simplifies the design of high-quality molded part models with automated capabilities for designing injection molds for plastic parts. Thanks to all who provided feedback on the Inventor Plastic Features Technology Preview.

• Ability to simulate product performance: The Autodesk Inventor 2010 product line provides improved support for motion simulation and static and modal finite element analysis at both the part and assembly level. Thanks to all those who provided feedback on the Advanced Simulation Technology Preview.

• Design productivity: Continuing to improve usability and productivity, Inventor offers a new user interface that combines an intuitive 3D design environment for creating parts and assemblies with tools that enable engineers to focus on a design’s function to drive the automatic creation of intelligent components such as plastic parts, steel frames, and rotating machinery. Thanks to all who provided feedback on the UI Technology Preview for Inventor 2009.

The press release also mentions:

AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite: Introduced in the 2010 release, this new suite combines Autodesk Inventor LT and AutoCAD LT, one of the world’s top-selling 2D drafting and detailing software, to make it more practical and affordable for mechanical design professionals to start designing in 3D and participate in Digital Prototyping workflows. We appreciate the feedback we received for the Autodesk Inventor LT Technology Preview.

Autodesk Labs - thanks to you, it's working. Celebrating graduating technologies that really make it into the product line is alive in the lab.

YouTube: Autodesk Unity Vision Wall

Those of you who attended AU 2008 recall our unity vision wall where we collected comments on how to create and live in a sustainable world:

YouTube: Autodesk University Vision Wall

Autodesk Technical Fellow, Tom Wujec, has it all caught on tape. Check it out.