Free technology preview of Inventor Fusion for the Mac Now Available

You asked for Inventor Fusion on the Mac, and we heard you.

Inventor Fusion is a free technology preview that enables creation of designs through intuitive direct manipulation tools. Our aim is to set a new standard for Assembly design, giving users greater control over designs without sacrificing productivity. Hopefully this technology preview will make it easier to open and edit 3D models from virtually any source and incorporate them into new or existing designs (such as in Autodesk Inventor). Your feedback will determine if we are correct in our thinking.

The current version of the technology preview for the Microsoft Windows platform expires on May 1. Planning is already in the works for what comes next. Concurrently the team would like feedback on the technology preview running on the Apple OS X platform.

Download Inventor Fusion for Mac via Autodesk Labs

The system requirements include:

• Apple^® Mac OS^® X v10.6.8, OS X v10.7.2 or later with 64-bit Intel processor

• Apple^® Mac^® Pro 4.1 or later;
  MacBook^® Pro 5.1 or later (MacBook Pro 6.1 or later recommended);
  iMac^® 8.1 or later (iMac 11.1 or later recommended);

• 3 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)

• 2.5 GB free disk space for download and installation (3 GB recommended)

• Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac supports iMac, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro machines with these graphics cards.

  AMD(ATI)	NVIDIA	Intel
  AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT	Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
  AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
  AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB	NVIDIA GeForce 9400/9600M
  AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB
  AMD Radeon HD 6490M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
  ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB	NVIDIA GeForce 320 M 256MB
  ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB

  Additional graphics card could be supported in a future version of this technology.

• 1280 x 800 display with true color (1600 x 1200 with true color recommended)

• All Mac OS X supported operating system languages

• Apple^® Mouse, Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, MacBook^® Pro Trackpad, or Microsoft-compliant mouse.

The team is interested in hearing from you on how the technology preview operates on the Mac platform. You can email your comments (good and bad) to [email protected]. We enjoy hearing the good because it indicates that we should spend more time and effort on the technology. We enjoy hearing the bad because it helps us improve the technology. So silence is the only thing we're not that fond of.

Listening is alive in the lab.