Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2012

Autodesk® Product Design Suite Ultimate 2012, with Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software, provides designers and engineers the complete set of product design and visualization tools offered in the Premium edition, plus the ability to test and validate products before they're built, automate tooling creation, and incorporate industrial design aesthetics into digital prototypes.

• Optimize and validate product performance—Tightly integrated motion simulation and stress analysis tools in Autodesk Inventor Professional enable you to perform simulation modeling to predict how your design will work under real-world conditions.
• Accelerate product design and manufacturing—Use Autodesk Inventor Professional for designing routed systems, including complex tube and pipe runs as well as electrical cable and harness design.
• Quickly create and validate complete mold designs—Automate key aspects of the design of injection molds for plastic parts, helping to reduce errors and improve mold performance.
• Advanced surface creation tools—Autodesk® Alias® Design software provides a subset of dynamic 3D surface modeling capabilities for digital modelers.
• 3D product visualization and design communication—Easily create renderings and animations that convey ideas to managers, explain designs to manufacturers, and persuade customers.
• Accelerated 2D mechanical design—With comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts and tools for automating common design tasks, AutoCAD® Mechanical design software accelerates the mechanical design process.
• Manage design data more effectively—Create and manage crucial parts lists and bills of materials (BOMs).

Design Remarkable Products in a Complete Digital Prototyping Workflow

Create incredible products with Autodesk Product Design Suite, featuring Autodesk® Inventor®. In a single, cost-effective package, get a comprehensive set of award-winning design, visualization, and simulation software for your entire product design workflow—from early concepts and detailed engineering to simulation.

Featuring Autodesk® Inventor® software, Autodesk Product Design Suite gives everyone in the product design workflow—from designers to engineers—the tools they need to develop incredible products. Innovate designs, collaborate across teams, and create compelling presentations with Autodesk Product Design Suite.

Use the Industry’s Best 3D Parametric Design Tool
Take advantage of Autodesk Inventor, state-of-the-art mechanical design software, to create accurate digital prototypes that let you simulate the real-world performance of your product before it’s built. Develop, simulate, optimize, and validate digital prototypes as you design—helping to reduce engineering change orders, increase product reliability, and lower development costs.

Create Your Most Innovative Concepts
Unleash your imagination with full-featured software solutions for sketching, styling, surfacing, and modeling. Explore design concepts, produce stunning illustrations, and create striking, original forms and shapes that meet the demands of today’s competitive market.

Leave the Competition Behind
Use existing CAD data to create compelling imagery, movies, and interactive presentations that help you improve design reviews, secure internal buy-in, and win competitive bids.

Astonish Prospects, Win Business
Develop arresting photorealistic renderings and cinematic animations that show how products operate in real-world settings—so you shorten your sales cycle and win more business.

Slash Your Costs
Lower costs by purchasing one suite with all the design tools you need. It costs up to 58 percent less to purchase Autodesk Product Design Suite than it does to purchase each tool individually. And installing, deploying, and managing a single standard suite saves time.* Reach your quality and productivity goals with help from a software suite specifically created to address every aspect of your product design workflow.

Innovate Designs, Collaborate Across Teams, and Create Compelling Presentations

• Autodesk® Inventor® Professional
• Alias® Design
• AutoCAD® Mechanical
• Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design
• Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer
• Autodesk® Vault
• Autodesk® Showcase®
• Autodesk® Mudbox™

Design Without Boundaries
When you use Autodesk Product Design Suite, you experience a smoother workflow than ever before. With its broad set of easy-to-use, interoperable product design tools, your product design teams can work more creatively and manage their processes more efficiently. As ideas move from concept to engineering, there’s no need to remodel concepts: engineers can work from conceptual designs. And with everyone using a common set of tools, you improve collaboration across all phases of development.

Autodesk Inventor
Take advantage of a comprehensive set of 3D mechanical design software to create more accurate digital prototypes, integrating all design data into a single model. Create a virtual representation of your final product and digitally simulate its real-world performance before it’s built.

Autodesk Inventor Professional
Use more of the best integrated and easy-to-use simulation tools to test and validate products, achieving top-quality results. You can also accelerate product design and manufacturing with tools for designing routed systems, including complex tube and pipe runs and electrical cable and harness design.

AutoCAD Mechanical
Create and revise mechanical drawings quickly using all the functionality of world-class AutoCAD® software, plus a complete set of features designed to boost the productivity of your mechanical design.

Alias Design
With the comprehensive conceptual modeling and surfacing capabilities in Alias® Design, you can create production-ready surfaces and rapidly iterate designs that meet both aesthetic and functional requirements. Alias Design includes the same flexible modeling tools used by the world’s most successful automotive and consumer product manufacturers.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design
Create photorealistic renderings and cinema-quality 3D animations with the push of a button. Show prospects how designs will function in real-world settings—and accelerate your path to new business.

Autodesk Showcase
Quickly and easily transform your designs into compelling imagery, movies, and interactive presentations for design reviews and sales pitches. Realistic environments, lighting, and materials let stakeholders and prospects experience your ideas before they’re real.

Autodesk Vault
Gain more control over your design data with software for managing the design creation, simulation, and documentation processes.

Autodesk SketchBook Designer
Rapidly explore design concepts and produce stunning illustrations with software that lets you paint and draw in the ultimate digital sketchbook. Experiment with multiple design ideas and communicate them graphically.

Autodesk Mudbox
Harness the power of a world-class 3D sculpting toolset to create forms and shapes. Test the impact of material and texture choices by painting directly on 3D models.

System Requirements

For 32-Bit AutoCAD 2012

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions); Microsoft® Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP2 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions); or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later)
• For Windows Vista or Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; for Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Install from download.

For 64-Bit AutoCAD 2012

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions); Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP2 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions); or Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Install from download.