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Autodesk Inventor for Education

Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design software includes CAD productivity and design communication tools that can help you reduce errors, communicate more effectively, and deliver more innovative product designs faster. The Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that can validate the form, fit, and function of a design as you work and unites direct modeling and parametric workflows so you always have the right tool for the job.

Inventor can help you:

• Integrate data from AutoCAD® software and 3D data into a single digital model and create a virtual representation of the final product
• Streamline projects that require opening third-party CAD data
• Improve productivity by automating repetitive design workflows
• Better collaborate with accurate 2D documentation and 3D visualization tools
• Efficiently and securely exchange design data with integrated data management
• Optimize material selection based on environmental impact, cost, and performance to make better sustainable design decisions

Autodesk Inventor Professional for Education

Autodesk Inventor Professional 3D CAD software can help you design, visualize, and simulate a more complete digital representation of your end product. It includes all of the core 3D mechanical design, CAD productivity, and design communication functionality of Autodesk Inventor plus extended capabilities for creating tooling for manufacturable plastic parts, complex routed systems design, and optimizing and validating the performance of a design digitally, minimizing the need to test the design with physical prototypes

Easy-to-use and tightly integrated motion simulation and stress analysis tools in Autodesk Inventor Professional can help you predict how the design will work under real-world conditions so you can get better products to market faster. Autodesk Inventor Professional also automates key aspects of the design of injection molds for plastic parts, complex tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and harness designs to help you minimize errors and gain an edge over your competition.

For Autodesk Inventor 2012 Windows Users
For General Part and Assembly Design (Typically Fewer than 1,000 Parts)
Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise edition, or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate edition (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows XP Professional (SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) (1,2)
Intel® Pentium® 4, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon®, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD Opteron™ processor or later (3)
2 GB RAM or more (4)
Microsoft® Direct3D 10® or Direct3D 9® capable graphics card (5)
DVD-ROM drive (6)
Microsoft® Mouse-compliant pointing device
1280 x 1024 or higher screen resolution
Internet connection for web downloads and Subscription Aware access
Adobe Flash Player 10 (7)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.x through 8
Microsoft® Excel 2003 through 2007 for iComponents, thread customisation and spreadsheet-driven designs
For Complex Models, Complex Mould Assemblies and Large Assemblies (Typically More than 1,000 Parts)
Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2) or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
AMD64 or Intel® 64 processor
8 GB RAM or more
CAD workstation-class graphics card

For Autodesk Inventor 2012 Macintosh UsersBoot Camp
You can install Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software on a Mac® computer on a Windows partition. The system must use Boot Camp® to manage a dual OS configuration and meet the minimum system requirements.
Mac OS® X 10.6.x
Boot Camp V 2.0 or higher
Intel-based Mac (64-bit Windows Vista requires an Intel Core™ 2 duo or Xeon processor)
3 GB RAM (recommend 4 GB for 32-bit Windows OS, 8 GB or more for 64-bit Windows OS)
20 GB disk space for Apple OS partition or Windows OS partition
Mac Virtualisation on Parallels Desktop
Autodesk Inventor Professional can be used on the Mac via Parallels Desktop for Mac without having to boot directly into the Windows OS, so it is easy to switch between platforms. The system must meet the following requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6.x
Parallels Desktop 5.0 (5.0.9344 or higher)
Intel-based Mac (64-bit Windows Vista requires an Intel Core 2 duo or Xeon processor)
Minimum 4 GB RAM (6 GB system memory for 32-bit Windows OS, 8 GB or more for 64-bit Windows OS recommended)
Minimum 40 GB available disk space (100 GB recommended)