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Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2012 Education Software
Make Technical Documentation a Competitive Advantage

Need help explaining and differentiating your products? Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher software is innovative, easy-to-use technical documentation software for creating amazing 2D printed and 3D interactive product documentation. Inventor Publisher can help to increase your competitive advantage by reducing documentation and service costs, accelerating time to market and improving your customers’ experience with your products – even before they purchase.

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• Maximise your return on CAD– Now anyone in your organisation can turn CAD data into compelling content that differentiates your products.
• Import multi-CAD data– Import 3D files from Autodesk® Inventor®, SolidWorks®, CATIA®, UG NX®, ProENGINEER® and more – even 2D blocks and views directly from AutoCAD® software.
• Explain your products visually– Tell the complete story of your product with interactive animation, annotations, dimensions, details, BOM tables and more.
• Launch sooner– Associative updates with Inventor and Microsoft® Word enable you to start product documentation earlier and work concurrently with engineering.
• Engage your customers– Publish to a revolutionary new mobile format or directly to video, Adobe® Flash® technology, 3D PDF, Word and Microsoft PowerPoint® software.

Free* Mobile App
Now you can publish interactive, 3D instructions directly to Apple® iPhone®, iPad™ and iPod touch® mobile devices. Your field technicians, sales teams and customers can have the instructions they need right at their fingertips.
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* Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user licence and services agreement that accompanies download of the software.

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)