Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2012

Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher is innovative, easy-to-use software for creating an sharing highly-visual and interactive 2D and 3D technical documentation that explains and differentiates your products. Inventor Publisher extends the power of Digital Prototyping beyond engineering, making it easy for anyone to work directly with 3D CAD data to create animated assembly instructions, operating procedures, repair instructions, and more.  You can even publish to iPhone and iPad mobile devices -- so your customers have the instructions they need, right at their fingertips. Inventor Publisher can help you increase competitive advantage by reducing documentation and service costs, accelerating time to market, and delivering a superior customer experience.

Import 3D models — Read data from common 3D design software and file formats, including Autodesk® Inventor® software, CATIA, ProENGINEER, DWG (3D), DWF, STEP, IGES, and SAT.

Flexible authoring tools — Automatically explode 3D assemblies, reposition and change the appearance of components in different process steps and views, add annotations, and more.

Associative updates — Illustrations update quickly when the Inventor model changes.

Animated and interactive publishing — Publish to Adobe® Flash® platform, Autodesk® Design Review software, and AVI videos, enabling viewers to experience your documentation more vividly.

Images, documents, and presentations — Easily output and share individual views or completed technical documentation in common image formats, Microsoft® Word®, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, and Adobe® PDF formats.

Product documentation is a critical part of your ‘whole’ product – in fact it is often the first part of the product that users see. Product documentation ranges from assembly instructions, user manuals, operating procedures, maintenance and repair instructions. In many cases regulations require you to provide documentation – not just for use and assembly, but increasingly for disassembly and end of life disposal.

Documentation is delivered in many ways to different audiences – your manufacturing team, your end customers, your field technicians, distribution and sales partners. Each of these audiences needs technical instructions in a way that they can easily understand, and in a way that will engage them with the product.

Designed specifically for technical communications professionals, Autodesk Inventor Publisher software makes it easy for non-CAD users to work directly with 3D design models to create clear, accurate, and compelling product documentation.

Inventor Publisher allows you to deliver clearer and more comprehensive technical instructions to your customers, by moving from creating 2D text heavy documentation to creating 3D interactive documentation. Helping you deliver more impactful documentation that can give your customers a superior experience with products, increasing their satisfaction and loyalty.

Inventor Publisher can help do for your technical communications process what 3D and Inventor have done for your design and engineering processes.
Inventor Publisher lets you leverage your investment in 3D to extend the benefits Digital Prototyping beyond design and engineering to your technical communications teams, giving them a tool to work directly with 3D design models without the need to learn CAD software.

With everyone working directly from the same 3D CAD model, you can reduce time to market by starting earlier and developing documentation concurrently with design, and finishing earlier because the technical illustrations in Inventor Publisher can update easily when the Inventor 3D design model changes.

Users have the ability to directly import 3D CAD data into Inventor Publisher.   From there, Publisher provides a set of easy tools so technical communications teams – typically non-CAD users –  can author the documentation they need by easily moving components and viewing angles, automatically exploding assemblies, adding annotations, sequences, full-motion animations, and more.

After authoring views and instructions, you need to be able to export the documentation in different formats.  Whether it’s on paper, online in video or Flash, even interacting with the 3D DWF model with Autodesk Design Review free viewer on a factory floor monitor, multiple audiences need to access and understand your product documentation differently, and Inventor Publisher helps you deliver exactly what they need.

Designs often change, and when that happens the documentation has to change too. Inventor Publisher helps make change management easier. Inventor data is associative when the Inventor design model changes, so you can update your documentation in one step, and then republish.

System Requirements:

• OPERATING SYSTEMS Microsoft® Windows XP: Professional (SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) Microsoft® Windows VistaTM: Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (SP2) Microsoft® Windows 7: Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise
• PROCESSOR
•  Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD AthlonTM, AMD OpteronTM, or later (with SSE2 support) 2 GHz or faster
• RAM
• For 64-bit systems (recommended): 2 GB minimum; 4GB or more recommended For 32-bit systems: 1 GB minimum; 2 GB or more recommended
• GRAPHICS Microsoft® Direct3D 9 or Direct3D 10 capable graphics card, with Pixel Shader 3.0 or higher 256MB video RAM minimum; 512 MB or more video RAM recommended
• OTHER
• 1280 x 1024 minimum screen resolution DVD-ROM drive (not required if installing via download) 3.0 GB free hard disk space for installation; additional 3.0 GB required when installing via download Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 (SP2) or higher Microsoft® Word 2007 or 2010 for use with the integrated Word add-in Adobe® Flash® Player 9.0 or higher for viewing help videos