1. Top 10 Autodesk® Inventor® Exchange Apps
Matt Sederberg, Brian Ekins
Autodesk

2. Class Summary Introduce Autodesk Inventor Exchange Store
Share 10 top apps from the store
Introduce Exchange Apps sweepstakes

3. Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:
Understand how the Autodesk Exchange Apps site for Autodesk Inventor works
Download free utilities
Create your own apps for inclusion at the Autodesk Exchange Apps site for Inventor
Explain the benefits of being part of the Autodesk Exchange Apps site for Inventor ecosystem

4. Autodesk Exchange | Apps
Customize your Autodesk product to meet your unique and specific design needs
Safe. Easy. Powerful
Extend the power of Autodesk software
Easily search, browse, purchase, download and use

5. Exchange store for Inventor
72 apps
Free, trial, paid
Immediate solutions

6. Exchange Apps Sweepstakes
Download an app from Autodesk Exchange Apps during the week of AU and have a chance to win a $100 gift card!
10 winners selected!
Contest starts Nov. 26 at 12:01 AM and ends Nov. 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM
Autodesk employees and resellers cannot win
Winners must be USA residents.  Offer is void where prohibited
See sweepstakes rules at

7. Exchange store statistics
>300,000 visits
>100,000 downloads
500 apps and growing
Launched in March 2012
Supports 13 Autodesk products including AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit
Strategy:

8. Top 10 Inventor Exchange apps
Screenshot for Inventor
iCheckIt
IPropWiz
3D Pipe
Inventor Anaglyph
iFileNameForInventor
iProperties Manager  
FlatPatternExtractor  
CAD2Earth
iProperties for Inventor

9. Screenshot for Inventor
Developer: Autodesk
Simplifies image capture inside Inventor
Cost: Free
“If you work with many screenshots in Inventor, this app speeds up so faster.” – Asim Duman

10. iCheckIt

11. iPropWiz Developer: DM Software
Aids in filling out, controlling and managing
Inventor iProperty metadata
Cost: Free 15 day trial, $35-80/seat
“Every experienced Inventor user has a short list of essential addins and tools. iPropWiz is #1 on my list.” - George Radcliffe, Park Industries

12. 3D PIPE for Inventor Developer: www.envisageuk.com
Originally developed for the fast & easy creation of automotive piping using point data as supplied in “car line” format.
Cost: Free
“3D Pipe helps dramatically speed up my design process” – Simon Brace

13. Services Informatiques Benoit Larocque
blarocque.ca
Flat Pattern Extractor (Free) Save time and create all sheet metal flat pattern DWG / DXF files in one click, directly from the assembly document. Flat Pattern Extractor is ideal for laser cutting and nesting software.
Note: A limitation of 20 files extraction per assembly for the free edition.
Flat Pattern Extractor (Full) Price: 99 $ Same as free with no file count limitations
Flat Pattern Extractor (Pro) Price: 399 $ Same as Full plus Material and Gage file naming scheme.
Video Demonstration (Youtube)
Company description:
Website:
Industry segment:
Current Autodesk products used:
Image description:
“The Flat Pattern Extraction Tool works great. It does everything we want it to do and has increased our speed in getting parts out to production.”
Johnny Marin, Spray-tech inc.

14. Inventor Anaglyph Developer: CAD Studio
Creates red-cyan 3D anaglyphs from current
views of 3D CAD models
Cost: Free
Created for our roadshows as a marketing tool
Add-on utility for AutoCAD 2013, Inventor 2013 and Revit 201

15. iFileName for Inventor and Autocad
Developer: Cadspec
Automatic file naming with unlimited numbering sequences in the day to day use of Autodesk Inventor & AutoCAD
Cost: Free
“Loving this App, made my life very easy. I can configure it the way I want. Awesome.” – Deepak Maini, Cadgroup Australia

16. iProperties Manager Developer: DMSi
Checks and reports on ONLY the iProperties which are critical to your design process
Cost: Free
“Absolutely brilliant app. Love the live feedback. Also one single location to type in all the required iProperties is very handy as well.” Deepak Maini, CADgroup Aus.

17. Flat Pattern Extractor
Developer: Services Informatiques Benoit Larocque
Save time and create all sheet metal flat pattern DWG / DXF files in one click, directly from the assembly document. Flat Pattern Extractor is ideal for laser cutting and nesting software.
Cost: Free / $99 / $399
“The Flat Pattern Extraction Tool works great. It does everything we want it to do and has increased our speed in getting parts out to production.”
Johnny Marin, Spray-tech inc.

18. CadToEarth for Inventor
Developer: AMC Bridge LLC
Links Inventor 3D Modeling Environment with
Cloud based Google Earth platform
Cost: Free
“I’ve found CADtoEarth quite useful…It has been most useful in very early stages of projects .. All in all, a worthwhile Add-In though. Thank you!”
Mark Cronin

19. iProperties for Inventor
Developer: AMC Bridge LLC
Provides configurable translation rules to map SolidWorks properties to corresponding Inventor iProperties, which results in a one-click conversion process.
Cost: Free

20. How to publish your own app

21. What is an app? Plug-ins Standalone applications Training tutorials
E-books
Content

22. Publisher info

23. App publishing guidelines
Delight and deliver value to customers
Your product must be relevant to (and usable with) Autodesk® Inventor® 2013 onwards, and must run on any Windows operating system supported by Inventor 2013 (including 32- and 64-bit versions).
Your product must be 'ready to go' as soon as it is installed
Product must be stable
ADN membership – helpful but not required

24. Exchange Apps Sweepstakes
Download an app from Autodesk Exchange Apps during the week of AU and have a chance to win a $100 gift card!
10 winners selected!
Contest starts Nov. 26 at 12:01 AM and ends Nov. 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM
Autodesk employees and resellers cannot win
Winners must be USA residents.  Offer is void where prohibited
See sweepstakes rules at

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