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

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

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

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

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

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 http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/Public/AU

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 http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com Strategy:

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

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

iCheckIt

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

How to publish your own app

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

Publisher info

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

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 http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/Public/AU

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