Bill Fane

Bill Fane

Software Reviewer: Mechanical design engineer and former mechanical engineering instructor at British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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If you use any Autodesk products at all then you need to put at least one trip to Autodesk University (AU) on your bucket list. 
If you use any Autodesk products at all then you need to put at least one trip to Autodesk University (AU) on your bucket list. Before you begin hitting your boss up for next year’s trip, be ready with a few answers because they are bound to reply “Yeah, right, you want me to pay for a trip to Las Vegas so you can attend some classes.”
It has been said that a word is worth .001 of a picture, which is precisely why engineering drawings were created by the ancient Romans. 
Autodesk 123D is aimed primarily at people who have an idea for a one-off or very low volume item and can design it, but lack the necessary skills or equipment to fabricate it.
The next release of almost any piece of software typically includes about 200 new or enhanced features, and so I was more than a little surprised when the “What’s New” list for Autodesk Inventor 2012 Pro only had 65 entries.
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