Autodesk AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2011

AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite streamlines the design of plastic injection molds by including easy-to-use mold design features that work directly from Inventor 3D models of plastic parts.

With its intuitive mold design workflow, Autodesk Inventor Tooling guides you through the mold design process in a way that is natural for the experienced user, while at the same time supportive for the novice.

Inventor guides you through the mold design process and automates a number of complex operations, such as patching openings and runoff/shutoff surface generation.

Simulate and optimize your mold design before machining with Moldflow plastic flow analysis tools. Use them to determine material flow rates, suggest ideal gate locations, assess shrinkage, and establish process parameters. Mold analysis allows you to optimize your design and minimize the number of mold iterations, saving time and mone.

Leverage standard mold base components. Autodesk Inventor Mold Design software provides an extensive collection of vendor catalogs of standard mold bases and components so you won’t have to spend time modeling them.

When your mold designs are complete, Inventor software uses your validated digital model to automatically generate the related engineering drawings and bills of materials (BOMs).

Autodesk Inventor Tooling

• Works directly from the digital prototype

1. fully associative
2. facilitates collaboration between design and tooling engineering

• Offers the user an intuitive mold design workflow

• Automates various mold design tasks, such as:

1. hole patching
2. run-off surface creation
3. core/cavity generation

• Includes integrated Moldflow analysis functionality

1. suggested gate locations
2. flow time
3. shrinkage
4. molding process parameters

• Provides extensive libraries of materials, mold bases and mold base components
• Automates the generation of engineering drawings of mold design

System requirements:

For General Part and Assembly Design (Typically Fewer than 1,000 Parts)

• Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise, or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP2) (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, 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™, 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 customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs