The State of the Union Addressed

Two score and something days ago I posted last and it has been far too long...The whole face of the world has changed and I haven't placed anything on here about it. Autodesk has released it's 2010 line up and it is huge....200+ Enhancements to Inventor alone. Sheet metal is incredible...all I have to say is 2 minute square to rounds....the new plastics features are amazing with help from Moldflow which is an Autodesk company now...Sorry Solidworks :(
If you all could see me as I'm writing this there is a smile they would have to surgically remove on my face. Multi-part FEA....yep I said it Multi-part FEA....built into Inventor...no seperate programs to open and transition back and forth to, no extra program taking up valueable memory. Oh.....did I mention the new interface...think if Office 2007 and Inventor had a kid, it would be Inventor 2010. I know some people cringe at the new interfaces...but this one doesn't take any time to get used to. (The answer is yes...you can change it back to classic style if you REALLY must....Application Options is where you go).

Now for the thing that wipes the smile off of all of our faces....the economy.
Autodesk knows we're all hurting because of the state of things...some of us have experienced a reduction in hours, some of us have had to take a pay cut, and some have lost our jobs. Like they said in Batman Begins, "Why do we fall....so we can learn to pick ourselves up". Autodesk has graciously extended it's student edition to everyone for 13 months on several different programs...AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Inventor Professional, and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This will allow you to stay up on technology in your down time. They are also offering several other programs but rather than go into all of that I'll let you read the official stuff here...http://pressreleases.autodesk.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=553%3C%2Ftd%3E.

Stay tuned for more shortly.

Thanks,
Scott