Autodesk to release Inventor Publisher Mobile
Published 20 September 2010
Posted by Al Dean
We’ve been talking Inventor Publisher for sometime, since getting a quick look at it at Autodesk University last year. Providing a system for taking 3D data and creating work instructions, graphical service instructions and the like, it shipped with Inventor 2011. At the time of the launch, the team also showed how the instructions could be delivered via Apple’s iPhone. The new is that the team is going to shipping these tools later in the year in the form of the Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer app. Along with this, the main application is going to be enhanced with tools to add detail views, section planes, bill of materials (BOMs), and parts lists. It’ll be available the end of September (varying globally) - and we don’t know how much it’ll be because Autodesk has stopped publishing and giving price details of late.
Final note: Rob Cohee has a nifty little video that looks at the system and what it’ll be able to do.
Greetings from Moscow!
I was just at a big Autodesk event here where Jay Tedeschi of Autodesk gave a demonstration of Inventor Publisher Mobile on his iPad. Looked good, although you can’t author on it, just view and explore published models. Ideal for manuals and on-site servicing. I did a quick compare to McNeel’s iRhino, ey looked very similar but Inventor Mobile had a deeper feature set and appeared quicker. Will have a more in-septa look when i get back to the UK. With Autodesk also launching AutoCAD WS for the iPad, it looks like the mobile platforms are really starting to gain traction now.
Mart
Posted by Martyn Day on 23 September 2010 at 06:25 AM