NEW Product - Autodesk® Inventor LT™

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What is it?
Autodesk® Inventor LT™ software is a new member of the Autodesk® Inventor™ family of software products. It helps manufacturers create, share, and edit 3D part designs and DWG™ drawings to satisfy customer and supplier requirements in today’s complex global supply chain.
Inventor LT helps reduce the headaches of working in an environment with many disparate computer-aided design (CAD) systems by enabling users to import, export, create, and modify 3D part models in leading native and neutral file formats to meet the increasing need for communicating in 3D.
Inventor LT is being introduced as a Technology Preview release and is available for a limited time as a free download

What are the differences between Inventor and Inventor LT?
Inventor LT provides the same 3D part modeling, import/export, documentation, and rendering capabilities available in the Autodesk® Inventor™ 2008 product line. Since Inventor LT is based on a similar user interface and technology as Inventor 2008, all the files created and 3D design skills learned in Inventor LT are fully transferable to Inventor software.
Key capabilities available in other products in the Inventor product family that are not available in Inventor LT include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 3D assembly modeling
• Specialty design tools such as:
  • Sheet metal design
  • Frame Generator
  • Design Accelerator
  • Weldment design
• Autodesk Inventor Professional capabilities:
  • Dynamic simulation
  • Routed systems
• Integration with Autodesk® Vault for data management
• Customization via application programming interface (API) access or third-party add-in applications
• Network license
• Side-by-side installation with Inventor 2008
• Inclusion of AutoCAD® software

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Who would use Inventor LT?

• Professionals in virtually any manufacturing-related industry who need to create, share, and edit 3D parts from any of a number of common leading 3D CAD programs, including Inventor, PTC, Unigraphics, and SolidWorks ® (Parasolid) software
• Companies that have one or two licenses of the preceding 3D packages but are using them only for sharing 3D files
• AutoCAD users who need to exchange data with these systems but don’t need the full functionality of Inventor and aren’t already on the path to 3D