Inventor Publisher
Need help explaining and differentiating your products? Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher software is innovative, easy-to-use technical documentation software for creating amazing 2D printed and 3D interactive product documentation. Inventor Publisher can help to increase your competitive advantage by reducing technical documentation and service costs, accelerating time to market, and improving your customers’ experience with your products—even before they purchase.
Simplify the creation of technical manuals, assembly instructions, user guides, and other interactive technical communication with our easy to use Import-Author-Publish solution.
- Maximize your return on CAD—Now anyone in your organization can turn CAD data into compelling content that differentiates your products.
- Import multi-CAD data—Import 3D data from Autodesk® Inventor®, Fusion DWG, Autodesk® 123D™, SolidWorks®, Google SketchUp, CATIA®, UG NX®, ProENGINEER®, DWG®, DWF®, STEP, IGES, FBX, OBJ, and SAT software, as well as 2D blocks from AutoCAD® software files.
- Explain your products visually—Tell the complete story of your product with interactive animation, annotations, dimensions, details, BOM tables, and more.
- Launch sooner—Associative updates with Inventor and Microsoft® Word® enable you to start product documentation earlier and work concurrently with engineering.
- Engage your customers—Publish to a revolutionary new mobile format or directly to video, Adobe® Flash® technology, MP4, WMV, 3D PDF, SVG, Word and Microsoft® PowerPoint® software.
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Creating Effective Instructions This video was created in Autodesk Inventor Publisher for Autodesk University 2011. It is based on the design by industrial designer David Fustino. It goes along with the linked PDF, which covers how it was created and the benefit of using Inventor Publisher when designing your products. |
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Autodesk Inventor Publisher Basics This demonstration provides an overview of Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2011. It explains the system layout, concepts on how assembly instructions and technical documentation can be created with the program and how to export the results to several different formats for public distribution. (From John Helfen) |
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Service Documentation Service documentation helps users and technicians know how to repair, upgrade, or maintain products. This keeps products in service longer, avoiding the need for frequent replacements and diverting material from waste streams. As a designer, thinking about design for repair and disassembly in the early stages of design, and being deliberate about your service documentation can inspire great sustainable design thinking. |
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Inventor Publisher for Product Lifetime Inventor Publisher can create disassembly instructions and service documentation to keep your products alive longer. This series of demos introduces you to the basic interface and features of Inventor Publisher to help you get started quickly and use it on your own projects. |
Project Gallery Examples
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Easy Access LCD Monitor The Easy Access LCD Monitor is a contest winning student design aimed at improving reparability of LCD monitors. |
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Passive Heat Recovering Ventilation System Ventive S is a passive heat-exchanging ventilation system designed for easy home retrofits to increase ventilation while lowering heating requirements. |
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EcoFridge Saves Time and Energy A team of engineering students developed a cost-competitive, environmentally friendly refrigerator. Learn about their results. |
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Sustainable Design
Everything in the built environment is designed, from the smallest computer chip to the largest city. With Autodesk software, users can reduce the environmental impacts of their designs. Visit the Autodesk Sustainable Design Center: autodesk.com/sustainabledesign.
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