NOTE: It is not guaranteed that files saved with Beta versions of the individual products in Autodesk Product Design Suite 2014 migrate into the final release versions included in this release of Product Design Suite 2014.
Product keys are required for installation of Autodesk products and are used to differentiate products that are both sold independently and as part of a product suite. For example, installing AutoCAD 2014 as a point product requires product key 001F1, but installing AutoCAD 2014 from the Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2014 requires product key 781F1. The same version of AutoCAD is in both software packages but the product key differentiates one package from the other.
New Product Design Suite 2014
While its suite tiers (Standard, Premium and Ultimate) have not changed, Autodesk went into this release with the opinion that expanding access to its complementary products would better tailor each tier for its target customer. So although this might mean paying for a couple of products you may not use, it establishes a better workflow and is priced more competitively than each product independently.
For example, whereas Standard is meant for someone just getting started with CAD and CAE, Premium is meant for the vast majority of product designers and engineers, regardless of industry. Thus, adding Inventor Premium and its integrated simulation tools should prevent engineers from having to buy additional software to complete their workstation.
Targeted toward industrial designers looking to make highly stylized consumer products is Product Design Suite's Ultimate tier. In this release, Ultimate has gained Navisworks, a large model aggregation and simulation tool focused on whole project management.
Factory Design Suite, on the other hand, targets the ecosystem of manufacturers who are focused not on designing products, but improving the way those products are made. Rather than designing new facilities, these professionals are constantly working to upgrade existing plants to optimize flow and production while incorporating new equipment like robotic arms and conveyors, which requires software that has been designed with factory equipment in mind.
Similar to the Product Design Suite is the addition of tight integration with Revit. Because Revit support was added to Inventor itself (an offering in both design suites), engineers working to optimize their factories can still benefit from the addition, albeit in a different way. Here, a Revit model of a factory in question can be loaded up to provide detailed context into which assets such as robots or belts might be incorporated.
This release has been designed to take us one step closer to an all-inclusive, integrated offering like Adobe's Creative Suite. Whether or not these additional products provide the enhanced workflow users have been asking for, we'll have to wait and see.
In 2014 subscription customers have the benefit of leveraging the cloud tools, which are increasingly being developed to extend the desktop based suites. Amar went on to show that contrary to popular belief, customers want to use more products. Here are some of the facts he presented:
Amar said that suites revenue is up 53% over the last year, showing by continuing to add value to all autodesk suites via growing products & services within the suites is the right path for Autodesk and its customers.
The key to the suite is the Factory Design Utilities that makes the suite ideal for factory managers for planning changes to the factory floor.See this video to see how the Factory Design Utility makes your design process work with ease.
Capture and integrate reality directly into your design process with ReCap reality capture software. ReCap point cloud and image-based 3D modeling software and services work seamlessly with Autodesk design and creation suites, so you can start your design with accurate dimensions and full photo-quality context rather than a blank screen.
The Ultimate edition builds on the Premium design suite and adds tools to make you even more productive and complete your design process. Note that Inventor has been replaced with Inventor Professional and Navisworks Manage replaces Navisworks Simulate.
Reliability Engineering Services (RES) delivers valuable insights to the electronics industry. From battery reliability, product design review to accelerated life testing our experts can solve your challenges.
The in house product & tool design center uses latest CAD/CAM systems integrated with three axis CNC milling machines, CNC wire cut machines, EDM, Surface Grinders, Lathes, Drilling and tapping m/cs, Engraving m/c, Riveting m/c, MIG and Spot Welding & other conventional machines to manufacture in absolute adherence to specifications. For tool & part dimensional verifications, AMP standard room is equipped with 3 axis CMM machines besides other standard room equipments.
While most usability studies should rely on behavior, methods that use self-reported information can still be quite useful to designers. For example, card sorting provides insights about users' mental model of an information space and can help determine the best information architecture for your product, application, or website. Surveys measure and categorize attitudes or collect self-reported data that can help track or discover important issues to address. Focus groups tend to be less useful for usability purposes, for a variety of reasons, but can provide a top-of-mind view of what people think about a brand or product concept in a group setting.
On the other end of this dimension, methods that focus mostly on behavior seek to understand "what people do" with the product or service in question. For example A/B testing presents changes to a site's design to random samples of site visitors but attempts to hold all else constant, in order to see the effect of different site-design choices on behavior, while eyetracking seeks to understand how users visually interact with a design or visual stimulus.
A scripted study of product usage is done in order to focus the insights on specific product areas, such as a newly redesigned flow. The degree of scripting can vary quite a bit, depending on the study goals. For example, a benchmarking study is usually very tightly scripted, so that it can produce reliable usability metrics by ensuring consistency across participants.
Limited methods use a limited form of a product to study a specific or abstracted aspect of the experience. For example, participatory-design methods allow users to interact with and rearrange design elements that could be part of a product experience, in order discuss how their proposed solutions would meet their needs and why they made certain choices. Concept-testing methods employ an expression of the idea of a product or service that gets at the heart of what it would provide (and not at the details of the experience) in order to understand if users would want or need such a product or service. Card sorting and tree testing focus on how the information architecture is or could be arranged to best make sense to participants and make navigation easier.
Studies where the product is not used are conducted to examine issues that are broader than usage and usability, such as a study of the brand or discovering the aesthetic attributes that participants associate with a specific design style.
Another important distinction to consider when making a choice among research methodologies is the phase of product development and its associated objectives. For example, in the beginning of the product-development process, you are typically more interested in the strategic question of what direction to take the product, so methods at this stage are often generative in nature, because they help generate ideas and answers about which way to go. Once a direction is selected, the design phase begins, so methods in this stage are well-described as formative, because they inform how you can improve the design. After a product has been developed enough to measure it, it can be assessed against earlier versions of itself or competitors, and methods that do this are called summative. This following table describes where many methods map to these stages in time:
Abstract:This tutorial will give an introduction into the capabilities of modern acoustic modeling and measurement software as it relates to loudspeaker design, marketing, and application support. Focus is put on: 1. The integration of end-user software with hardware products to create superior user experience, state-of-the-art control features, and high brand recognition. 2. The use of software during the engineering process in order to develop and refine the final product. 3. To leverage the synergies of end-user software with engineering design software. Key areas of the presentation include: 1. Creating and offering tailored prediction software to support end users in loudspeaker system design and setup. 2. Establishing sound system and room-acoustic modeling software as tools for product marketing, case studies, and application support. 3. Implementing cross-platform communication interfaces, e.g., for web access, DSP-based control and monitoring, system EQ, or beam steering. 4. Acquiring, validating, and publishing 3D high-resolution modeling data for loudspeakers, loudspeaker systems and arrays. 5. Integrating numerical algorithms for loudspeaker array systems in order to optimize their mechanical configuration as well as their IIR/FIR filter settings. 6. Using CDPS modeling for feasibility studies and proof of concept investigations. 7. Analyzing and improving loudspeaker performance parameters by means of advanced modeling and measurement tools.
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