Product documentation is a critical part of your product, ranging from assembly instructions to user manuals, operating procedures, and repair instructions. Too often, documentation is 2D, text-heavy, and confusing. Because technical communication teams are disconnected from engineering, the documentation process often does not start until very late, creating a bottleneck in your product launch process and slowing your time to market.
Autodesk® has created a new product for creating compelling assembly and technical product documentation that can be viewed on a mobile phone, online, on paper, or on a factory floor monitor. Autodesk Inventor® Publisher, available as part of the 2011 release, is designed specifically for technical communication professionals. This software makes it easy for non-CAD users to work directly with 3D design models to create clear, accurate, and compelling product documentation, helping you get to market faster.
Inventor Publisher gives documentation teams the ability to directly import 3D CAD data in a variety of common formats, providing access to accurate engineering data in a way that can easily be leveraged. Next, Inventor Publisher provides a set of easy-to-use tools which allow the creation of the exact view, appearance, and animation sequences they need for assembly or disassembly instructions. The new R1 Update for Inventor Publisher provides users additional ways to explain their ideas, including the option to have a bill of materials integrated right in with the graphics. After authoring views and instructions, Inventor Publisher lets users publish to a wide range of mobile, interactive, animated, or static formats.
Inventor Publisher provides documentation teams a tool that works directly with 3D design models, without the need to learn CAD software. The technical illustrations in Inventor Publisher update automatically when the Autodesk Inventor 3D design model changes, allowing documentation to be developed concurrently with the design. This allows the documentation process to begin earlier, reducing the time to market. The R1 Update for Inventor Publisher is fully compatible with Autodesk Vault data management software, allowing users to benefit from valuable revision control and workflow management capabilities.
Inventor Publisher allows users to deliver clearer and more comprehensive technical instructions to their customers by moving from creating 2D, text heavy documentation to creating 3D, interactive and mobile documentation. This will give customers a superior experience with your products, increasing their satisfaction and loyalty. IThe R1 Update for Inventor Publisher provides three new publishing options: vector (SVG) graphics, 3D PDF, and mobile viewing. The free
Inventor Publisher Mobile (IPM) Viewer app for iPad™, iPhone®, and iPod touch® allows field technicians, sales teams, and clients to have the information they need at their fingertips, without having to carry around a hard copy manual.
- Support for most common 3D formats, including Autodesk Inventor, DWG™, STEP, IGES, SAT, ProENGINEER, CATIA, and DWF™
- Support for applications such as Adobe® Acrobat®, Adobe Flash®, Autodesk Design Review, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft Word, and a variety of common image formats such as JPG and TIFF
- Extensive publishing tools, options, and flexible templates provide the ability to tailor the results to a specific purpose
- Allows publishing for use with a wide range of applications, viewers, and media players, making the documentation accessible by anyone