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Includes two main elements; a spinning platter and an actuator arm. The platter is a circular magnetic disk containing tracks and sectors that retain data. The actuator arm moves across the platter to read and write data.

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Its really a great software which help to show ur talent in designing, great interface with system so its a great invent in machine drawing and animation.

It also have a student forum in which students download autodesk softwares with 3 year license and tutorials of it .It is comparable with all new versions of windows , mac, linux.

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I'm using Autodesk inventor for more than 3 years. I would say this is very bad CAD software which is used in designing of mechanical 3D models and drawings. And does not supporting in handling of the large Assembly models as well drawings.

Every time without control it is getting crashed. Also there is a error saying that to send this error to Autodesk they will solve. But I'm really very disappointed by loosing all the works without saving the tasks.

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I hate Autodesk and its most recent crypto-fascist demon-spawn, Inventor.  For that matter, I likewise feel for all those suckers out there who have been fooled into thinking that Inventor is the greatest thing since sliced bread.  It is far from a great thing, period.

Personally, I am of the opinion that Solidworks, while more expensive, is a much more robust program.  Whereas Inventor seems to strive to keep portions of the old AutoCAD paradigm alive - particularly with weighty drop-downs - Solidworks strives to make the workflow streamlined by organizing like operations together.  The sketch and assembly'mats' system in Solidworks is much less buggy than the'constraint' system for sketches and assemblies in Inventor.  Many engineers I know prefer Inventor over Solidworks, saying that Solidworks'does too much for you.'  That, frankly, is B.S.  They forget that added complexity, duplicity of operations and cryptic, if not a downright abysmal help file, are really not good things.

Inventor is far too bloated for its own good, following the standard of its progeny, Autocad.  I don't need a Sketch Doctor.  I don't need a 'move face' menu button when there is already a move command that the functionality(if it worked properly in the first place) could be combined into.  I don't need a goddamned SteeringWheel!  I don't need Save, Save As and Save Copy As!  Combine those, too! And how about these "iMate Glyphs"?  Put the intelligence in the whole mating system, not the most cryptic.   Jump off Apple's phallus, Autodesk.  And while you're at it, grow up!  If I ever meet you hacks in real life, prepare for an acid pie assault to the face.

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This is the very first time I am writing a review on a technical topic.

I had been using the very famous software AutoCad for 9 years.Since I started my career with this very software,I love it and also I respect it.Also my regards to AUTODESK the US based company that developed this software long back.

Very recently AUTODESK has launched a new software viz. INVENTOR. It has been there for around three years and I have beeb using it for last two years.

While Autocad is specially meant for drafting purpose regardless of the field it is used for.Inventor is a software specially designed for mechancal engineering.

You can make 2D as well as 3D draftings in AutoCad..

INVENTOR allows you many features alongwith 2D/3D solid modelling.Here you get n number of possibilities for designing a machine!It is very user friendly.

Each and every machine is an assembly of various components.Here you can first make such components first and then you can assemble them in a separate file which is an assembly file. It can manage thousands of components and mammoth assemblies.Multiple design view representations can be saved in an assembly file.

Flexibility and Adoptivity are two very salient features.Flexibility can give you different states of an assembly while adoptivity gives you the freedom to resize any part as per your need.

Let me give a simple example here.-

Driving and driven pulleys of different diameters are located at a certain distance among them in a machine..Belts or ropes are to be mounted on the pulleys.Now here if you apply adoptivity to the belts,they will change their total length according to the change in the center distance and the diameters of the pulleys !

This particular feature has saved our plenty of time in designing some parts in a machine.Thanks AutoDesk.

INVENTOR enables you to work in different modules like part,assembly,drawing and presentation.In order to place the components ( part files) in an assembly,constraints are used.In presentation you can animate the parts or sub-assemblies and record the file in avi or mpeg format.You can export INVENTORfiles to AutoCad as well as IGES and STEP formats.

Physical properties like mass,volume and surface area can be calculated after finishing an assembly.And the beautiful part is if any modifications are made,the properties update themselves ! !

These are only some tips of the iceberg.

For developing ,designing a machine AUTODESK INVENTOR is ultimate!

Right now I have been working on version 9 .Very soon we are going to install the latest version.

Once again thanks a lot….. AUTODESK!

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