Autodesk AutoCAD Inventor Routed Systems Suite 2011

Use Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems software to accelerate the design for routed elements, including tubing, piping, and flexible hose.

Offers all the core functionality of AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2011 plus automated tools for designing routed systems, including complex tube and pipe runs as well as electrical cable and harness design.

Key Features in AutoCAD Inventor Routed Systems Suite 2011:

Tube and Pipe Design

Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems software provides rules-based routing tools that select the correct fittings and helps the pipe run to comply with your standards for segment length, round-off increments, and bend radius.

• Rigid Tube Routing - Quickly create rigid tubes with superior control over the shape, bend angles, and radii. Create rigid tubes with an arbitrary number of bends and variable custom bend angles and radii.
• Tube and Pipe Styles - Increase the quality and manufacturability of designs by helping to ensure that tube and pipe runs automatically adhere to preset design standards. Create tube and pipe styles to support the use of threaded, welded, and flanged connections.
• Creating Runs - Automatically populate piping routes with real parts that adhere to manufacturing standards. The Populate Route tool turns tube, pipe, and hose routes into physical pipe runs, automatically placing fittings, pipe segments, rigid tubes, and hoses as needed.
• Hygienic Pipe Runs - Design process lines that comply with sterility and hygiene standards required for process equipment in the pharmaceutical, food, and personal care industries.
• Tube and Pipe Documentation - Create manufacturing deliverables without redrawing—reducing errors and associated costs. Fully associative documentation for tube and pipe runs provides assembly drawings that update whenever a change is made to the 3d design.

Cable and Harness Design

Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems software streamlines cable and harness design by leveraging wire list information imported from schematic design packages such as AutoCAD@ Electrical.

• Functional Harness Design - Design cable and harness components in 3D to reduce manufacturing problems, facilitate output of manufacturing drawings, and avoid late-stage engineering change orders.
• Wire List Input - Maintain electrical design intent and reduce errors when importing wire lists into the assembly. Quickly import large wire lists from AutoCAD® Electrical or third-party schematic design applications, with detection and correction of missing connectors, pins, and wire definitions.
• Wire Routing - Quickly route thousands of wires while exerting control over the paths of critical wires. Inventor supports manual, interactive, and automatic routing with accurate wire length calculation.

Full integration with the bill of materials (BOM) tools in Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems software helps you make sure that your BOM accurately represents the electrical components in your design.

• Ribbon Cables - Reduce errors in the design of electronic equipment by incorporating ribbon cables in your 3D digital prototype.
• Harness Validation - Improve cable quality and manufacturability and prevent costly recalls and product failures by adhering to design standards. Inventor software automatically calculates quality parameters, including bundle diameter, bend radius, and wire lengths whenever you make changes to the harness.
• Harness Documentation - Quickly and easily create manufacturing documentation before you build the first article. Since cable and harness geometry is native to Inventor, you can create assembly documentation showing accurate cable and harness placement details.
• Connector Authoring - Set up company-specific connector libraries to encourage the use of preferred connectors in the design of electrical products.

System requirements:

For General Part and Assembly Design (Typically Fewer than 1,000 Parts)

• Microsoft® Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise, or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP2) (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, or Microsoft® Windows XP Professional (SP3) or Professional x64 Edition (SP2) (1,2)
• Intel® Pentium® 4, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon®, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, or AMD Opteron™, or later (3)
• 2 GB RAM or more (4)
• Microsoft® Direct3D 10® or Direct3D 9® capable graphics card (5)
• DVD-ROM drive (6)
• Microsoft® Mouse-compliant pointing device
• 1280 x 1024 or higher screen resolution
•  Internet connection for web downloads and Subscription Aware access
•  Adobe Flash Player 10 (7)
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.x through 8
• Microsoft® Excel 2003 through 2007 for iComponents, thread customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs