System requirements for Autodesk Vault 2014 products

For 32-bit Autodesk Data Management Server 2014

• Windows® 8 Professional or Enterprise edition (Vault Basic only)
• Windows® 7 Business, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise[1] edition (SP1)[1]
• Windows® 2008 Server Standard or Enterprise edition (SP2)
• Microsoft® Windows 2008 Small Business Server Standard or Premium edition

For 64-bit Autodesk Data Management Server 2014

• Windows® 8 Professional or Enterprise edition (Vault Basic only)
• Windows® 7 Business, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise[1] edition (SP1)[1]
• Windows® Server 2012 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter
• Windows® 2011 Small Business Server Standard or Enterprise
• Windows 2008 Server Standard or Enterprise (SP2)
• Windows 2008 Server R2 Standard or Enterprise (SP1)
• Windows 2008 Small Business Server Standard or Premium

Autodesk Data Management Server requirements
Single site requirements

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, Workgroup, Standard or Enterprise edition (SP3) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, Standard, or Enterprise edition (SP2) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard & Enterprise (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor, 2 GHz or higher (Pentium 4 or AMD 64-bit dual-core processor, 3 GHz or higher recommended)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 100 GB disk space (200 GB recommended)

Replication Requirements

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise edition (SP3) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard & Enterprise edition (SP2) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard or Enterprise (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Pentium 4 or Athlon, 3 GHz or higher (Pentium 4 or AMD 64-bit dual-core processor, 3 GHz or higher recommended)

Remote site for multisite replication—ADMS installation

• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 150 GB disk space (300 GB recommended)

Full replication—ADMS and SQL installation

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 300 GB disk space (500 GB recommended)

Microsoft SharePoint integration

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Standard and Enterprise editions

For 32-bit Autodesk Vault Client 2014

• Windows 7 Home, Business, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise edition (SP1)
• Windows 8 Professional or Enterprise edition

For 64-bit Autodesk Vault Client 2014

• Windows 7 Home, Business, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise edition (SP1)
• Windows 8 Professional or Enterprise edition

Additional Autodesk Vault Client requirements

• Pentium 4 or Athlon, 1.6 GHz or higher (2 GHz or higher recommended)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 6 GB disk space (10 GB recommended)

For Microsoft Office add-in (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Microsoft® Office® 2007 (SP2)
• Office 2010 (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit)

For Microsoft Outlook add-in

• Microsoft® Office® Outlook 2007 (SP2)
• Outlook 2010 (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit)

Browser

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8, 9, or 10, Mozilla® Firefox® 18, Apple® Safari® 5, or Google Chrome™ 23 web browser

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1. Operating system is not supported in a replicated environment

Posted By Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

3ds Max Design Visual Storytelling Survey for Engineers

This short survey is only for those who have used, are using or want to use 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design for purposes *other* than entertainment production (film, TV, games). If you are in entertainment production, then you will have to wait until we develop a survey specific for those needs.

In many cases, the users we’re seeking will work with CAD data or work in places where CAD products are used. We're trying to understand what problems you face in this process and what could be done to improve things. You don’t have to be a visualization expert to answer this survey, we’re interested in knowing if there are problems we could solve that would encourage you to use 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design more in your projects.

Some of users work on a range of industries, including entertainment. If you spend more than 25% of your time working with non-entertainment productions, then please fill out the survey.

We're going to ask you about 10 questions about your work/role and then no more than 3-4 questions about what things we could improve. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes of your time. Thanks in advance for contributing.

Follow the link for the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8VK29R8

Posted by Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

Want to see Autodesk PLM 360 in action?

Have you heard about PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) being used at large design, engineering & manufacturing customers and the benefits it has to offer? But when looking into how you could use PLM within your organisation, you've seen a price tag and implementation thats made you cringe?

Well if you want to find out how you can implement PLM within your organisation to help you streamline processes within Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Projects etc, improve collaboration internally & externally and do all this at a fraction of the cost and implementation, you should attend one of the free Autodesk PLM 360 webinars.
If you've never seen or heard of Autodesk PLM 360, this free 60 minute webinar will give you enough of an introduction so you can see exactly how it can be used within your organisation for:

• Engineering Design
• Manufacturing
• Change Management
• LEAN
• Quality
• Supply Chain
• New Product Introduction
• Regulatory Compliance
• Project\Program Management
• Plus much more

If you hre looking to improve the processes within your business, implementing LEAN initiatives or feel that you could be doing things better, then these webinars are for you.
You can join the 60 minute webinar from the comfort of your own chair and office and hear from Autodesks Gavin England who will provide an introduction and live demonstration of PLM 360's capability as well as how it is already helping many businesses in the UK, Europe and Worldwide.

To register and confirm your free place on the webinar, use the link below....
http://www.autodeskplm360.co.uk/events/an-invitation-to-discover-autodesk-plm-360.html

Enjoy the webinar!

Posted by Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

Learn more about 3ds Max 2014

In the 3ds Max Expert Challenge on March 27, 2013, Clint Lewis, Chris Murray, Joe Gunn, Pierre Felix Breton, and Chris Vienneau answered live questions from 3ds Max users. Learn more about 3ds Max 2014 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5dr9OQNbk&feature=player_embedded

Posted by Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

Removing the Car Park Reflection Image from Polished Chrome Materials in Inventor

When you have a part with a polished chrome reflection these normally displays and image of a car park, or a man sitting on a Motorbike.

In the following screen shots of the space mouse you will see the difference between a reflected and non-reflected material finish.

1. Reflecting Chrome material displaying car park reflection.

2. Reflecting Chrome material displaying no car park reflection.

 

3. This is done by going into Inventor and Selecting on the Tools Ribbon Tab> Application Options> Colours Tab> Reflection Environment and selecting browse next to ParkingLot.dds.

4. Now open/select the Chrome.dds.  This will now permanently display all reflections a standard chrome, without displaying the car park image.

Posted By Kevin Walker (Application Engineer)

The Unfold Event

 

 

Want to learn more about the 2014 releases and see the software in action? Watch the...

 

Maya

 

3ds Max

 

Softimage

 

Mudbox

 

MotionBuilder

 

Workflow demos from the Unfold event in Montreal:

http://area.autodesk.com/2014unfold/live/unfoldevent/workflow.html

Posted by Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

Congratulations to UK based Ellis Furniture who were voted as 2012 Inventor of Year

Customers with a wide variety of tastes, from luxury hotels to government institutions, have relied on U.K.-based Ellis Furniture for their high-quality furniture needs for over a century. Due to the company’s ongoing high standard for quality customized furniture and continued dedication to new and innovative technology, the Autodesk Manufacturing community has recognized Ellis as the 2012 Inventor of the Year.
Ellis was chosen the 2012 Inventor of the Year after a month-long voting process throughout February. The competition, which set the record this year for the highest number of participating votes, included all 2012 Autodesk Inventor of the Month recipients — each of which rose to the challenge to develop the most innovative design and engineering advancements with standout products that achieved a practical need.

The Autodesk Inventor of the Month program identifies the most innovative among hundreds of thousands of designers and engineers that invent with Autodesk Digital Prototyping tools. Last year’s recipients leveraged a variety of Autodesk solutions, including Autodesk Product Design Suite, Autodesk Factory Design Suite, the Autodesk Simulation software portfolio and Autodesk PLM 360.

Ellis, Autodesk’s August 2012 Inventor of the Month, uses Autodesk Inventor software as part of Autodesk Product Design Suite to offer customers greater levels of product customization and to cut time from the company’s manufacturing process by 80 percent. This time-savings and increased design speed enables Ellis to rapidly explore a number of options for its customers, creating quality custom furniture that fits each customer’s precise needs and is built to last a lifetime.

Read More:

http://inthefold.typepad.com/in_the_fold/2013/03/autodesk-manufacturing-community-selects-ellis-furniture-as-2012-inventor-of-year.html

Posted By Andy Roe (Application Engineer)

Request the features you want with Ideastation

Its the age old question, "When are we going to get this feature....why hasn't that been put into this product.." and the common response I give is "Well have you asked for it?" and usually the answer is no. Although in all fairness it's never really been that obvious how it can be done.

My answer used to be "Please log your request using the product feedback page" (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794).

This is one area that Autodesk Product Managers keep tabs but in all fairness wasn't the easiest page to find.

If you 're a user of the Autodesk forums you may of noticed a change of late, which is the addition of IdeaStations. So you now have a relatively interactive way to log new feature requests. If an idea gets picked up for scoping then you'll see the status change from New Idea to Under Review, Accepted and so more depending on how succesful the request is.

Read More:

http://autodeskmfg.typepad.com/blog/2012/11/request-the-features-you-want-with-ideastation.html

Posted By Andy Roe (Application Engineer)