Today it was announced that the next version of Woodwork for Inventor will be available which now includes the new CAM functionality and new enhancements. A summary are outlined below.
HOME USE LICENCE
Each commercial license with annual subscription can now receive an additional license for home usage during the duration of the subscription.
THE MATERIAL & APPEARANCE ASSETS WIZARD
Now the user can centralise the Autodesk Inventor material and appearance assets library to a new location on the network drive or their own computer drive without breaking the links in the material and appearance library and in appearance assets definition, which are written into the Autodesk Inventor components.
SKELETON DRESS UP
This new tool allows us to speed up a skeleton design process significantly. The user can create quickly by using the dress up tool to create furniture volumes with panels, make a parallel panel and to trim these panels.
Main furniture volume
Main volume dressed in panels and trimming according to construction requirements
This is how the construction of the furniture looks without main furniture volume
Bodies – panels of the part are converted in a separate combination of dressed and the final product design made assigning materials and furniture.
DRAWING EXPORT TO NEW FORMATS
Capability to export Drawings into new additional formats – PDF, DWG, DXF and DWF.
USER FRIENDLINESS
Easier and faster software update procedure. Once installed there is no longer the need to uninstall Woodwork for Inventor software before installing a newer version. We can simply apply the update which does not overwrite your custom files. Also, the automatic regeneration of the Home licenses in a case of Subscription extension of Commercial license.
NEW CAM FUNCTIONALITY
- Operation status review and direct switching to CAM environment from the Assembly level.
- Slant manufacturing options on 5x axis machines.
- Improved operation Set up and Geometry recognition algorithms.
- Expanded technology edit options from technology browser.
- Spline contour support.
- 2D sketch processing as work path.
- New post-processors.
- Improved tool landing, lead in / lead out controls and description.
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