Look for iMap for Inventor Technology Preview on Autodesk Labs

By DE Editors

New on Autodesk Labs (San Rafael, CA) is the iMap for Inventor Technology Preview, introducing powerful new navigation capabilities for Autodesk Inventor users to navigate the various components of their digital prototypes.

What iMap brings to the table are intuitive, graphical views that help Inventor users visualize, understand, and control constraints and relationships that play important roles within Inventor assemblies.

iMap offers the following (from the press material):

• Skeletal iMap views help identify and modify complete assembly structure, including sub-assemblies, and enable simplified skeletal modeling workflows.
• Constraint iMap views help interactively investigate, create, and manipulate key relationships and constraints.

With these new iMap views, Inventor users can work with critical interactions between components in their assemblies. Sometimes these assembly interactions can be time consuming and cause delays in workflows,  especially when dealing with an assembly that has been drafted by someone other than the user.

iMap is available as a free download from Autodesk Labs. (Note that free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of the software.) The product iMap for Inventor Technology Preview works with 32-bit versions of Autodesk Inventor 2009 software, as part of Autodesk Inventor Suite, Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems Suite, Autodesk Inventor Simulation Suite, or Autodesk Inventor Professional. It is not compatible with Inventor LT software.

iMap functionality will work with all language versions of Inventor 2009. However, the Autodesk Labs and iMap user interfaces are in English only. All copies of iMap are programmed to expire on April 1, 2009.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.