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Steve Bedder

Derbyshire, UK

Manufacturing Technical Engineer for the Autodesk Digital Prototyping Solutions, read all about me here.... http://autodeskmfg.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html

Interests: My Family, Photography, Autodesk, Design, Technology, Football, Web Development, Forumla 1, Reading, Hiking, Gardening, Gadgets, Movies

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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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2013 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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BIM 360 Glue On The Go

Accessing models and BIM project data in the field has been a high priority for our construction customers for some time now, and requested more times than I can remember. Around 10 months ago I was asked to product manage a team to build an app that could handle large... Continue reading

Reblogged Oct 10, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk 'Open Doors' Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Event

Learn how a different approach to PLM yields faster, better and more affordable results You've probably heard of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), though if you haven't worked for a huge company, you probably haven't seen it in action. It's nowhere near as common as PDM (Product Data Management). Perhaps you're... Continue reading

Posted Sep 17, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk University 2012

Its that time of the year, time to register for Autodesk University - the largest gathering of Autodesk software users on the planet! This years event will be taking place from 27 November to 29 November at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Centre in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. If... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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UK Based Ellis Furniture are August Inventor of the Month

Autodesk this week named Ellis Furniture, a U.K. based furniture company in business for more than a century as the Autodesk August Inventor of the Month for using Autodesk Inventor as part of Autodesk Product Design Suite to offer greater levels of product customisation in significantly less time. This speed... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk PLM 360 - August Update

Just a quick note to let you know that the August update of Autodesk PLM 360 was pushed out over this last weekend. Users of PLM 360 will see the new and updated features automatically within their tenant and will see a system notification when logging in today..... If you're... Continue reading

Posted Aug 20, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Asset Chain Builder is now live in Factory Asset Warehouse

For users taking advantage of the benefits Factory Design Suite offers when generating layouts, an update to the Factory Asset Warehouse has now enabled the possibility to create Custom Chain Assets. In four simple steps you can use the 'Build Asset Chain' tool to convert your Factory Asset Warehouse content... Continue reading

Posted Aug 1, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Inventor Fusion 2013 available from Mac App Store

Autodesk Inventor Fusion technology for 3D CAD modeling is now available for download in the Mac App Store for the first time. Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac takes advantage of new OS X Mountain Lion capabilities to help increase productivity and transform how designers share designs and receive feedback, whether... Continue reading

Posted Jul 31, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Demir Ali joins Autodesk Technical Sales Team

Demir Ali has joined the Autodesk Northern Europe Technical Sales team to provide guidance, advice and expertise to engineers, designers & manufacturers across the UK & Ireland on their use of design, visualisation, simulation and data management technology. Demir brings with him a great amount of industry knowledge and expertise;... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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British Antarctic Survey uses Autodesk’s Digital Prototyping software

An ambitious British expedition to Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica is using Autodesk digital prototyping software to help discover new answers about the evolution of life and effects of climate change. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) engineers will transport equipment overland for three days to the sub-glacial lake, where they will use... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Is that a bottleneck in my process?

Have you ever had a debrief at the end of project or task within a project to determine where the bottlenecks\delays occurred? I've found myself on the end of questions like "why did we end up late?" and "where did the delay occur?" and had to respond with "leave it... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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New App - Autodesk Sketchbook Ink

Autodesk launched SketchBook Ink yesterday, enabling artists to create stunning, high-resolution ink-style artwork, and export and print large, high-quality images right from the iPad. The SketchBook Ink addition to the SketchBook family increases the number of choices available to artists to express their creative visions in a digital environment. SketchBook... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk 123d Catch for iPad

This week Autodesk announced that 123D Catch is now available for iPad on the App Store. This new free* app lets users take images from their iPad camera and upload them to the Autodesk cloud service that transforms the images into a 3D model. Complementing the desktop and newly released... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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New AutoCAD WS 1.4 for Apple iOS & Android

The latest AutoCAD® WS update is now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, as well as Android mobile devices. Extending the power of AutoCAD software beyond the desktop, AutoCAD WS 1.4 brings a host of highly requested new features to the popular mobile app, including the ability to view... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Have your say on Autodesk Inventor 2013

Autodesk is currently hosting Beta testing for the next release of Inventor, codenamed Goodyear. If you are interested in participating, it's quick and easy to sign up using the URL below to register your interest. You will be able to download a full version of the Inventor 2013 Beta, have... Continue reading

Posted Feb 17, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Inventor User Spotlight: Mindaugas Petrikas

Sometime last year I started following an Autodesk Inventor user who was studying Automotive and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bradford and was posting on Twitter what he was using Autodesk Inventor for along with screen shots of the design he was working on. To cut a long story... Continue reading

Posted Feb 13, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Inventor Interface - Give us your feedback

I received an email yesterday from one of our Autodesk Inventor Product Manager's who is looking for your thoughts and feedback on the changes made to the Autodesk Inventor user interface over the past 4 years. We want to know what you think of the Ribbon Bar interface, Marking Menus,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 9, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Alias Software Helps Volvo Car’s Vision of Luxury Design

Volvo Car's, one of the global car industry’s strongest brands, has revealed that Autodesk design and visualisation software was key to the successful design of its Concept You car. The fully-functional concept model was unveiled to great critical acclaim at the Frankfurt Motor Show last autumn. Following the earlier success... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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A List of Useful Resources

When I started this blog one of the things I did first was create a Blog Roll - a list of useful and informative websites, blogs, people, video sites etc that users of Inventor, Vault, Showcase etc could use to get more help and information. The Blog Roll is still... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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A List of Useful Resources

When I started this blog one of the things I did first was create a Blog Roll - a list of useful and informative websites, blogs, people, video sites etc that users of Inventor, Vault, Showcase etc could use to get more help and information. The Blog Roll is still... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk ForceEffect v2.0 now available

In November last year, Autodesk released a new simulation app for the iPad called ForceEffect, you might remember reading my blog post about it. Last week, ForceEffect v2.0 was released to the Apple iTunes store for download and update with a number of new features added to the app. The... Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Manufacturing Community Invited to Vote for 2011 Inventor of the Year

Today we have kicked off the the official Inventor of the Year voting process. Autodesk is encouraging members of the Autodesk Manufacturing community to visit the community website and choose one of the 2011 Autodesk Inventor of the Month winners as Inventor of the Year. The Autodesk Inventor of the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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60 Second Visualisation with Autodesk Showcase

I thought I'd share with you these couple of images that I created using Autodesk Product Design Suite. The test jig itself was engineered by one of our US based customers using Autodesk Inventor and I re-used their dataset in Autodesk Showcase to create the images. I didn't have to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 26, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Autodesk Inventor Task Scheduler

How many of you use the Autodesk Inventor Task Scheduler? It's one of those tools that in many cases only sees the light of day a couple of times a year - but it's got some great tasks in there can save you lots of time! The Autodesk Inventor Task... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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Audipak show off their use of Autodesk Inventor

One of my colleagues based in Holland sent me this video which one of his customers, Audipak, has produced to promote their products and business, and their use of Autodesk Inventor. Audipak design and manufacture accessories and equipment for audio visual equipment such as flat screen TV's, projectors and audio... Continue reading

Posted Jan 19, 2012 at Autodesk Manufacturing & Digital Prototyping Solutions

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