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News Release from: Autodesk
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 October 2003
Inventor user conference proves great
success
The announcement of the customer design contest prize winners was one of many highlights at the first Autodesk Inventor UK and Ireland user conference, held at the University of Warwick.
The announcement of the customer design contest prize winners was one of many highlights at the first Autodesk Inventor UK and Ireland user conference, held at the University of Warwick Attended by 260 personnel from 182 companies, the event attracted customers ranging from BBC Research and Development, Jaguar, Cooper Cameron and Fujitsu Services to the British Antarctic Survey and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Sep 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Neil Dunsmuir, Product Marketing Manager for Autodesk Inventor said he detected a "coming of age" among the Inventor user community: "It was great to see so many companies using Inventor in production stages, not just in a pilot environment.
"Also, the sheer diversity and sophistication of the entries to the 2003 customer design contest was highly encouraging.
For example, the Mastenbroek design model was of a 14 ton trenching machine with no less than 14,000 parts, showing how effective Inventor can be when handling large assemblies".
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The conference proved an excellent opportunity for users to learn new ways to fully use the potential of Inventor, and for Autodesk to gain valuable feedback from customers.
Paul Mawhinney of Parker Hannifin said he was delighted to be named as the UK design contest winner, explaining how Inventor had helped the company develop more sophisticated forms, differentiating its pneumatic products from the competition.
"It was only when Parker Hannifin purchased Inventor that it was possible to experiment.
Our new product, the Moduflex air preparation system, had to exceed performance while meeting user needs on technical, ergonomic and aesthetic levels.
The result was a product range that helped develop Parker's corporate identity and has been very favourably reviewed in the design engineering press".
Mark Taylor of runner-up Mastenbroek told a similar story: "It's great that our achievements have been acknowledged.
We're not ones to just open the box - we've really learnt to push Inventor in different directions.
And because it's such a robust and reliable software package we've been able to reap the rewards".
According to Dunsmuir: "A growing confidence in Inventor's powerful and diverse potential" was very much in evidence at the conference and among the 250 entries to the design contest.
Many of the entries, "took the use of Inventor to new levels", he said.
The contest, cosponsored by HP, represented an excellent opportunity for all Autodesk Inventor users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to showcase products designed using the software.
Entries covered all aspects of mechanical design from small parts to large assemblies and from machinery design to consumer products.
Top EMEA honours went to DEP of Italy.
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