I work for a K-12 public school in Michigan. We have 90 CAD workstations in our district and this is about the 10th year I've had to deploy the Autodesk suite to our labs. EVERY year Autodesk changes something, and just makes it more incredibly stupid and/or infuriating to deploy this. Last year I ended up just going and installing it BY HAND on every one of them becuase I was fed up with custom support being no help and just sending me the exact same KB article over and over that had incorrect instructions. So, reaching out to the braintrust here... has anyone been able to get a working deployment for Autodesk this year? I've tried about 30 different combinations in this freaking "batch file template" and I cannot get this stupid thing to run silently and license the product.
Beyond Inventor
In addition to the new features and enhancements in the core Inventor 2011 software, the new release sees numerous changes to various modules included in the more advanced suites. Nowhere is this more apparent than in tooling and model design. Autodesk states that key workflow areas have been optimized to improve performance by more than 50%.
The AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2011 starts at $6,390 with a subscription or $5,295 without. Customers can also purchase other suites, such as Routed Systems, Tooling, or Simulation, at $6,995. The Inventor Professional Suite, which includes mold design, tube and pipe, cable and harness, dynamic simulation and FEA, is $9,290 with a subscription or $7,995 without. An upgrade from Autodesk Inventor Suite 2010 to 2011 is $2,645, and a standalone copy of Autodesk Inventor 2011 is $4,495.
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