Product documentation is a critical part of your product, ranging from assembly instructions to user manuals, operating procedures, and repair instructions. Too often, documentation is 2D, text-heavy, and confusing. Because technical communication teams are disconnected from engineering, the documentation process often does not start until very late, creating a bottleneck in your product launch process and slowing your time to market.
Autodesk® has created a new product for creating compelling assembly and technical product documentation that can be viewed online, on paper, or on a factory floor monitor. Autodesk Inventor® Publisher, available as part of the 2011 release, is designed specifically for technical communication professionals. This software makes it easy for non-CAD users to work directly with 3D design models to create clear, accurate, and compelling product documentation, helping you get to market faster.
Inventor Publisher gives users have the ability to directly import 3D CAD data in a variety of common formats, providing technical communication teams access to accurate engineering data in a way they can easily leverage. Next, Inventor Publisher provides a set of easy tools which allow the creation of the exact view, appearance, and animation sequences they need for assembly or disassembly instructions. After authoring views and instructions, Inventor Publisher lets users publish to a wide range of interactive, animated, or static formats.
Inventor Publisher lets users extend the benefits of Digital Prototyping beyond design and engineering to technical communication teams by providing a tool that works directly with 3D design models, without the need to learn CAD software. The technical illustrations in Inventor Publisher update automatically when the Autodesk Inventor 3D design model changes, allowing everyone on the technical communication team to develop documentation concurrently with the design. This allows users to confidently start their documentation process earlier, reducing their time to market.
Inventor Publisher allows users to deliver clearer and more comprehensive technical instructions to their customers by moving from creating 2D, text heavy documentation to creating 3D, interactive documentation. This helps deliver more impactful documentation that can give customers a superior experience with your products, increasing their satisfaction and loyalty.
- Support for most common 3D formats, including Autodesk Inventor, DWG™, STEP, IGES, SAT, ProENGINEER, CATIA, and DWF™
- Support for applications such as Adobe® Acrobat®, Adobe Flash®, Autodesk Design Review, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft Word, and a variety of common image formats such as JPG and TIFF
- Extensive publishing tools, options, and flexible templates provide the ability to tailor the results to a specific purpose
- Allows publishing for use with a wide range of applications, viewers, and media players, making the documentation accessible by anyone