-New Product Suite Allows Users to Cost-effectively Make First Steps to 3D while Retaining Existing 2D Functionality-

 

FARNBOROUGH, UK: 2 March 2010 - Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, has announced the availability of the AutoCAD® Inventor LT™ Suite in the UK. AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite helps manufacturers compete more effectively by adding the benefits of 3D design to their development process by combining AutoCAD LT® and Autodesk® Inventor LT™ software in one affordable package. 

 

The solution is available to end users at a recommended reseller price of £1,400.

 

AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite lets you choose the right tool for the job. Seamless DWG™ interoperability between AutoCAD LT and Inventor LT software allows you to leverage your 2D expertise and data to begin designing parts in 3D. Modelling your parts in 3D with Inventor LT enables you to create and update production-ready drawings faster than with manual 2D methods. Even manufacturers who are not themselves designing in 3D need to communicate in 3D with customers, partners, and suppliers. Inventor LT gives you the ability to import and export 3D part models in common file formats without relying on expensive file translation software, helping to improve communication with your extended supply chain. And it also enables you to work with most 3D CAD data formats. 

 

“Autodesk believes that users need both 2D and 3D tools, and the popularity of the Autodesk® Inventor® family of products is a testament to the fact that many across the manufacturing space agree,” says Jaime Herrero-Velarde, EMEA retail industry manager, Autodesk. “With AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite, customers can design and collaborate in 3D at the part level with Inventor LT, and also use AutoCAD LT when the job calls for 2D design.”

 

“In the current economic climate, manufacturers are battling intense competition and are looking to boost productivity. But budgets are often tighter than ever before. The AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite offers a very cost-effective way to get the 2D productivity benefits of the latest version of AutoCAD LT and provides them with the opportunity to take their first steps towards 3D mechanical design at a pace that suits them,” he adds. “Introducing 3D with Inventor LT can help you compete more effectively today, while putting your organisation on a scalable path to the full power of Digital Prototyping tomorrow.”

 

For more information about the AutoCAD Inventor LT suite, please visit: http://www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorltsuite

Videoconferencing and Telepresence Vendor Leads Discussion on Enabling All Employees to Benefit from Telepresence at UC EXPO, 10th- 11th March, Olympia London 

LONDON, 2nd March 2010 – TANDBERG today announced its attendance at UC EXPO 10 at Olympia in London on the 10th – 11th March. Nick Sheppard, Director, Unified Communications, TANDBERG, leads two speaking slots to explain how organisations can enable all employees to experience the productivity of Telepresence.

The sessions, entitled ‘Telepresence Productivity for Everyone’, will take place at 14.30 on Wednesday, March 10th in the Teleworking & Mobility Theatre and 14.30 on Thursday, March 11th in the Collaboration & Messaging Theatre. 

In each 30 minute conference, Nick will share his vision of unified communications and show how business-quality video enables organisations to increase staff productivity whilst simultaneously improving employee work-life balance.

“At TANDBERG we believe in the power of visual collaboration as part of unified communications. We have been building on the promise of unified communications and extending it with our ‘Video First’ approach to aid the connection of people to people, people to ideas and ideas to business outcomes,” commented Sheppard. “That’s why it is important that unified communications is not just an IT issue, but a business one.”

TANDBERG will also be demonstrating its Unified Communications Gateway technology at UC EXPO. The company is the first in the industry to allow Microsoft Office Communicator (OCS) users to experience high definition video quality when connecting to standards based systems – maximising the return on businesses investment in OCS and video communications. Furthermore, TANDBERG will showcase everything from its Total Telepresence range to desktop solutions, and mobile working solutions, at stand 507. 

If you would like to meet with a TANDBERG representative at the show or receive information on the range of services on offer please contact <a href="mailto:uk@tandberg.com">uk@tandberg.com