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Getting Started Guide
The Autodesk Inventor 2010 Getting Started guides introduce you to Autodesk Inventor and provide hands-on experience, using sample data included on the product media.

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Getting Started (pdf - 4732Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Routed Systems Getting Started Guide (pdf - 13027Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Simulation getting Started Guide (pdf - 1501Kb)

Online Help
The Autodesk Inventor Help is your comprehensive guide to learning and using all aspects of the Autodesk Inventor software. It is a complete online guide to every aspect of the software that includes general information about all features of Autodesk Inventor, procedural information on how to perform various tasks, and an extensive reference section.

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Help (chm - 58257Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 New Interface Video* (chm - 12372Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Command Locator (chm - 105311Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Viewr* (chm - 193Kb)

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Task Scheduler Help* (chm - 348Kb)

Autodesk Inventor 2010 Routed System

    Cable and Harness* (chm - 1020Kb)

    Tube and Pipe Help* (chm - 3263Kb)

    IDF Translator Help* (chm - 44Kb)

Autodesk Inventor 2010 Simulation

    Dynamic Simulation Help* (chm - 1736Kb)

    Stress Analysis Help* (chm - 1887Kb)

Engineer’s Handbook
The Engineer's Handbook is a survey of all the knowledge and calculation formulas for Generators and Calculators included in Design Accelerator.

    Engineer’s Handbook 2010 (chm - 1933Kb)

Fundamentals for the Autodesk Inventor CAD Manager
This guide is designed to help the Inventor CAD Manager understand the basic tasks for creating a productive environment within a shared workgroup environment.

    CAD Manager 2010 Help (chm - 594Kb)

Show Me Animations
Show Me animations demonstrate how to complete a task or how to understand a concept.

    Autodesk Inventor 2010 Show Mes (chm - 161480Kb)

Autodesk Inventor 2010 Routed Systems

    Cable and Harness Show Mes* (chm - 11430Kb)

    Tube and Pipe Help Show Mes* (chm - 7568Kb)

Autodesk Inventor 2010 Simulation

    Dynamic Show Mes* (chm - 48252Kb)

AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 SDK
This SDK contains libraries, header files, documentation and samples for AutoCAD Mechanical APIs, which provide object-oriented C++ programming interfaces for developers to use, customize and extend AutoCAD Mechanical software. Please refer to the readme for changes to this release of SDK.

    AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 (zip - 82165Kb)

    Readme (htm - 9Kb)

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