mechanical desktop and inventor?

are mechanical desktop and autodesk inventor separate packages or just
one got renamed while upgrading?
what is the story behind renaming or lanching two separate solid
modeing packages(as whatever the case may be)?

regards,
Yogesh Joshi

PS : I posted the same message a few days back on the related inventor
group but have no reply till now.

 

Inventor is very very different to Mechanical Desktop. Both have their
advantages and disadvantages.

Juergen

 

Mechanical Desktop was an enhancement / evolution of AutoCAD
capabilities. Inventor is a brand new package unrelated to anything
else AutoDesk has offered. Inventor is intended to compete with
packages like SolidWorks and Solid Edge, which both make Mechanical
Desktop seem like an expensive toy. Its user interface (UI) is a pretty
fair knock-off of other products.

Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
http://www.h2omarkdesign.com

 

I searched for mechanical desktop on www.autodesk.com,they have not
put that name in their product list.Have autodesk stopped selling
mechanical desktop or is it known by some other name.?
Below is the list of products from autodesk.

Products Alphabetically

AutoCAD - NEW RELEASE
AutoCAD Electrical - NEW RELEASE
AutoCAD Express Tools
AutoCAD LT - NEW RELEASE
AutoCAD OEM
AutoCAD Mechanical - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Architectural Desktop - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Architectural Studio
Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Building Systems - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Buzzsaw
Autodesk Civil 3D
Autodesk Civil Design - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Civil Series
Autodesk DWF Composer - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk DWF Viewer
Autodesk Envision
Autodesk Field Survey
Autodesk GenMap
Autodesk GIS Design Server
Autodesk Inventor - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Land Desktop - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Location Services Products
Autodesk Map 3D - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Map Series
Autodesk MapGuide - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk OnSite Desktop
Autodesk OnSite Enterprise - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk OnSite View
Autodesk Pre-Plan
Autodesk Pre-Plan Command
Autodesk QuickCAD
Autodesk Raster Design - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Revit - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Streamline
Autodesk Survey - NEW RELEASE
Autodesk Symbols
Autodesk Utility Design
Autodesk VIZ - NEW RELEASE
AutoSketch
CAiCE Visual Transportation Products
Discreet Products
Education Products/ACES Subscription
Lightscape
Volo View
3ds max

 

In the next future (what is next future- one year or ten years, nobody
doesn't know it) Mechanical Desktop will be substituted by Inventor.
Currently MDT is in the package of Inventor.
If you need more informations about MDT klick at the "Search" button and
search for "Mechanical Desktop".

Juergen

 

If you need more informations about MDT klick at the "Search" button and

The confusion was never about " What is MDT?" but about "are MDT and
Inventor same or not?" and it hardly requires any great deductive mind
to deduce that I would have searched for the same question first and
then only I turned to post this question in the newsgroup.
Now you search for "Mechanical Desktop" and you will be surprised to
see *this thread* at the top which certainly means that there is not
enough material available related to MDT .Forget about the searching
for difference between Inventor and MDT.

 

I wrote in an earlier posting: it's not the same.

Oh, a misunderstandig I guess. Because MDT is not listed in the product list
at Autodesks web (I guess Autodesk wants to force the users attention to
Inventor) I told you that you can find informations about MDT at other
places at Autodesks web site (not here in the ng). It was only a hint - not
less and not more.

Yes, forget it. MDT and Inventor are two absolutely unrelated and different
products and the list of differences would be endless.

Juergen

 

Today I got to see both the packages MDT and Inventor.Instantly I
realized the confusion Autodesk is in , Since I am working on a
project which requires studies of almost all of the available MCAD
software , and studied proe, sw before.
The MDT introduces the parametric concept and surely autodesk had to
develop this package so as to compete with the then sprading
Parametric design market revolutionized by PTC.
So is the case with the Inventor.The motivation behind this software
is clearly SW from Dassault which is rich in its user interface and
one can learn it quickly as almost everything in SW becomes trivial
and so easy.(extrusion,sweep and loft operation to name a few).
The study of autocad,MDT and Inventor in the same order will give
oneself the insight into the history of development of CAD and the
logical explaination of why the other software came into being.(eg.
autocad : - 2D drafting,No parametric no constraint based with little
bit of 3d operations,
MDT : -3D drafting but not solid modeling.
Inventor : a solid modeler.)

regards,
Yogesh Joshi.

 

Huhhh? Do you know the software which you are talking about?

Juergen