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Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2

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This post is a summary of the ten part Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 series. Given below are links to each part along with a brief description.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 1: Me bitching about Technology Preview 1 and the weird PR strategy used to promote it. Frankly, I am surprised that Autodesk chose to show me TP 2 after what I wrote about TP1.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 2: Some screenshots of the demo given to me by Kevin Scheider showing something that everyone (including me) thought was impossible.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 3: Explaining the Change Manager. It may be important to note that at this point I still didn’t have access to the software. Its odd how much you can write about a technology just by attending a web meeting and asking a few questions.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 4: Bits of my conversation with Kevin Schneider during the web meeting.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 5: Here is where I finally got to try the software. In this part I explain the extremely messy packaging of the technology – two separate applications using two different file formats.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 6: Investigating whether Inventor Fusion secretly tracks direct modeling operations. It does not. However it does track the features created in Fusion and uses that information to help the Change Manager.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 7: Explaining what happens when the Change Manager fails.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 8: Showing how the Change Manager fails to analyze a simple model.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 9: Showing how the Change Manager succeeds in analyzing the simple model in the previous part, but only after doing things sequentially. Here I explain why I think the Fusion technology is a success but the way it is packaged is a total disaster.

Inventor Fusion Technology Preview 2 – Part 10: Comparing Fusion with SolidWorks Instant3D. Or rather the inability to compare them.

WordPress tells me that the ten posts in this series contain 7576 words in all. I think I need to remind myself that nobody is paying me to write any of this and that there are probably much better things that I could do with my time. Maybe stuff like writing software.