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Autodesk Inventor Fusion For Mac Free Download

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You’ve likely been gnawing the multi-touch off your Magic Mouse in anticipation of it, but no longer. Autodesk Inventor Fusion is now available for the Mac. You can download it from Autodesk Labs immediately and you don’t even need Autodesk Inventor installed to run it. If you’ve used Autodesk Inventor Fusion on Windows, you’ll notice some differences. And, if you’ve used the Autodesk 123D App, you’ll notice some similarities.

Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac

Now, I’m not a Mac fiend by any means, so I won’t be installing this right away. Loren Welch has the best Inventor Fusion write-up I’ve seen with plenty of screen shots and a video to satiate your curiosity.

Our website provides a free download of Autodesk Inventor Fusion 1.2 for Mac. The program is also known as 'Inventor Fusion'. The unique ID for this application's bundle is com.autodesk.mas.fusion. The application lies within Design & Photo Tools, more precisely 3D Modeling. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is Autodesk Inc. How to Download and Install Autodesk Fusion 360 for FREE (legally) // In this quick tip, learn how to download and install Autodesk Fusion 360 for FREE if yo.

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Solids, Surfaces, Visualization, Parts and Assemblies…and, do you see the 360 integration? In case you missed it ‘Insert from Autodesk 360’ was on the Assemble menu. This is good stuff here folks…good stuff indeed. And here is some more Autodesk 360 you will see in IFM.

IFM is Inventor Fusion for Mac. Yes, unlike the Windows version of Inventor Fusion 2013, IFM hooks you into the new Autodesk 360 backbone. Very nice. However, you don’t have as many file import options. In fact, you’re pretty much at the bare minimum of import options with Inventor, AutoCAD, SAT and STEP. As you look at Inventor Fusion for Mac, you’ll notice it actually looks more like the 123D App interface than the Inventor Fusion (Windows) interface. Now, that’s not a bad thing, as the 123D interface is slick, easy to navigate and has tons of nice features for a free app. It does lacks the features you find in the original Inventor Fusion for Windows (and tends to lag on larger files), but even still, 123D is a delight to use.

Here’s an image of IFM, ganked from Loren’s post:

Also ganked, a video of IFM:

It’s great. When Autodesk users ask to have software available on the Mac, they’re listened to. But if you’re a PTC Pro/E user, Siemens Solid Edge user or a Dassault SolidWorks or CATIA user… forget about it, right? Oh wait, even Autodesk hasn’t put that same fervor for pleasing it’s users into the Inventor or Revit products… yet.

You can give Inventor Fusion on the Mac a try via Autodesk Labs and I suggest you do whether you’re on a PC or a Mac. You can keep up to speed with what’s happening with Inventor Fusion as well on the Facebook Inventor Fusion page.

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The long awaited moment has arrived – Autodesk Inventor Fusion – is now available for download on the Autodesk Labs web (the original www.inventorfusion.com address is now redirected).

This technology preview version of Inventor Fusion is free and it is time-bombed to January 2010. It seems that it is not available for everyone – the download is limited to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States (yes, Italy is there this time).

I am delighted that my blog posting Inventor Fusion – almost nuclear is listed as press coverage on the Fusion homepage. But back to the software.

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The download is surprisingly small (178MB!, compare it to the 7GB of Inventor setup) and the installer runs smoothly. I have installed it on my Inventor machine but I think that Fusion does not require Inventor to be installed. In any case, Fusion is not an addon for Inventor, it is a separate piece of software which does not alter your existing Inventor installation (if any). I have tried the direct manipulation tools on some models and it seems to work right. The application interface is quite different, a little bit cryptic at the first glance, and you must change some of your habits to use it properly (e.g. mouse right press instead of click) but I agree that it allows to move forward very quickly. The transparent browser tree makes more space for your design on screen.

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Full integration (“fusion”) of the parametric and direct modeling is still not there in this first version but the development is clearly going this way. A truly bi-directional fusion of these two methods will help a lot. I will be curious to test the combination of these methods on some larger and more complicated models. With the feature-free (history-free) editing methods working on any dumb solid, it also makes more sense now why Autodesk added all the import file formats to Inventor.

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Inventor Fusion (developed for two years under the codename Freeway) is a very promising 3D CAD software which has good chances to change the way we use Inventor today. And I really hope Inventor Fusion functionality will eventually fuse into standard Inventor.