This is a copy of the annoucement sent to subscriptions customers earlier today:
Autodesk has terminated development of Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® and will no longer release new versions of the product. This decision was made to allow Autodesk to focus on the development of the Autodesk® Inventor® and AutoCAD® Mechanical product lines.
As a result of this decision, Mechanical Desktop 2009 becomes the last version of the product to be made available.
Autodesk recognizes that our customers have created many Mechanical Desktop files containing their intellectual property. To protect this data, Autodesk is taking the following actions:
- In accordance with section 2.2.3 of the Subscription Terms and Conditions, Autodesk Support will continue to provide product support for Subscription customers for a period of no less than three years after the removal of Mechanical Desktop from the Inventor product line.
- Autodesk will continue to make Mechanical Desktop 2009 available for download with future releases of Inventor.
- Autodesk will continue to support the DWG Import wizard for Mechanical Desktop parts, assemblies and drawings.
- Despite anything to the contrary in our Subscription terms and conditions or our license agreement(s), Autodesk will allow customers the right to continue using earlier versions of Mechanical Desktop with Inventor releases.
For additional information, please contact your reseller.
Thank you for choosing Subscription for your Autodesk products.
Sincerely,
The Autodesk Subscription Team
Posted by Simon Bosley
Product Manager
Autodesk
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"anagnoa" wrote in messageAug,
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I certainly understand your feelings on this matter and I want you to know
that Autodesk did not make this decision lightly. We worked hard to support
MDT well past the 4 releases we said we would when Inventor was first released
in 1999; that's over 5 years beyond that commitment, and we did it for
dedicated customers like you. I certainly don't want you to pursue other
options, but we are grateful for your business over these past years and we
hope you'll consider continuing to work with Autodesk. Feel free to let us
know what we might be able to do to ease any transition for you. Regards,
Andrew Anagnost Vice President, CAD/CAE Products Manufacturing Solutions
Division Autodesk, Inc.
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"anagnoa" wrote in messageUnfortunately,
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the AutoCAD and MDT code bases are too intertwined.
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<Adam,
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in message
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Just want to add my 2¢. We moved to MDT in 1999 for the ability to do 3-d
parametric from Excel spreadsheets. Since then we've discovered Automatic
dimensioning, Qselect, and several other functions that have really boosted
our productivity. We generate 50,000+ drawings/year for our suppliers, mostly
2D, in response to customer orders with very short lead times. I can't imagine
losing MDT and being able to keep up. Just the Auto Dim function loss would be
huge. Thanks, Sara L. Richey Fulfillment Specialist Andersen
Windows
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How much time have you really spent using Inventor?
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Dennis Jeffrey, Autodesk Inventor Certified
Expert
Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified
Expert.
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr.
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