Hello Autodesk Forum,
We are the Charging Champions, FTC team #8660.
We downloaded the Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015 STUDENT VERSION software, but it also came with 5 more programs (Autodesk 360, Autodesk Design Review, Autodesk Recap, Autodesk Vault Basic, and DWG TrueView). We wanted to know the funtion of each of these programs.
We are new to Autodesk, so expect a lot of questions coming up soon! 🙂
Thank you,
The Charging Champions
FTC Team #8660
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Autodesk 360 (also known as A360) is basically an Autodesk hosted colaboration "drop-box" where you can store files and different team members can gain access from anywhere in the world.
I recommend that you investigate and practice using the A360 website for your project.
Design Review is a viewing app that does not require Inventor for others to see what you are working on. You can save your work in a web format (*.dwfx) that anyone with Design Review or a Windows OS can see the work - here is an example *.dwfx
(in that link I actually used another app, Autodesk Screencast to demonstrate how to use the dwfx) You might want to look into Autodesk Screencast (I highly recommend it).
Recap - I have never used this app, I have basic understanding of what it does, but I will allow someone with actual experience using it to come along and comment.
Vault Basic - similar to A360 above - but local. For your project, I recommend ignoring this one for now and use A360 instead.
DWG TrueView - a viewer for *.dwg format files. One of the big uses of this app, other than for viewing dwg files, is to convert later files to earlier versions for users with ancient releases of AutoCAD. I don't expect that you will have any need for this App.