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.
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Posted by Simon Bosley
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<coviepresb1647> wrote in messageI
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have used MDT and Inventor though not for a very long time. However, in using
both, I believe that MDT is not superior to Inventor. I have also talked with
my colleagues who have used both for a significantly longer time than I have,
and they also believe that Inventor is superior to MDT. To create a simple
model and drawing in Inventor is far more user friendly and easier in Inventor
than MDT.
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<coviepresb1647> wrote in messageYour
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insulting, offensive reply deserves no comment other than this. "Which would
be 2nd or 3rd semester students?" My colleagues are mechanical designers that
have worked 20+ years for a defense organization and not college students.
"Equivalent to a CAD drivers license learner permit" No, a novice is a
learners permit. An expert is a professional motor racer. I am neither a
novice nor an expert. "Have you searched?" Yes, I have searched. "Wet behind
the ears newbies should restrict themselves to such activity until they're
knowledgable enough to participate. (see attachment: ng_discussion.zip)"
Wrong. First, I am not a novice. Second, novice can participate although they
may and should share other's more experienced input that they have learned or
heard. "How does anyone other than a zealot or shill get off telling someone
else what's best for them?" LOL. I am not the one that's doing the getting off
here. "How does anyone other than a complete idiot get off saying one program
or another is "superior" without putting it in some real world working
environment context and defining that environment?" How does anyone other than
a complete idiot come to an false conclusion to another's post and then from
his/her own mistaken understanding, proceed to issue insulting, unsubtantiated
virtriol against that other person? Have you asked sincere questions before
issuing your vitriol? As I have ALREADY admitted, I don't have much experience
with Inventor or MDT. Hence, I am sharing my more experienced colleagues'
real-world work. "Do you earn a living using the software?" Yes. "Doing what?"
A Mechanical Engineer "For whom?" A Defense organization "Where may examples
of your work be found?" Due to the sensitive nature, they can be found on our
organziation's Vault and other servers. "Examples of anything you've done?" I
refer you to the immediately preceding reply. "If you think IV is better
demonstrate it. " There already has been demonstrated by more experienced
users. If you think MDT is superior to IV, then you, Alex, and Aug demonstrate
it. "Otherwise you're just another wrinkled, smelly opinion. Another beer can
laying beside the disinformation highway." In light of your insulting reply,
do you always welcome person, whom you've concluded (in this case,
erroneously) "wet behind the ears newbies", in this offensive manner? Unless
you abandon your virtriolic, ad hominem, prejudicial reply; then I have
nothing more to say to you and will disregard further comments from you except
an apology from you. Your reply convinced me that you are a human bent on
destructive criticism and insulting people. Good Day.