Design Your Airbuses with Inventor

In an email titled "Autodesk Airbus Email", Autodesk is suggesting that the A380 would have been built ontime using its Inventor and Electrical software. In an email blast sent by Tenlinks.com on behalf of Autodesk marketing, a photograph of a cockpit illustrates the tag line:

Don't let your project get delayed because electrical and mechanical teams can't communicate.

Autodesk's MSD salesteam must be dreaming about replacing 2,500 seats of CATIA at Airbus Industries. Would Autodesk's PLM software also be up to the task?

Comments

[Patrick]

Funny, there are still people to think installing a new software will solve problems. But wait, did they say it would solve *their* problems or Airbus problems?

[Evan Yares]

Another play on the "solve your interoperability problems by buying all your software from us."

Of course, the company that's most famous for this approach is... Dassault. Too bad it doesn't work that way.

The funny thing is, both V4 and V5 have state-of-the art STEP AP203 translators. So... exactly what happened to that great STEP promise?

Oh.. and Dassault does have a quasi-feature-based V4->V5 converter product, too.

[Saidinjest Pleasedonttakeoffence.]

A370? So it was not the software's fault, the computers or the design staffs fault the "Airbus" project is having delivery difficulties. Ralph has 'exposed' it's simply the guys have been working on the wrong project. Now they won't need to use Autodesk's Inventor they just need a text editor to rename the drawings to A380 and the production guys will catch-up using all the previously discarded - didn't know what they were for drawings - I am sure. :-)

It is obvious that Dassault's V4-V5 interoperability doesn't work. Yet it appears that several CAD translation companies seems to have CATIA V4-V5 translators, but they also, by turn, seem to be a secret. (If you go to all the major translation company web sites, theorem, Elysium and the like, you will see that CATIA V4 and V5 are listed but no prodocts are specific to it. And most of these companies have proudly announced CAA membership and so on. ) Were these translators in at Airbus? If not, why not? If Dassaults own translation does not work, why not use license the translation tools that do work??? Anything would be better than this fiasco.