A few weeks ago I posted a blog all about the Eco Materials Advisor within Autodesk Inventor 2012. Based on some work I've been doing recently with the EMA tool I have put the following video together which shows how the Eco Materials Advisor works and the data and results that are reported back.
You'll notice that I begin the video using the new Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012 Launchpad tool which gives me workflow specific tasks from within a launchpad environment accessed from one icon on your desktop. If you want to read more about the launchpad and download it for free, read this post.
The Eco Materials Advisor within Inventor 2012 is a great tool for trying out different materials and manufacturing processes to see how these impact areas like CO2 footprint, End of Life, Cost, Energy Consumption etc. Its so quick to see how a changing the material of selected components can increase or decrease the Eco Impact and you can generate reports that can be used along with the design documents.
I'll be posting a part 2 video which follows on from this first one but shows how we can make all of the Eco Materials Advisor result data accessible and usable to non-engineers using Autodesk Vault Professional.
