Autodesk has ceased development of Autodesk
Mechanical Desktop and will no longer release new versions of the product,
and Mechanical Desktop 2009 is the last version of the product to be made
available.
This decision was made to allow Autodesk to focus on the development
of the Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical product lines. Autodesk
recognizes that its customers have created many Mechanical Desktop files
containing valuable intellectual property. To protect this data, Autodesk
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
- make Mechanical Desktop 2009 available for download with future
releases of Inventor. Customers who upgrade to the latest version of
Inventor will benefit from a modern, highly capable 3D design tool for
Digital Prototying with the ease of use characteristics pioneered by
Mechanical Desktop
- support the DWG Import wizard for Mechanical Desktop part,
assembly and drawing files
In addition, Autodesk has developed a new tool kit to simplify the
migration of MDT drawing files to Inventor and is making this available to
subscription customers through Autodesk Consulting.
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