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• AutoCAD LT
AutoCAD LT software is purpose built for professional drafting and detailing. AutoCAD LT includes document sharing
capability without the need for software customization or certain advanced functionality found in our AutoCAD product. Users
can share all design data with team members who use our AutoCAD product or other Autodesk products built on AutoCAD.
AutoCAD LT software is our second largest revenue-generating product.
MFG
Our MFG segment provides manufacturers in automotive and transportation, industrial machinery, consumer products
and building products with comprehensive digital prototyping solutions that bring together product data from all phases of the
product development through production process to develop a single digital model created in Autodesk Inventor software. Our
solutions for digital prototyping are scalable, attainable, cost-effective, and allow for real-world simulation, enabling a broad
group of manufacturers to realize benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows. MFG’s principal product offerings
included the following during fiscal 2015:
• Autodesk Product Design Suites
Autodesk Product Design Suites ("PDS") is a comprehensive solution for digital prototyping, delivering 3D design,
visualization and simulation tools to complete the entire engineering process. The digital prototyping capabilities of PDS can
help customers design better products, reduce development costs and get to market faster. Two editions of PDS are available to
meet each customer's particular business needs and offer the depth and breadth of the Autodesk portfolio.
• Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Inventor allows manufacturers to go beyond 3D design to digital prototyping by giving engineers a
comprehensive and flexible set of tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, analysis, tooling, visualization, and
documentation. With Autodesk Inventor, engineers can integrate AutoCAD drawings and model-based design data into a single
digital model, creating a virtual representation of a final product that enables them to validate the form, fit, and function of the
product before it is ever built.
• AutoCAD Mechanical
AutoCAD Mechanical software is purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. AutoCAD Mechanical
software offers users significant productivity gains and helps save hours of design time by including all the functionality of
AutoCAD software, in addition to comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts and tools for automating common design
tasks.
• Autodesk Moldflow
The Autodesk Moldflow family of injection molding simulation software provides tools that help manufacturers optimize
the design of plastic parts and injection molds, and study the injection molding process.
M&E
Our M&E segment consists of two product groups: Animation and Creative Finishing. Animation products are sold as
software only and provide tools for digital sculpting, modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing for design
visualization, visual effects and games production. Creative Finishing products are primarily sold as turnkey solutions for
editing, finishing and visual effects design and color grading. Principal product offerings in our M&E segment’s Animation and
Creative Finishing product groups included the following during fiscal 2015:
Animation
• Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max software provides 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solutions that enable game developers,
design visualization professionals and visual effects artists to digitally create realistic images, animations, and complex scenes
and to digitally communicate abstract or complex mechanical, architectural, engineering, and construction concepts.
2015 Annual Report