Autodesk Inventor accelerates Antarctic research
Autodesk Inventor is helping the British Antarctic Survey team get products that right first time and into the field faster. Andy Tait is a mechanical design engineer at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), within technical services in the Antarctic and Marine Engineering Group, and is something of a fan of Autodesk Inventor - a dynamic 3D package enabling highly accurate and easy-to-visualise digital prototyping. In fact, it was only thanks to Inventor that Tait's team managed to turn around a very last-minute project to design a probe-based ground radar system, to be mounted on the front of a snowcat. Its purpose is to look for cracks on the snow surface and prevent the snowcat from plunging into a crevice. "This was an important project, but it came to us very late in the day," Tait explains. "Yet we were able to get it right first time thanks to Inventor, and deliver the device with incredible speed."
