Computer-aided design (CAD) specialist Autodesk late last week reversed a long-standing policy and released free viewing software for its proprietary DWG file format, which has long been the ...

In a nutshell: Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer, a free iPad app, lets users view animated, three-dimensional versions of instruction manuals. Autodesk created a free instruction manual ...

Inventor Publisher Viewer is free in the Android Market, and you can grab it by hitting the widget below.

A free offer to use products like AutoCAD, 3ds Max, and Maya should excite art and design schools, and that's just what Autodesk wants.