REMINDER: Autodesk Mechanical Desktop Discontinued!

This is a REMINDER!  Autodesk ceased development of Autodesk Mechanical Desktop and is no longer releasing new versions of the product.  Autodesk discontinued development of Mechanical Desktop because the technology in this product was outdated and in order to support the needs of the larger and growing community of Inventor users, Autodesk decided to transfer MDT development resources to support the Inventor product family.

Mechanical Desktop (MDT) 2009 was the last version of the software to be made available.  With the new releases of Autodesk software, Autodesk has updated (or patched) MDT 2009 to allow it to work with other Autodesk software.  This will not continue forever, so you need to plan accordingly.

If you still rely on MDT for data, you need to create a plan to migrate your data to Inventor.  Adraft has been spreading this message for the last few years, but some people still have not made the transition. If you are a previously licensed user of Mechanical Desktop software and have uninstalled Mechanical Desktop 2009 or are installing Inventor on a new computer then you will need to download new installation files that are compatible with Inventor.

Here is a link to get MDT that has been patched to work with the newest release:

Autodesk Mechnical Desktop Site