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Granta Design has released details of its Eco Materials Adviser Full Version, which will build upon the sustainable design tool currently available, at no extra cost, within Autodesk Inventor 2012 software. Autodesk Inventor Eco Materials Adviser helps designers to estimate a product’s environmental impact and to make more sustainable design decisions.

Granta Design has released a new version of the CES Selector software, which helps engineering enterprises make important decisions about materials and process choices during product design. New features make it easier for materials producers to analyse options during development and to market their products. CES Selector combines comprehensive data on the properties of materials with powerful graphical software for analysis and selection developed at Cambridge University and Granta.

Major challenges await designers. In particular, there is a need to enable analysis of environmental factors early on in design, where changes cost least and have the greatest impact, and to couple analysis to tools that guide the design changes. In other words, organisations need practical ways to embed eco design into the normal engineering workflow