For more than 20 years, HP and Autodesk have worked hard together to provide Autodesk customers with the workstation and printer solutions they need to make their solutions fly. HP’s dedication to this partnership has earned it the position of Autodesk’s top hardware partner, and HP continues to strive each day to earn that position.

How did HP achieve and maintain this long standing position, and how does it benefit you? HP built a record of commitment to providing solutions specifically for Autodesk applications. It assigns dedicated personnel to test, optimize and support them, and to work with Autodesk to ensure absolute reliability and performance. HP also shares product road maps so that new Autodesk application functionality will be supported in HP workstations.

To support its partnership with Autodesk and provide a clear and specialized level of quality HP engineers work with Autodesk to test Autodesk applications on all HP workstations. Through this effort, HP provides the industry’s most extensive testing and certification process, performing thousands of software tests on each of its AMD, Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon-based workstations. This ensures that you get the highest reliability and performance with Autodesk applications. And while no amount of testing can anticipate all potential issues, HP goes further to find and fix vulnerabilities than anyone else.

HP Engineers who work with Autodesk also develop and maintain special, free utilities. They can be found at www.hp.com/go/autodesk. The HP Performance Tuning Framework is the cornerstone of these offerings, providing a downloadable utility that quickly and easily tunes your HP workstation. It creates a custom configuration with the best certified graphics drivers for your unique Autodesk application. It also removes some memory constraints, simplifies upgrades and serves as a platform for additional utilities and capabilities.

One Framework utility of particular note is the configuration manager. It allows you to quickly gather up all the detailed system configuration information you need to help you maintain and troubleshoot your workstation on one screen, with the touch of a button and allows you to send that information to technical support representatives at both HP and Autodesk so that they can better understand your particular configuration. This utility alone can save you as much as 30-60 minutes the next time you need tech support.

HP’s relationship applies to the full spectrum of HP products, which is why HP large format printers work better and faster for Autodesk. The new HP Designjet T610/T1100 Printer series presents the latest HP Optimized system driver which provides performance optimization that results in a better user experience and substantial benefits to the AutoCAD user. A single familiar Windows interface in AutoCAD ensures a better user experience, free of disruptions from different software applications. Because it is a standard Windows interface, it is easier to access by a single click from inside the application, and because it is such a familiar and simple format, the user can readily access all the printer settings and commands needed without unnecessary mouse-clicks. The HP driver also provides a common interface when printing to another application or printer, again simplifying the printing process without having to navigate different and proprietary controls.

In recognition of HP’s commitment to excellence, Autodesk uses HP workstations to develop its software and test its applications. Autodesk’s keystone products, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Architectural Studio, Revit and others, are built from the ground up on HP workstations, a clear demonstration of Autodesk’s confidence in HP.

With HP, highly developed and reliable technology is only part of the benefit. You gain the depth of knowledge and experience that only a long-term commitment to partnership can provide. You gain the trust that you are choosing the company Autodesk chooses to help ensure its success. You gain a partner in excellence.

SUPPORT & TRAINING

Online at www.hp.com/go/support or www.hp.com/go/autodesk.

WHERE TO BUY

Online at www.hp.com/go/store or call 800.888.9909. Find a reseller at www.hp.com

Contact Information

Hewlett-Packard Company

3400 E. Harmony Road
Fort Collins, CO, 80528-9599
USA

tele: 1-970-898-0000
toll-free: 1-800-334-5144
sales@hp.com
www.hp.com/go/autodesk