What is Autodesk Inventor?

Work with a Complete Set of Tools for Design and Engineering

Inventor® Professional is a comprehensive 3D CAD solution developed to accelerate your product development process. It combines parametric, direct, freeform, and rule-based modeling approaches in a single platform. With advanced assembly tools, detailed technical documentation capabilities, and integrated product simulation features, you can create more accurate designs and production-ready outputs. All of this is achieved through an intuitive interface within an efficient and integrated workflow.

Why Should You Use Inventor?

Enhance Product Performance

Leverage powerful 3D modeling and simulation capabilities to design and optimize product performance.

Reduce Repetitive Tasks

Create customizable design configurations quickly and automate routine tasks.

Enhance Collaboration

Connect your designs with incoming customer data. Share ideas securely in a cloud-based environment.

What Can You Do with Autodesk Inventor?

Share Feedback with Built-in Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborate with anyone, anywhere, regardless of which CAD software they use.
  • Collect feedback from stakeholders from anywhere using cloud-based design review.
  • Track your product development lifecycle with a single source of data.
Be Productive with Automation, Minimize Errors
  • Quickly reconfigure your designs for your customers using iLogic-driven workflows.
  • Access the Inventor API to create add-ins.
  • Explore Autodesk Platform Services to connect your data, applications, and enterprise software.
Deliver Custom Designs Ready for BIM
  • Increase sales opportunities by providing your product data in native Revit family format.
  • Use data exchanges for collaboration when creating custom manufacturing around AEC data.
  • Enhance BIM interoperability with Inventor’s Informed Design.

Main Features of Inventor

Inventor® provides advanced 3D modeling, simulation, and visualization tools for product and mechanical design.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Parametric Modeling

With parametric modeling, easily create and edit your 3D designs through an intuitive interface, focusing on innovative ideas.

Assembly Modeling

See and evaluate how your design will fit and function at the assembly level in advance.

Technical Drawing Creation

Quickly and reliably create clear, detailed technical drawings ready for production.

COLLABORATION

Shared View Collaboration

Enable seamless collaboration with key stakeholders on your designs from any device.

Work with Non-Native Data

Open files created in different CAD systems directly and start working instantly without translation.

BIM Collaboration

Actively participate in BIM projects while reading and generating Revit data.

Informed Design with Inventor

Develop intelligent parametric models, define rich BIM content, set configurable product rules, and collaborate easily with architects, engineers, and other stakeholders using powerful cloud-based tools. Maximize accuracy, speed, and integration in your product development and delivery processes.

Fusion Interoperability

Quickly access workflows from Inventor to Fusion and get started instantly. Take advantage of advanced Fusion features like generative design, simulation, electronics, and manufacturing to make your product development process more efficient, integrated, and innovative.

Improvements in Revit Data Sharing

Securely share data between Revit building design software and Inventor. Enhanced data exchange infrastructure ensures seamless and efficient integration between BIM and MCAD systems, facilitating cross-disciplinary collaboration.

COLLABORATION

Edge Symbol

Use the new edge symbol feature with a feature panel that includes ISO-based view settings and customization options. This feature provides greater flexibility and precision in design, offering a fully compatible solution for your workflows.

Welding Symbol

Create drawing-associated welding and sub-welding symbols and include them when exporting to 3D PDF, DWF, and Shared Views. This feature improves welding processes while ensuring your documents are accurate and clear.

Finish Tool

Use the new finish tool feature to define visual and manufacturing processes such as material coating or surface finishing. This allows more precise detailing and process optimization.

DESIGN AUTOMATION

Design Configurations

Apply your engineering knowledge in a customizable format to quickly configure new designs supported by iLogic. This enables more efficient customization and faster adaptation of your designs.

Automatic Frame Design

Quickly create and simulate welded frame designs, automating processes to increase efficiency.

Sheet Metal

Design, flatten, and fully prepare complex sheet metal products for manufacturing.

MODELING

Model-Based Definition

Add manufacturing information directly to your 3D model to ensure data consistency in downstream processes.

Content Center

Easily select standard components from a broad, customizable library and integrate them into your designs.

Flexible Design Management

Easily define manufacturing variants, simplification levels, and more within the same part or assembly file.

CONNECTED DATA

PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Interoperability

Integrate your electronic and mechanical designs into a single, unified product definition. This enhances cross-disciplinary coordination, making your product development process more efficient, consistent, and error-free.

Data Management

Accelerate your product development process with tools that manage data, track revisions, and strengthen team collaboration. These features ensure your projects progress in a controlled, efficient, and error-free manner.

SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION

Dynamic Simulation

Analyze dynamic behaviors such as motion, velocity, and acceleration by applying forces to your design. This allows you to evaluate your product's real-world performance more accurately and reliably.

Stress Analysis

Perform quick checks on parts or apply detailed stress analysis to the entire product at any stage of design. This allows you to evaluate structural strength early, enhancing design reliability.

Exploded Views and Animations

Use exploded views and animations of complex assemblies in product documentation, user manuals, and assembly instructions to present the structure more clearly and visually effectively.