Autodesk Inventor: Mechanical design software for ambitious ideas
Use powerful design and engineering tools.
What is Autodesk Inventor?
Inventor® 3D CAD software provides professional-grade mechanical design, documentation and product simulation tools.
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Powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform and rules-based design capabilities.
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Integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and pipe, cable & harness, presentations, rendering, simulation, machine design and more.
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TrustedDWG® compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.
Inventor overview (video: 2:08 min.)
Drum filling machine designed by Feige Filling
Commercial chiller model made by Mammoth Inc.
Trencher design by Mastenbroek
Automotive material process line
Why use Inventor?
Improve product performance
Use powerful 3D modelling and simulation capabilities to design and optimise performance.
Reduce repetitive tasks
Quickly create customisable configurations of your designs and automate common tasks.
Boost collaboration
Connect your designs with incoming customer data and share ideas in a secure cloud-based service.
What you can do with Autodesk Inventor
Share designs with key stakeholders (video: 2:13 min.)
Share feedback with built-in collaboration tools
- Work with anyone, anywhere, no matter what CAD software they use.
- Collect feedback from stakeholders wherever they are using cloud-based design review.
- Follow the product development lifecycle with one data model.
Automate model creation with iLogic (video: 1:50 min.)
Satisfy demands for custom products and automate processes
- Design efficiently using specialised industry toolsets.
- Enable design automation powered by iLogic.
- Access Inventor API to create add-ins.
- Access Forge Design Automation API for running job processes in the cloud.
Learn manufacturing for BIM projects (video: 1:39 min.)
BIM Interoperability
- Increase your sales opportunities while participating in BIM projects.
- Use data exchanges for a highly collaborative workflow when creating custom fabrications around Revit data.
- Include necessary authoring metadata and export your designs to a BIM-ready Revit format.
“Inventor is helpful because races in our league can be decided by thousandths of a second.”
— Scott Finnis, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports
“There’s so much power behind iLogic and we fell in love with the capabilities it provides.”
– JJ Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, Viewrail
“To model an impeller manually took a couple of days previously. With iLogic it takes about 15 minutes.”
– Alex Curtin, Product Manager, FS-Elliott
“We’ve shown our internal departments that they can create a new model in two hours instead of three weeks.”
— Lune Riezebos, Application Specialist in Service Delivery, GEA
Extend the capabilities of Inventor with the collection
The collection is a powerful set of applications that provides extended capabilities to Inventor and AutoCAD for engineers who design complex and custom products, equipment and systems.
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Product Design & Manufacturing Collection includes:
Learn how you can do more with Inventor
Best practices for 2D and 3D design
Work in Inventor and AutoCAD to unlock capabilities that benefit the entire product development cycle. (Watch video 1:50 min.)
Explore a complete product development solution
See how the powerful integrated tools for Inventor bring your most ambitious designs to life. (Watch video 2:34 min.)
Explore Inventor resources
BLOG
See what’s new in Inventor
Discover the latest enhancements in Inventor and begin implementing them into your workflows.
YOUTUBE
Inventor YouTube channel
Watch videos on the latest release, including productivity tips.
TUTORIALS
Trial resource centre
Whether you’re just getting started or are a seasoned CAD user, check out these tutorials.
Find out how you can do more with Inventor
Learn from the experts about the powerful integrated tools in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.
