Autodesk Inventor: Mechanical design software for ambitious ideas

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What is Autodesk Inventor?

Inventor® 3D CAD software provides professional-grade mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools.

Powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities.

Integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and pipe, cable & harness, presentations, rendering, simulation, machine design, and more.

TrustedDWG^® compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.

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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

Industrial machine for filling steel drums with liquids or grains

Model showing the components of a water-cooled chiller

Rendering of trencher with wireframe and solid geometry digging in soil cutout

View of Hewland transmission design combining 2D drawing and 3D model

Why use Inventor?

Improve product performance

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

Reduce repetitive tasks

Quickly create customizable 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.

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Automate model creation with iLogic (video: 1:50 min.)

Satisfy demands for custom products and automate processes

Design efficiently using specialized 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.

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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.

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“Inventor is helpful because races in our league can be decided by thousandths of a second.”

— Scott Finnis, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

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“There’s so much power behind iLogic and we fell in love with the capabilities it provides.”

– JJ Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, Viewrail

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“To model an impeller manually took a couple of days previously. With iLogic it takes about 15 minutes.”

– Alex Curtin, Product Manager, FS-Elliott

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“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

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Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

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