Mechanical design software

Find out how the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection streamlines product design, development, factory planning, and optimization.

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Modern tools for mechanical design engineers

Advanced mechanical design software from Autodesk frees up time, enhances collaboration, and boosts your capacity for innovation. Help your team work more efficiently together, with full insight into the design process to foster new ideas.

Using Product Design & Manufacturing Collection for mechanical design

Explore more design possibilities faster. Automate repetitive design tasks to save time. Identify and solve production and performance issues before manufacturing. See what can be done in Product Design & Manufacturing Collection from Autodesk.

Mechanical design workflow

Take a new approach to the mechanical design workflow, where there are fewer barriers to concepting, design, and collaboration. Improve your efficiency with the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

Benefits of mechanical design software

Use the advanced mechanical design software in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection to bring creative ideas to life and streamline workflows.

Users can enhance the design quality using integrated software.

Enhance design quality

Design faster and more accurately with integrated software that includes tools for mechanical design, simulation, and toolpath strategies.

Increase your productivity using Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

Increase productivity

Visualizations give easy insight into areas for improvement and let you to work faster and smarter. Built-in analysis and documentation tools enhance productivity.

Product Design & Manufacturing Collection helps to improve collaboration

Improve collaboration

Eliminate information silos and let everyone work together seamlessly for improved collaboration, design, creation, and review.

Save time and automate tasks using Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

Save time

Automate repetitive design tasks including product configuration and redrawing, and spend more time on important work.

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Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

Help your mechanical designers do their best work and drive more efficiency into their workflow.

Relevant software in the collection for mechanical design

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor and SOLIDWORKS—available as Inventor CAM and HSMWorks

AutoCAD

2D and 3D CAD tools, with enhanced insights, AI-automations, and collaboration features. Subscription includes AutoCAD on desktop, web, mobile, and seven specialized toolsets.

Autodesk Fusion

Cloud-based 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB, and PDM software for product design.

Inventor Tolerance Analysis

Inventor Tolerance Analysis software is designed to understand the cost impact of dimensional variation. 

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor and SOLIDWORKS—available as Inventor CAM and HSMWorks

Inventor Nastran

CAD-embedded finite element analysis software

Mechanical design resources

On-demand video guides

See how the advanced mechanical design software in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection works together and how each component enhances the design process.

Product modeling is a breeze

Learn how the collection’s 2D and 3D parametric design capabilities let you to quickly create product models.

Automate the busywork

Streamline your design process with the automation capabilities built into the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

Mechanical design frequently asked questions (FAQs)

The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection is a robust suite of advanced mechanical design software that includes integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE technology and advanced simulation. The collection also incorporates document management to connect data, processes, and people; analysis and simulation tools; manufacturing and planning tools; and production automation for rapid configuration.

Time is money. That’s why the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection was developed to drive more efficiency into the entire mechanical design process. This advanced mechanical design software suite helps streamline workflow from end to end in product development, so you can spend more time on design innovation and less on busywork.

The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection includes AutoCAD and Inventor. That means you can easily collaborate between 2D and 3D users to create models in minutes and easily handle design changes.