Mechanical design software for ambitious ideas
Use powerful design and engineering tools
Overview
Summary
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
Inventor overview (video: 2:08 min.)
Why use Inventor?
Use powerful 3D modeling and simulation capabilities to design and optimize performance.
Quickly create customizable configurations of your designs and automate common tasks.
Connect your designs with incoming customer data and share ideas in a secure cloud-based service.
Highlights
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
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
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
What's New
The latest release of Inventor® 3D CAD software is packed with user-requested updates and enhancements to help manage your design process, speed your connected engineering workflows, and reduce repetitive tasks.
Securely share data between Revit building design software and Inventor using an improved approach for seamless BIM and MCAD (mechanical CAD) interoperability.
Better prepare your designs for manufacturing with the new mark command, updates to sheet metal export, and support for dimensional tolerances in additional features.
Gain more control of your bill of material and manage tolerances. Plus enhanced performance and productivity improvements for graphics and large assemblies.
Take advantage of more flexible inputs, clarity in method naming, and consistency across interfaces.
Adjust element position in 2D plan views to add clarity to documentation sets.
Extend Inventor with the PDM Collection
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Integrate Business Systems
We develop data sharing solutions to improve and speed up the communication between CAD & business management technologies.
Optimize Business Processes
We do unique assessments of our clients, enabling them to address workflow challenges, identify opportunities & achieve objectives.
Leverage the Power of BIM
By understanding BIM philosophies we can develop & implement BIM solutions for any project or establish BIM standards for any company.
Have Questions About Complex Applications?
Speak to us about your operational requirements or outcomes and we'll tailor a solution best suited to your business.
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