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Overview

Summary

Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software provides mechanical design, documentation, and simulation tools.

System requirements:
Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software

Inventor overview (video: 1:53 min.)

What's New in Inventor

Associative Mirror
Associative mirror

Use powerful 3D modeling and simulation capabilities to design and optimise for product performance.

Sheet Metal
Sheet Metal

Increase product development agility with continued modernization of the sheet metal creation interface and punch creation.

Patterning
Patterning

Speed up part modeling with a new interface for patterning bodies and features along with new options for irregular spacing, direction, and more

Simplify
Simplify

The automated feature used to quickly exclude bodies and features for a simplified representation has been extended to part models.

Revit Inoperability
Revit interoperability

Collaborate more efficiently with new and enhanced features for authoring BIM content.

Drawing
Drawings

Improve communication with manufacturing with updates to projected detail views and better control of broken views.

Why use Inventor?

Improved Product Performance
Improve product performance

Use powerful 3D modeling and simulation capabilities to design and optimise for product performance.

Reduce Repetitive Tasks
Reduce repetitive tasks

Create customisable design configurations quickly and automate common tasks. 

Better Collaboration
Boost collaboration

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

Inventor streamlines 3D mechanical design

Design Smarter, Manufacture Faster - See Inventor in Action!

Book a demo today and discover how Inventor streamlines 3D mechanical design, automation, and simulation for efficient product development.

Highlights

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 anywhere using cloud-based design review.
  • Track your product development lifecycle with a single data source.

Move more efficiently with automated processes

  • Quickly reconfigure your designs for customers with workflows powered by iLogic. 
  • Access Inventor API to create add-ins.
  • Explore Autodesk Platform Services to connect your data, applications, and enterprise software.

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

Learn manufacturing for BIM projects (video: 1:39 min.)

Deliver custom designs that are BIM ready

  • Increase sales opportunities by providing product data in native Revit family format.
  • Use data exchanges for collaboration when creating custom fabrications around AEC data. 
  • Boost BIM interoperability with Informed Design for Inventor

Extend Inventor with the PDM 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.

Inventor Tolerance Analysis

Inventor Nastran

Factory Design Utilities

Best practices for 2D & 3D design
Work in Inventor and AutoCAD to unlock capabilities that benefit the entire product development cycle. (Watch video 1:50 min.)

The Micrographics Advantage

We don’t just sell software, we are technical experts who understand your industry. We can help you:

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 andwe'll tailor a solution best suited to your business.

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Inventor

System Requirements for Autodesk® Inventor® 2026 Windows

Operating System

64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows® 10. See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information.

CPU

Recommended: 3.0 GHz or greater, 4 or more cores
Minimum: 2.5 GHz or greater

Memory

Recommended: 32 GB RAM or more
Minimum: 16 GB RAM for less than 500-part assemblies

Display Resolution

Recommended: 3840 x 2160 (4K); Preferred scaling: 100%, 125%, 150% or 200%
Minimum: 1280 x 1024

Graphics

Recommended: 8 GB GPU with 106 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Minimum: 2 GB GPU with 29 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
See the Certified Hardware

Disk space

Installer plus full installation: 40 GB

Network

Internet connection for web install with Autodesk Access, Autodesk collaboration functionality, web downloads, and licensing.
See Autodesk Network License Manager for Windows

Pointing Device

MS-Mouse compliant
Productivity: 3DConnexion SpaceMouse®, driver version 10.7.0 or later.

.NET

.NET Version 8.0 or later. Windows Updates enabled for installation.

Spreadsheet

Full local install of Microsoft Excel 2016 or later or LibreOffice 7.2 or later for workflows that create and edit spreadsheets. Inventor workflows that read or export spreadsheet data do not require spreadsheet editor. See Inventor Excel Requirements for more information.

Office 365 subscribers must ensure they have a local installation of Microsoft Excel.
Windows Excel Starter®, OpenOffice®, and browser-based Office 365 applications are not supported.

Browser

Google Chrome™ or equivalent

For Complex Models, Complex Mold Assemblies, and Large Assemblies (typically more than 1,000 parts)

CPU Type

Recommended: 3.30 GHz or greater, 4 or more cores

Memory

Recommended: 64 GB RAM or greater

Graphics

Recommended: 8 GB GPU with 106 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
See the Certified Hardware.

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