Overview
Inventor CAD software provides professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools. Work efficiently with a powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities.
- 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.
- Trusted DWGâ„¢ compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.
Why use Inventor ?
- Powerful mechanical design software for your most ambitious ideas.
Design, Visualize, and Simulate your 3D Mechanical Design.
Fully integrated with Fusion 360. - For pro-rated licenses or any custom quote call (866) 362 8970
- Discover advanced 3D mechanical design and simulation tools that enhance your workflow. Utilize parametric, direct, and freeform design capabilities while benefiting from integrated features for complex projects. Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders, automate processes, and leverage the latest enhancements for improved efficiency and innovation in your designs.
What can you do with Revit?
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.
- Automate the simplification of your designs for required LOD.
- Include necessary metadata for BIM-authoring tools.
- Export your designs to a BIM-ready Revit format.
BIM interoperability
- Increase your sales opportunities while participating in BIM projects.
- Automate the simplification of your designs for required LOD.
- Include necessary metadata for BIM-authoring tools.
- Export your designs to a BIM-ready Revit format.
Key Features

Parametric modeling
Focus on design as you create and edit your 3D models with an intuitive user interface
Assembly modeling
See how your design will fit and perform at the assembly leve
Drawing creation
Quickly create clear, accurate, detailed drawings for manufacturing
Shared view collaboration
Collaborate with key stakeholders on your designs from any device
Work with non-native data
Directly open designs created from other CAD systems with no translation necessary
BIM interoperability
Read and author Revit data as you participate in BIM projects
Design configurations
Speed your 3D modeling process by rapidly creating new configurations of your designs
Automated frame design
Quickly create and simulate 3D models of your weld frame designs
Sheet metal
Design and prepare complex sheet metal products for manufacturing
Model-based definition
Include manufacturing information in your 3D model for downstream applications
Content center
Choose your standard components from a comprehensive customizable library
Shape Generator
Create and evaluate high-performing design options in minutes
Features
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Product Design
- Parametric modeling - Focus on design as you create and edit your 3D models with an intuitive user interface.
- Assembly modeling - See how your design will go together and perform at the assembly level.
Drawing creation - Quickly create clear, accurate, detailed drawings for manufacturing.
Collaboration
- Shared view collaboration - Collaborate on your models or designs online. Anyone can review and comment on shared views in the Autodesk viewer.
- Work with non-native data - Maintain an associative link to non-native CAD data.
- BIM interoperability - Convert configurable 3D CAD models into BIM objects.
- Fusion 360 interoperability - Quickly access and launch Inventor-to-Fusion 360 workflows, including generative design, simulation, electronics, and manufacturing.
- Revit data exchange enhancements - Securely share data between Revit building design software and Inventor using an improved approach for seamless BIM (Building Information Modeling) and MCAD (mechanical CAD) interoperability.
- Documentation enhancements - Get a clearer understanding of your design going into production with updates to view creation, model-based definition, and 3D annotations.
Design Automation
- Design configurations - Enable rapid configurations powered by iLogic.
- Automated frame design - Quickly design and test structural frames.
- Sheet metal - Design and prepare complex sheet metal products for manufacturing.
Modeling
- Model-based definition - Include manufacturing information in your 3D model for downstream applications.
- Content center - Choose your standard components from a comprehensive customizable library.
- Shape Generator - Create and evaluate high-performing design options in minutes.
- Flexible modeling - Use the right modeling tool for every job with parametric, freeform, and direct modeling tools.
- Direct modeling - Use easy push/pull controls to move, rotate, resize, or scale features from imported geometries.
- Freeform modeling - Freely sculpt the shape of your design by moving points, edges, and faces.
Mechanical concept and layout design - Open DWGâ„¢ files directly inside Inventor as the basis for your 3D model. - Component generators and calculators - Use built-in calculators to inform the design of common joints such as welds, clamps, and press fits.
- Tube and pipe design - Use a combination of automated tools and full-control design functions in Inventor to build tube and pipe runs.
- Part modeling enhancements - Better prepare your designs for manufacturing with the new mark command, updates to sheet metal export, and support for dimensional tolerances in additional features.
- Assembly modeling enhancements - Gain more control of your bill of material and manage tolerances. Enhancements also include performance and productivity improvements for graphics and large assemblies.
Connected Data
- Printed circuit board interoperability - Integrate your electronics and mechanical designs into a single, complete definition of your product.
- Data management - Robust search function makes it easy to find files and quickly copy design files. Connects to Vault (included in Product Design & Manufacturing Collection).
Simulation and visualization
- Dynamic simulation - Apply forces to evaluate the motion, speed, and acceleration of your design.
Stress analysis - Run quick checks on parts or perform an in-depth analysis of the entire product at any stage. - Exploded views and animations - Use exploded views and animations of complex assemblies in product documentation, manuals, and assembly instructions.
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