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Inventor
Inventor: Powerful mechanical design software for your most ambitious ideas
What is 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.
Trusted DWG™ compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.
Why use Inventor?
Improve product performance
Use powerful 3D modelling and simulation capabilities to design and optimise performance.
Reduce repetitive tasks
Quickly create customisable 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 Inventor
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 specialised 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.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Inventor is used to quickly model, simulate and communicate design ideas.
Inventor is used by mechanical engineers who need automated and specialised tools to design and prepare for manufacturing.
With a subscription to Inventor software, you can install it on up to three computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the Software Licence Agreement (US Site) for more information.
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