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3D CAD software for mechanical design

Inventor® 3D CAD software offers an easy-to-use set of tools for 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation. Digital Prototyping with Inventor helps you design and validate your products before they are built to deliver better products, reduce development costs, and get to market faster.

Autodesk is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. 100 percent of the Fortune 100 use Autodesk products to design, visualize, and simulate their projects to save time and money, enhance quality, and foster innovation.

Features:

Engineering design productivity

#Freeform modeling shape creation New

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Model organic shapes and incorporate freeform and parametric workflows into a single model.

These tools provide an alternate modeling approach to explore and create freeform shaped models using direct manipulation. Start with a freeform shape that best represents the desired geometry (box, sphere, cylinder, torus, or quadball). Then use the freeform edit tools to adjust the shape.

Large assembly design (enhanced) New

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Speed the creation, management, and documentation of large complex assembly designs.

Inventor combines design accelerators with assembly tools, so you can be sure that every part and component in an assembly design fits correctly. Accurately validate interference and mass properties to help produce quality products the first time. The improved Express Mode and a greatly enhanced graphic performance helps to reduce time and provide faster results.

Sketch constraint control (enhanced) New

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Get your sketches in shape faster and more easily with new constraint tools and settings.

With the new Relax Mode you can modify geometries that are already constrained. You gain greater control over constraints with improved display, inference, and delete options. Sketch constraints-related settings have also been reorganized into a single Constraint Settings command.

Customizable Inventor Home New

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Customize the new Inventor Home to easily access common tasks.

Inventor Home functions like a personal dashboard, providing:

* Basic or full template display
* Most recently used file list displaying rich information in the tooltip
* Expanded list of recently used files
* Ability to pin a file you are working on to make it easy to locate
* Tabs at the bottom to switch to specific file areas
* Fast Access to Team Web, Help, and the Tutorial learning path

Tutorial learning and search New

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Interactive tutorials teach the basics of sketches and parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Tutorials enable new users to experience a complete workflow from beginning to end and track their learning progress.

The enhanced search capability now provides results for commands, help articles, support content, blog and discussion groups as well as YouTube posts, with a single click.

Sheet metal design

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Simplify sheet metal design and complex mechanical part design, and improve your productivity with Digital Prototyping.

Inventor combines manufacturing information—such as punch tool parameters and custom bend tables—with an accurate 3D model of sheet metal folding. Manufacturing engineers can also use the flat-pattern editing environment to tweak flat patterns to help minimize manufacturing costs.

Sheet metal design features include:

* Sheet metal styles, flanges, fasteners, and manufacturing drawings
* Roll-formed parts
* Transitional shapes
* Punch libraries
* Flat-pattern modification