Autodesk Inventor 2027 what's new

Autodesk Inventor 2027 introduces a new wave of enhancements focused on helping engineers design faster, work smarter, and stay connected across their workflows. This release brings meaningful improvements to everyday productivity, powerful new AI-driven capabilities like the Autodesk Assistant, expanded automation through visual iLogic tools, new part modeling tools, and stronger interoperability enhancements.

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Autodesk Assistant

Autodesk Inventor 2027 introduces the Autodesk Assistant, an AI-powered experience that transforms how you interact with your designs by enabling you to simply ask questions, give instructions, and receive meaningful results, much like collaborating with a colleague. With a natural-language interface built directly into Inventor, you can quickly analyze models, create model states, suppress components, generate parameters, and automate repetitive tasks, without opening multiple files or writing code. Whether you’re defining parametric designs, checking manufacturability, or exporting data, the Autodesk Assistant helps you move faster and work more efficiently. By streamlining everyday workflows and surfacing insights instantly, it allows you to focus more on engineering and innovation, while laying the foundation for a future where AI becomes a true partner in the design process.

iLogic Codeblocks

Inventor 2027 continues to expand the power of automation by making it more accessible than ever with the introduction of Codeblocks for iLogic. Long considered a superpower for automating tasks, configuring designs, and enforcing standards, iLogic is now easier to adopt through a new visual programming experience that replaces scripting with intuitive, drag-and-drop logic. By connecting puzzle-like blocks that represent parameters, conditions, and actions, users can build automation workflows step by step, guided by a system that helps them understand how everything fits together. At the same time, Codeblocks bridges the gap to advanced usage by showing the underlying iLogic code in real time, enabling users to learn, refine, and extend their rules as they grow. The result is a more approachable path to automation, empowering more designers and engineers to create smarter models, streamline repetitive work, and unlock new levels of productivity.

New slot feature

Inventor 2027 introduces a new Slot feature that brings greater speed, precision, and flexibility to one of the most common design tasks. With an intuitive in-canvas experience and a modern property panel, you can quickly define slot size, orientation, and placement with full control. Supporting standard, countersunk, and counterbore options, the feature delivers the same familiar power as the hole command while expanding your ability to design for real-world manufacturing needs. Whether driving slot size through dimensions, centerline definitions, or fastener-based clearance, and leveraging reusable presets for common configurations, the new slot feature streamlines your workflow, helping you design faster, reduce friction, and focus on what matters most.

Assembly mirror enhancements

Inventor 2027 enhances the assembly mirror workflow with greater flexibility and control, allowing you to define exactly how mirrored components behave based on your design intent. Whether you want to maintain associativity with the original, break the link, create a new file with Save Copy As, or mirror the component’s feature tree, you now have multiple options to match real-world requirements. You can also exclude specific components from the operation and, with the new Associative Placement capability, reposition mirrored components while preserving their relationship to the source design. Together, these improvements make it easier to create and manage mirrored assemblies, giving you the freedom to adapt designs quickly while maintaining accuracy and efficiency.

Content Center enhancement

Inventor 2027 expands the power of Content Center by enabling you to publish and reuse complete assemblies, not just individual parts, bringing a new level of efficiency and standardization to your design workflows. Now, commonly used multi-component models like cylinders, motors, and other purchased assemblies can be stored, managed, and inserted just as easily as standard components. With a familiar publishing experience, support for metadata and previews, and flexible placement options, including configurable assemblies with model states, teams can build richer libraries that reflect real-world design needs. This enhancement makes it easier to reuse proven designs, maintain consistency across projects, and accelerate development.

Conclusion

Those were just a few of the many enhancements included with Inventor 2027. This release represents a significant step forward in how designers and engineers work, bringing together AI-driven assistance, more accessible automation, and powerful enhancements across modeling and assembly workflows. From collaborating with the Autodesk Assistant, to unlocking automation with iLogic Codeblocks, to streamlining everyday tasks with features like the new slot command, enhanced assembly mirror, and expanded Content Center, this release is all about helping you move faster, work smarter, and design with greater confidence.

These innovations are designed not just to improve individual features, but to elevate your entire workflow, reducing friction, increasing reuse, and enabling new ways to solve complex design challenges.

Now it’s your turn to experience what’s possible. Explore Inventor 2027, try these new capabilities in your own workflows, and see how they can help you unlock new levels of productivity and innovation in your designs.