Design & Engineering
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DFA in Autodesk Inventor: Simulate, Optimize, and Automate Your Workflow
Engineering teams can improve profitability by applying Design for Assembly (DFA) principles early in the development cycle. This article explores how technical strategies for part reduction and assembly simulation ensure efficient production. Autodesk Inventor provides professional tools to automate bill of materials and optimize complex mechanical designs, streamlining manufacturing. Design for assembly (DFA) is an…
Design & Engineering
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PHS West Transforms Design Automation and Product Configuration with Autodesk Inventor
Learn how PHS West scaled design automation and product configuration with Autodesk Inventor, reducing errors and cutting sales drawings from hours to minutes. PHS West, a leading manufacturer of highly configurable medical carts and large-scale data center infrastructure solutions, has built its reputation on quality, customization, and close collaboration with customers. As product complexity and…
Design & Engineering
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Can GD&T Be Used for Inspection and Quality Control?
GD&T is more than a design standard. It’s a foundation for inspection and quality control. Learn how it supports functional inspection, reduces quality risk, and connects design to manufacturing. While geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is often introduced as a way to communicate design intent, its real power shows up downstream. In modern manufacturing, it’s…
Design & Engineering
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Publishing Assemblies to Content Center in Autodesk Inventor: Standardizing More Than Just Parts
Learn how Autodesk Inventor now supports publishing assemblies to Content Center, making reusable sub‑assemblies easier to standardize, place, and configure across designs. For many Inventor users, Content Center has long been a cornerstone of efficient design workflows. It’s where teams manage and reuse standard components, including fasteners, hardware, and purchased parts, without reinventing the wheel…
Autodesk Inventor
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How Do Engineers Manage Motion, Kinematics, and Interference for Industrial Machinery Design?
Learn how engineers manage motion and kinematics in industrial machinery design, including advanced techniques for managing mechanical degrees of freedom and detecting interference. Industrial machines are complex assemblies of multiple moving parts that must interact without physical contact. For successful use in the field, engineers need to determine how these components move relative to one…
Design & Engineering
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Code Blocks in Autodesk Inventor: A Simple Path to iLogic Automation
Learn how Code Blocks makes iLogic automation in Autodesk Inventor easier with visual, block‑based rules that help designers automate tasks and learn iLogic faster. Automation has long been one of Autodesk Inventor’s biggest advantages. For years, iLogic has helped designers and engineers automate repetitive tasks, configure complex designs, and enforce design standards directly inside their…
Design & Engineering
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Why 2D Technical Drawings Still Matter—Even in a 3D‑First Design World
Learn why 2D technical drawings remain essential in a 3D‑first world, how associative drawings work, and why Autodesk Fusion and Inventor lead for manufacturing. 3D modeling has transformed how engineers and product designers work. Parametric models, assemblies, and digital simulation make it possible to design faster, collaborate better, and validate ideas earlier than ever before.…
Design & Engineering
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Driving Fabrication Accuracy With Inventor’s MBD Capabilities and Connected Data in Vault
Explore how Model‑Based Definition (MBD) in Autodesk Inventor, combined with connected product data in Autodesk Vault, improves fabrication accuracy by replacing drawing‑centric workflows with a single, controlled digital definition of design intent. What Is fabrication accuracy in manufacturing? Fabrication accuracy refers to how closely manufactured parts match the intended design geometry, tolerances, and functional requirements…
Autodesk Inventor
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Meet Autodesk Assistant in Inventor 2027
Autodesk Inventor has consistently proven itself as a superpower for automation. The specialized modeling tools quickly design sheet metal, tube and pipe, and weld frames. iLogic reduces the time it takes to perform modeling changes from days to just minutes. These features save time so you can focus on more important work. So what’s next…
Design & Engineering
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Cost of Poor Quality Categories: How Supplier Defects Drive Hidden Manufacturing Costs
Explore cost of poor quality categories and how supplier defects increase COPQ through scrap, rework, and warranty costs, and how to reduce the impact. Supplier defects are one of the most persistent and expensivie contributors to the cost of poor quality (COPQ) in manufacturing. While defects may first appear as isolated quality issues, their true…
Design & Engineering
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From Configurable Products to Custom Fabrication: Modernizing Building Product Design with PDMC and Inventor
Explore how building product manufacturers modernize design workflows by moving from configurable products to custom fabrication using Inventor and the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (PDMC). Building product manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver more variation, more customization, and faster turnaround, without sacrificing quality or profitability. Customers expect products tailored to their specific projects,…
Design & Engineering
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Improving Product Performance with Inventor and Inventor Nastran | PDMC
Learn how Inventor and Inventor Nastran, part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (PDMC), help teams validate performance earlier and scale from CAD‑embedded simulation to advanced analysis. In mechanical product development, performance decisions are often made too late—after geometry is locked, drawings are released, or prototypes are already on the shop floor. At that…
Design & Engineering