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Inventor enhancements over the years

Inventor is 3D mechanical solid modeling design software developed by Autodesk with the initial release in 1999. Over the past 22 years many companies around the world have adopted is as their primary CAD tool for professional-grade mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation.

Inventor over the past 6 years

21

Product updates

758

Total enhancements

345

Customer ideas

Inventor enhancement timeline

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2024 | 2024.1 featured enhancements for Inventor

  • iLogic with Vault*

  • Finish utility

  • Mark feature enhancements

  • Drawing revision cloud*

  • View setting improvements*

  • Tube and pipe enhancements

  • Parameter enhancements

  • Optimized bounding box assembly

  • Connected inspection workflow

  • Weld symbol

  • Edge symbol

  • Model-based definition enhancements*

*Customer Idea

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Meet some of the Inventor Product Team

Dan Szymanski

Dan Szymanski

Sr. Product Manager Inventor Autodesk

Johnson Shiue

Johnson Shiue

Sr. Principal Engineer Inventor Autodesk

Christian Smith

Christian Smith

Director, Software Development Inventor Autodesk

Frodo Zhou

Frodo Zhou

Sr. Software Development Inventor Autodesk

Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell

Sr. Principal Engineer Inventor Autodesk

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