Inventor: Powerful mechanical design software for your most ambitious ideas
Work with a complete set of design and engineering tools.
What is Inventor?
Inventor® 3D CAD software provides professional-grade mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools.
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Powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities.
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Integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and pipe, cable & harness, presentations, rendering, simulation, machine design, and more.
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TrustedDWG® compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.
Inventor overview (video: 2:01 min.)
Drum filling machine designed by Feige Filling
Commercial chiller model made by Mammoth Inc.
Stationary plant model from Balzer Pacific Equipment Co.
Automotive material process line
Trencher design by Mastenbroek
Why use Inventor?
Improve product performance
Use powerful 3D modeling and simulation capabilities to design and optimize performance.
Reduce repetitive tasks
Quickly create customizable 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.
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Satisfy demands for custom products and automate processes
- Design efficiently using specialized 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.
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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.
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“To model an impeller manually took a couple of days previously. With iLogic it takes about 15 minutes.”
– Alex Curtin, Product Manager, FS-Elliott
“There’s so much power behind iLogic and we fell in love with the capabilities it provides.”
– JJ Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, Viewrail
“Inventor has improved our efficiency in engineering and design and shortened lead times at least 20%.”
– Frank Camus, Vice President of Engineering and Design, DIS-TRAN
Extend the capabilities of Inventor with the collection
The collection is a powerful set of applications that provides extended capabilities to Inventor and AutoCAD for engineers who design complex and custom products, equipment, and systems.
Product Design & Manufacturing Collection includes:
Learn how you can do more with Inventor
Best practices for 2D and 3D design
Work in Inventor and AutoCAD to unlock capabilities that benefit the entire product development cycle. (Watch video 1:39 min.)
Explore a complete product development solution
See how the powerful integrated tools for Inventor bring your most ambitious designs to life. (Watch video 1:52 min.)
Explore Inventor resources
BLOG
See what’s new in Inventor
Discover the latest enhancements in Inventor and begin implementing them into your workflows.
YOUTUBE
Inventor YouTube channel
Watch videos on the latest release, including productivity tips.
TUTORIALS
Trial resource center
Whether you’re just getting started or are a seasoned CAD user, check out these tutorials.
Find out how you can do more with Inventor
Learn from the experts about the powerful integrated tools in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Inventor is used to quickly model, simulate, and communicate design ideas.
Autodesk provides download and install instructions for individuals and administrators. Your available downloads appear in Autodesk Account. Find your product, select a version, platform, language, and download method. For more information, visit the Autodesk Knowledge Network.
Inventor is used by mechanical engineers who need automated and specialized tools to design and prepare for manufacturing.
Your Inventor subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.
With a subscription to Inventor software, you can install it on up to 3 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 License Agreement for more information.
Launch your trial software and click Subscribe Now on the trial screen or buy Inventor here. When buying your subscription, enter the same email address and password combination you used to sign in to your trial. Learn more about converting a trial to a paid subscription.
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