Experience your design before it’s built.
Make Digital Prototyping your competitive advantage.
Industry experts are championing Digital Prototyping as a way to cost-effectively validate design ideas and accelerate the development of competitive products.
The Autodesk® Inventor® product line provides a comprehensive and flexible set of software for 3D mechanical design, simulation, tooling creation, and design communication that help you cost-effectively take advantage of a Digital Prototyping workflow to design and build better products in less time. Autodesk® Inventor® software is the foundation of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping.
The Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that enables you to validate the form, fit, and function of a design as you work, minimizing the need to test the design with physical prototypes. By enabling you to use a digital prototype to design, visualize, and simulate your products digitally, Inventor software helps you communicate more effectively, reduce errors, and deliver more innovative product designs faster.
AutoCAD Users: Move beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping.
With Autodesk Inventor software, you can easily integrate AutoCAD® and 3D data into a single digital model to create a virtual representation of the final product. Inventor software helps you realize the benefits of Digital Prototyping by providing direct read and write of native DWG™ files, so there’s no risk of inaccurate translations.
Design and Validate Your Products Digitally
Autodesk Inventor software products include an intuitive parametric design environment for developing initial concept sketches and kinematic models of parts and assemblies. Inventor software automates the advanced geometry creation of intelligent components, such as plastic parts, steel frames, rotating machinery, tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and wire harnesses. Inventor software helps reduce the geometry burden so you can rapidly build and refine digital prototypes that validate design functions and help minimize manufacturing costs.
Traditionally, validating the operating characteristics of a design before it was built usually meant hiring expensive specialists. But with Inventor software, you don’t need to be a simulation expert to effectively simulate and optimize designs digitally. The Inventor product line includes easy-to-use and tightly integrated part and assembly-level motion simulation and stress analysis functionality. By simulating stress, deflection, and motion, you can optimize and validate your design under real-world conditions, before the product or part is ever built.
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Why not consider the Suite option?
2012 Product Design Suites
Inventor Key New Features
| Feature |
Inventor LT |
Inventor |
Inventor Routed Systems |
Inventor Tooling |
Inventor Simulation |
Inventor Professional |
| New Design Methodologies |
| Direct Manipulation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Dynamic Input for Sketching |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Assemble Tool |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Rules-based Design |
| iLogic TechYeslogy |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| iCopy Feature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| State of the Art Visualisation |
| Realistic Rendering |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| High-Quality Visual Materials |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Improved Lighting Control |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Visual Fidelity across Products |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interoperability |
| Alias-Inventor Interoperability |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| CATIA Translators |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 3D Printing Enhancements |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| BIM Exchange Enhancements |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Architectural View Scales |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Simulation |
| Frame Analysis |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Simulation Guide |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Materials Assignment for Simulation |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Editable Simulation Reports |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tooling and Mold Design |
| Unique Instance Support |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Core/Cavity Creation Robustness |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Dynamic Simulation of Mold Assemblies |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Enhanced Mold Base and Component Library Search |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Which Inventor product is right for me?
| |
AutoCAD Inventor Suite |
AutoCAD Inventor Routed Systems Suite |
AutoCAD Inventor Simulation Suite |
AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite |
AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite |
| Autodesk Inventor |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| AutoCAD Mechanical |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cable and Harness Design |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Tube, Pipe and Flexible Hose Design |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Stress Analysis (FEA) |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Dynamic Simulation |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Mold and Tooling Design |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Autodesk Vault |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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