Autodesk Inventor Professional 2025

Autodesk Inventor: Mechanical design software for ambitious ideas Use powerful design and engineering tools.

What is Autodesk Inventor?

Inventor® 3D CAD software provides professional-grade mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools.  

• Powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities. 
• Integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and pipe, cable & harness, presentations, rendering, simulation, machine design, and more. 
• TrustedDWG® compatibility and powerful Model-Based Definition capabilities for embedding manufacturing information directly in the 3D model.

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. 

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.

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.

What’s new in Inventor 2025

Part modeling - Explore improvements to the Finish feature and more to boost your design productivity.

Assembly modeling - Speed up product design with simplification enhancements and faster placement for fasteners.

Drawing -  Improve collaboration and satisfy global standards with enhancements to 3D annotations and 2D drawing documentation.

Sheet metal - Increase product development agility with the modernized interface for sheet metal creation.

Interoperability - Collaborate more effectively with updates to interoperability for architectural, engineering, and construction data.