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.
