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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, minimising the need to test the design with physical prototypes. By enabling you to use a digital prototype to design, visualise, and simulate your products digitally, Inventor software helps you communicate more effectively, reduce errors, and deliver more innovative product designs faster.

Inventor can help you:

• Integrate data from AutoCAD® software and 3D data into a single digital model and create a virtual representation of the final product
• Streamline projects that require opening third-party CAD data
• Improve productivity by automating repetitive design workflows
• Better collaborate with accurate 2D documentation and 3D visualisation tools
• Efficiently and securely exchange design data with integrated data management
• Optimise material selection based on environmental impact, cost, and performance to make better sustainable design decisions

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 minimise 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 optimise 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 optimise and validate your design under real-world conditions, before the product or part is ever built.

Improve Design Communication and Collaboration

Reduce errors and associated engineering change orders before manufacturing by generating manufacturing documentation directly from your validated 3D digital prototype. Inventor offers rapid and accurate output of production-ready drawings directly from the 3D model. Inventor product bundles also include AutoCAD® Mechanical software for situations that require a high-productivity 2D mechanical drafting tool.

Inventor is tightly integrated with Autodesk data management applications, enabling the efficient and secure exchange of design data and promoting earlier collaboration between design and manufacturing workgroups. Different workgroups can manage and track all components of a digital prototype with free Autodesk® Design Review software, the all-digital way to review, measure, mark up, and track changes to designs, allowing for better reuse of crucial design data, management of bills of materials (BOMs), and collaboration with other teams and partners.

With different product configurations that offer specific levels of functionality to fit your design needs, no company is more focused than Autodesk on helping you create accurate digital prototypes and bring better products to market faster at less cost.

More information

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