By: Loren Welch, Inventor Product Manager<\/p>\n
Inventor 2018 will officially roll out today. Thousands of our users have shared their thoughts with our development team and tried out alphas and betas over the past year in order to make their mark on the Inventor 2018 release \u2013 and we can\u2019t thank them enough for the feedback. We\u2019ll be digging into specific enhancements in 2018 over the next few weeks on the Inventor Blog<\/a>, but in the meantime, I wanted to offer a quick overview of the overall release and some background on the top new features.<\/p>\n With Inventor 2018, we focused on three key areas: Professional-Grade Design, Expanded Interoperability and The Inventor Experience:<\/p>\n Professional-Grade Design<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n As we all know, design tools can never be fast enough \u2013 especially when working with large assemblies and drawings. Building on work we have been implementing over the past few releases, Inventor 2018 delivers significant performance improvements for customers who need to open, update and navigate faster within their Inventor assemblies and drawings. Based on feedback from customers during the alpha and beta testing of Inventor 2018, users are seeing speed improvements from 2X-10X on their designs.<\/p>\n