It’s time to announce another great release for Autodesk Inventor! Discover over 140 enhancements to help you solve your everyday design challenges. Each of them are carefully crafted to improve user experience, enhance functionality, and streamline design processes.
Check out the following video demonstrations for some of the highlights for this release. If you want to learn more and ask questions to the experts, then be sure to register for the upcoming webinars listed at the end of the article.
Inventor 2026 highlights
Associative mirror
Mirroring and editing your assemblies is faster and easier than ever. Any changes you make to the source component position or geometry are reflected and remain associative on the mirrored side.
Sheet Metal
The sheet metal interface continues to see modernized improvements to features like the contour flange, corner round, and punch tool. This provides a more streamlined workflow that includes direct manipulation in the graphics area.
Patterning
Patterning features has also seen modernization improvements for rectangular, circular, and sketch driven. All three of these pattern features have been moved to the property panel and include a new shaded preview and graphic manipulation. Brand new to the rectangular and circular patterns is irregular spacing. Choose specific instances from the graphics view and specify any value.
Simplify parts
The simplify command can now be accessed in the part environment from the 3D model tab in the Simplification panel. Quickly exclude bodies by size, remove features, or replace bodies with envelopes.
Revit interoperability
Interoperability with Revit data has seen several enhancements for this release. New commands have been added in the BIM Content Environment. The UCS and Placement commands assist in the proper orientation and location of your assets. There are also new commands to include properties and simplify your data for export. And quickly include Revit Categories to your parts and assemblies from the iProperties dialog or in the Bill of Material interface.
Break view
There is a new Break View workflow that enables more control of your break lines. You can now place your break lines in a sketch and dimension the distance to entities within the view. The sketch is stored in the browser for future editing when needed.
Register to learn more
In this release of Inventor, we have continued our commitment to provide tools to streamline your design process, improve your experience, and remove boundaries for seamless interoperability. Our goal is to equip you with the most advanced tools to help you get your designs to manufacturing as quickly as possible.
The videos above are only a portion of the enhancements for this release. Be sure to register for our upcoming webinar series to learn more about Inventor 2026 and ask questions to our experts. We have three webinars based on your region. The link to the May 20 webinar will be coming soon.
Tuesday, April 22 – 2:00 pm (EST) / 11 am (PT)
Wednesday, April 23 – 3 pm (BST) / 4 pm (CEST) / 10 am (EST)
Wednesday, May 20 – 8:00 am (UTC / Singapore)
