engineering

Why talk about the Factory Design Utilities on the Inventor Blog? Inventor plays a key role in helping users design and build their factories. It is used to define factory layouts, to design much of the industrial machinery installed in the factory, and it is used to do the detailed integration of the equipment to […]

By now you have likely seen what’ s new in Inventor 2020 and the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. When you launch Inventor 2020 for the first time, you see the new modern icons (over 7,000) and the new lighter theme that looks very similar to AutoCAD and other Autodesk products, but there is much […]

You have probably already seen the Inventor 2020 What’s New post highlighting the new light theme & icons as well as all the goodies we have packed into Inventor 2020. Now it’s time to see what we have done with the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection for 2020. Along with all of the new enhancements […]

Over the next few weeks, customers across the globe will start to see Inventor 2020 available for download in their Autodesk Accounts and the Autodesk Desktop App. Calendar year 2019 marks 20 years of Inventor in the market, and Inventor 2020 delivers enhanced user interface and workflows, more professional grade functionality and even more customer-driven […]

With AU2018 wrapped up, you might be thinking “I don’t have to think about AU for another year”. Well, you would be half right. AU2018 was an awesome event with record high attendance and amazing classes, all made possible by you our customer, vendors, and partners. While AU2019 is a year away (and no, you […]

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Part 1: The challenge of Product Design I’ve been doing this for a while now… I promise I won’t subject you to any of those “back in my day” discourses, however, suffice it to say that my professional career began in the years BC. Not THAT BC, I’m not THAT old… rather BC as in […]

With each release of Autodesk Inventor, we evaluate commands, tools, and environments that need to be refreshed and enhanced.  As discussed before, many of these come directly from our users via the Inventor Ideas page. We do not just look to change something for change sake, or to pretty something up just to move an […]

Engineering models often carry a high degree of geometric detail since they’re used for manufacturing and production purposes. While this creates a very accurate representation of the design, there are several reasons why it’s sometimes useful to simplify models: Reduce large assembly complexity for better performance Remove proprietary information before sharing designs externally Simplify models […]