

Accelerate mechanical engineering design and enable engineers to focus on design intent with rules-based design and automation tools.The relationship between Alias and Inventor can reduce time to market, enabling engineers to start detailed designs earlier and mechanical engineers to easily incorporate changes from the industrial design team. Get maximum flexibility by combining native Inventor geometry with exterior surface models designed with Alias industrial design software.Move your initial design studies from paper by using the parametric design environment to develop initial concept sketches and kinematic models, and rapidly investigate multiple design concepts. Design accelerators offer the fastest way to add the remaining components, such as drive mechanisms, fasteners, steel frames, and hydraulic systems.Dynamic sketch blocks enable you to evaluate concepts and convert sketches into a fully constrained 3D assembly model to form a 3D digital prototype.Quickly assemble individual parts and subassemblies to define the complete product structure. Accurately validate interference and mass properties to help produce quality products the first time.Combine design accelerators with assembly tools to be sure that every part and component in an assembly design fits correctly. Define position and describe part motion in one step. Control data for large assembly designs to work on the components for just part of the design.Inventor combines manufacturing information-such as punch tool parameters and custom bend tables-with an accurate 3D model of sheet metal folding.Simplify sheet metal design and complex mechanical part design, and improve your productivity with Digital Prototyping.The enhanced search capability now provides results for commands, help articles, support content, blogs, and discussion groups, as well as YouTube posts, with a single click.Tutorials enable new users to experience a complete workflow from beginning to end and track their learning progress. Interactive tutorials teach the basics of sketches and parts, assemblies, and drawings.Customize the new Inventor Home to easily access common tasks.Sketch constraints-related settings have also been reorganized into a single Constraint Settings command. You gain greater control over constraints with improved display, inference, and delete options. With the new Relax Mode you can modify geometries that are already constrained. Get your sketches in shape faster and more easily with new constraint tools and settings.Sketch constraint control (enhanced) New.

Then use the freeform edit tools to adjust the shape. Start with a freeform shape that best represents the desired geometry (box, sphere, cylinder, torus, or quadball). These tools provide an alternate modeling approach to explore and create freeform shaped models using direct manipulation. Model organic shapes and incorporate freeform and parametric workflows into a single model.
