Autodesk Inventor

This is a great program for auto cad to 3D drawings. There are many great tutorials to help learn this program.

Autodesk Inventor is great for any type of machine design. It works very well with creating a combination of custom fabricated parts and purchased pre-designed products. Inventor would not be the right tool if you were trying to design a house or a building. There are a lot of products that would be better suited for that.

I am unable to provide a fair assessment of the support. I have never had to use it.

For smaller, less complex shops like ours, where systems are primarily built from existing building blocks, Autodesk Inventor works well. System integration is relatively straightforward from our library. For intensive product or component development work, Inventor may fall short relative to the more robust engineering tools of a package like CATIA or SOLIDWORKS. Also, if you are sharing a lot of information outside of the company, the Inventor audience is smaller than some of the other CAD packages.

We are working with ImainIT (Rand) as our integrator. They have been very proactive in offering support, and supported each of our integration steps to date. My team does not feel as though they have any question that cannot be addressed during a brief conversation, and we've not encountered any roadblocks to date.

Autodesk Inventor does have a couple of features that I wish our current software suite did. I find the view cube to be very nice to work with. I found that most of the features of Inventor are very similar to another program that is used widely in the industry, and yet they seem to not be as easily managed. For example, parametric modeling is nothing new, but it seems like the Inventor interface does not make it as simple to make adjustments or changes quickly. Also, the way the different features are laid out on the toolbar does not seem as logical to me, but that may just be me. I am not sure I like the idea that many different programs must be installed on your machine in order to use different features that are elsewhere incorporated within other software packages.

I think the support for Autodesk Inventor is very good. The staff at our reseller were very knowledgable and able to walk us through problems pretty easily. The training we received was very good also.
I will say that there were a couple of times we reached out to support with a question or challenge we had, and the support agent was not able to resolve our problem, and after touching base back we found out that there was not a solution for the problems we were experiencing. One of them was just how Inventor represents colors inconsistently at times, all things being equal. Another was that Inventor would not let decals on parts transcend to the assembly level. they just would not show up.

I like the fact when you hover over commands on the toolbar, Autodesk Inventor will show videos on how to go about doing the command. Assembling complicated parts can take some time to figure out the right constraints. A few more options would be nice. The hardest part to customize is the view tab. I don't change a lot but it is easy to forget what I change.

Autodesk does not have the best support, but I always contact the person I buy the license from. They have the greatest support ever, and always help through problems.

Autodesk Inventor has a layout that is easy to get started in and has many ways that advanced users can leverage the software to make intricate designs. They have regularly updated the software to make the tools more robust and easier to run.

There is a huge forum to get answers and Autodesk chimes in with input. There are also many Autodesk supported trainings you can find in local areas to get training on the new versions of the software or to increase your knowledge of the software.

Its integration with AutoCAD and multi-user database management are big plusses for Autodesk Inventor. Allowing users from various departments to have different permissions for viewing and accessing files makes Autodesk Inventor a very powerful product.

Great customer support and online webinars to update on the new changes. 3rd-party app add-ons are abundant for customized tools.

For general design, Autodesk Inventor is a top-tier solution. The solid modeling tools are strong and the 2D documentation tools are second to none. Being from the same company that pioneered AutoCAD, this isn't surprising. The creation of non-engineering documentation like renders and videos leaves something to be desired, though. The render engine is antiquated and the materials system is rather inflexible. For photorealism or high-quality video, look to other tools.

Autodesk support is great, but phone support is hard to come by unless you're using a reseller with independent application engineers. Email support and the public forums are fantastic though.

Out of all of the 3D/2D software I've used in my career, Autodesk Inventor has found the happy middle ground for my 3D CAD needs. It is user-friendly enough to where anyone with 3D CAD software experience can easily pick it up. At the same time, Autodesk is complex enough to allow near limitless imagination to what can be created.

I'm giving the overall support rating a 5 only because I rarely have to use it. Trying to find the answer on the help pages hardly ever helps me because any problem I have is usually too deep for what the help offers. Given the popularity of Autodesk, I have always been able to find an answer online after doing enough looking!

Autodesk Inventor is very appropriate to create 3D mechanical designs, such as the design of automobiles and airplanes. You can design everything you want. I would not recommend Autodesk Inventor to those who want to do architectural designs. In this case, you should use AutoCAD.

They have a support system that had almost all the answers that I needed when I had a problem.

It is well suited when making blueprints or drawings. Also, if modeling in 3D is a must, Inventor does this quite well. The help function is great in that it can explain exactly what each feature does. The Inventor features may be overkill for some people. Some of my co-workers will just use Sketchup for quick changes.

It has a wealth of features and each feature is straight forward. There is a learning curve to this software, but once you get over that, modeling a part is a breeze. You can save in a number of file formats that can be read by other 3D software. Also, Inventor is very friendly when using it to 3D print.

Inventor is a great tool with multiple use cases and suitable for a variety of industries. I've used Autodesk Inventor in a personal capacity designing trailers for a hobby and then as mentioned through this review to design coal washing plants. This shows that Autodesk can be scaled to accommodate a user's design requirements. We've also used standard steel section design as well as sheet metal design which works as expected. Autodesk was the preferred choice of design tool used throughout our Engineering University classes and is more intuitive and user-friendly compared to other design packages I've worked with.

Support for Inventor is great. This is supported by online tutorials and help forums that are actively supported by customer service or support teams. This accelerates the adoption of the service and allows for easy access to new users which can train themselves without the need for a great time or financial investment from the company.

It is working well for us designing engineer to order transformers. It has good library capability, good BOM management, easily models necessary parts and integrates with our ERP. The learning curve to transition from other 3D CAD software is short. Reliability has been good and there is plenty of support available from local vendors.

We have very few problems and when we do experience any they are quickly and effectively dealt with by our local reseller.

Overall, It has allowed us to quickly design structures in 3D from our library, which has saved us time, in addition to an impeccable finish. Showing customers exactly what their final product will look like makes it easy for them to understand.

They have a robust help center and online tutorials as well as phone support. They will help with installation and general product usage guidance.

Inventor is well suited to creating individual detailed parts that are a part of a larger assembly for a model, for example, a car. Where it is less appropriate is for the design of buildings and facilities. Even though it can be used for architectural purposes the detailing and creation of architectural elements are best utilized in other software packages.

Autodesk Inventor is a great software for 3d Modeling in a manufacturing environment. It is great for small assemblies and components. I would not use it for plant layout or extremely large assemblies. It also isn't as flexible for collaboration or cloud sharing of files. It is a good, traditional, controlled modeling software, with a pretty good simulation package.

I've found Inventor well suited to handling large and very large assemblies without crashing. That being said, everything is a bit less easy for me to do than it is in SOLIDWORKS. Some things, like adjustable non-rectilinear or splined 3-dimensional paths drawn in the context of assemblies, I don't know if it could be done in Inventor, at least easily.

Inventor is well suited when you need 3D modeling software that is easy to use. I believe out of the two other Inventor type programs I have used, this is the easiest to learn. This is especially useful if you are bringing people who are not too experienced.

Inventor is less appropriate in scenarios when you need highly detailed 3D models that look realistic. The other 3D programs that I have used have much better looking models, they look much more realistic.

If you are creating detailed models or individual parts this program will get it done. It has the ability to model anything you would manufacture down to the smallest detail. I've often said that I can model my smartphone using Revit and it would look very similar but Autodesk Inventor has the ability to create all of the parts inside my phone which Revit can't do because it can't model with lines that close together. When I model a small part in Revit I can offset lines approximately .010". Any closer the software won't create them. Inventor will draw lines .0001 and maybe even smaller so you can see how small of a model you can design.Our company manufactures custom air handling units and we are progressing to 3D modeling from 2D AutoCAD. I have complete three units using Revit but have issues with the limitation of the spacing of the lines. The units use custom aluminum extrusions between wall panels, at corners and at the roof with specific designs to create a thermal break. Inventor can model these perfectly where I need to compromise using Revit. Inventor using the frame generator can also speed up this process especially when modeling the base. We still need to learn more on using parameters to generate wall geometry spacing extrusions at specific distances.

Autodesk Inventor is a great tool that can be used by almost anyone to create anything. While I will say that it is more suited towards the engineering side of the spectrum, Inventor's seemingly unending capabilities make it suitable for anything. I don't see a reason why you have to be in a certain field at all. You just need a picture in your mind and the willingness to learn the software and you can literally create anything.

Autodesk Inventor is a great tool for students and faculty for engineering areas that don't require great precision or development of more thorough scientific results. Is you are conducting research, or deal with very intricate and complex systems I would recommend a more robust platform that complies more to industry standards.

Autodesk Inventor is well suited for most industrial design environments. It is well suited for those with multi-disciplined design groups. Autodesk has software for about anything a company might be involved in. [It's a] Very diverse software portfolio.

Autodesk Inventor is well-suited for situations where you are creating 3D models of small, simple parts and assemblies. It is hands-down the fastest and most reliable way to get this done. When you are looking for a software that has many advanced features and controls to create an assembly of 20+ parts, you need to look for other software.

Autodesk Inventor is a great CAD solution if you're in need of mechanical designs that require thorough testing and iteration before sending them off to be manufactured. It has a number of components that allow you to create tooling and other features key to successful manufacturing. Although the file structure is sometimes hard to learn, it can be useful in models and assembly files that have hundreds of parts. Autodesk Inventor is not as good as organic shapes and surface modeling, especially for packaging design projects (for that I use Fusion 360). You can now export to a link so you can share your model with others, which is a great addition to this overall CAD package.

It’s well suited for product engineer type managers who are looking to create 3D models for export, components to create tooling, and analyze prototypes