More Accessible Than Ever to New and Existing Users 
Autodesk® Inventor® 2013 3D CAD software helps you to go further with more tools and options right at your cursor, including context-sensitive menus and more direct manipulation of your models.

When you start Inventor 2013, the new “Welcome to Inventor” interface helps new users to get up to speed easily and existing users to learn even more about Inventor.

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Productivity Enhancements
Inventor 2013 users will benefit from numerous user-requested enhancements in the creation of parts and assemblies.

Inventor 2013 supports user productivity with powerful new sketch tools like Dynamic Trim/Extend, options such as Arc length dimensioning, and more.

Drawings are one of the most important ways in which manufacturers communicate. Inventor 2013 streamlines many drawing-related tasks.

Inventor 2013 enables you to create detailed views from AutoCAD files, including base, orthographic, section and broken views, and also increases productivity through associative symbols and annotation.

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Expand the Use of Your Inventor Designs
Inventor users can browse, download and purchase more than 30 apps immediately using the new Apps Tab within Inventor. The companion apps help design professionals to find and download solutions to some of their most pressing design challenges.

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Extend the Value of Subscription with Cloud Services
Autodesk® Subscription now gives you a greater advantage with Autodesk® Cloud capabilities that help you to increase mobility, improve collaboration and optimise your designs, advancing the way you work.

Extend ideation and simulation beyond the desktop by testing the performance of multiple product design options with the Autodesk® Inventor® Optimisation service, powered by Autodesk Cloud. This capability makes it easy to create higher-quality products and more sustainable designs that lower costs.

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Sheet Metal Part Design
Simplify the design of complex sheet metal parts and improve your productivity with Digital Prototyping. Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical engineering software combines manufacturing information, such as punch-tool parameters and custom bend tables, with an accurate 3D model of sheet metal folding. Manufacturing engineers can also use the flat-pattern editing environment to tweak flat patterns to help minimise manufacturing costs.

Sheet metal part design features include:

• Sheet metal styles
• Sheet metal flanges
• Roll-formed parts
• Transitional shapes
• Punch libraries
• Sheet metal fasteners
• Flat-pattern modification
• Sheet metal manufacturing drawings

Assembly Design
Define digital prototypes of large complex assemblies. Autodesk Inventor combines design accelerators with assembly tools so you can be sure that every part and component in an assembly design fits correctly. Validate interference and mass properties accurately to help produce quality products the first time.

Inventor provides the tools to control and manage the data created by large assembly designs, allowing you to work just on the components required to complete a particular part of the design.

Assembly design features include:

• Assembly Snap tool
• Interference analysis and contact detection
• Assembly configurations
• Large assembly performance
• Frame Generator
• Weldments
• Content Centre
• Design Doctor

Layout and System Design
Getting the initial mechanical design concept right is the key to a successful mechanical engineering project. Autodesk Inventor allows you to move your initial design studies from paper by using the parametric design environment to develop initial concept sketches and kinematic models, and to investigate multiple design concepts rapidly.

Dynamic sketch blocks can enable you to evaluate different concepts quickly and convert your sketches into a fully constrained 3D assembly model to form a 3D digital prototype. The Design Accelerators in Autodesk Inventor offer the fastest way to add the remaining components such as drive mechanisms, fasteners, steel frames and hydraulic systems.

Data Management
Autodesk® Vault data management software is a centralised application within Autodesk® Inventor® 3D CAD software that enables teams to store and manage design data and related documents securely. Design workgroups can manage and track all of the design components of a digital prototype more easily, so they can better reuse critical design data, manage bills of materials (BOMs) and collaborate earlier with manufacturing teams and clients.

Design and Manufacturing Documentation
Create and share production-ready DWG™ drawings easily with manufacturing teams and outside suppliers. Inventor 3D CAD software enables you to generate engineering and manufacturing documentation from digital prototypes, helping you to reduce errors and deliver designs in less time. Extending the advantages of AutoCAD® software, Inventor takes digital manufacturing documentation to the next level through automatic generation of drawing views and comprehensive tools for finishing drawings.

With support for all major drawing standards, automated drawing updates and output in true DWG format, Inventor delivers superior data sharing and creation features.

Design and manufacturing documentation features include:

• Direct read and write of the authentic DWG format
• Automatic drawing views
• Automatic drawing updates
• Bill of materials
• Associative parts list

Visualisation Tools
Clear visuals make it easier for stakeholders and customers with no engineering experience to understand engineering drawings and designs. Inventor offers visualisation tools to create photorealistic renderings and animations quickly that help to convey ideas to managers, explain designs to manufacturers and persuade customers that you have the best solution for their needs.

Visualisation features include:

• Realistic renderings and animations
• High-quality visual materials
• Advanced lighting, shading and material properties control
• Visual fidelity across products
• Multiple publishing formats
• DWF™ file mark-up