Professional-grade 3D CAD software for product design and engineering

Work with a complete set of design and engineering tools

Inventor® CAD software provides professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools. Work efficiently with a powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities.

Share timely feedback with built-in collaboration tools

  • Work with anyone, anywhere no matter what CAD software they use.
  • Use cloud-based design reviews to collect feedback from key stakeholders wherever they are.
  • Follow the entire product development lifecycle with one data model.

Satisfy demands for custom products and automated processes

  • Enable rapid assembly reconfigurations powered by iLogic.
  • Design efficiently using specialized tools for sheet metal and frame design.
  • Choose standard components from a customizable content library for bolted connections, gears, cams, and more.

Features

Product design

Shape Generator

Create and evaluate high-performing design options in minutes.

Parametric modeling

Focus on design as you create and edit your 3D models with an intuitive user interface.

Assembly modeling

See how your design will go together and perform at the assembly level.

Drawing creation

Quickly create clear, accurate, detailed drawings for manufacturing.

Collaboration and design automation

Shared view collaboration

Collaborate on your models or designs online. Anyone can review and comment on shared views in the Autodesk viewer.

Work with non-native data

Maintain an associative link to non-native CAD data.

Automated frame design

Quickly design and test structural frames.

Design automation

Enable rapid assembly reconfigurations powered by iLogic.

Modeling

Sheet metal

Design and prepare complex sheet metal products for manufacturing.

Model-based definition

Include manufacturing information in your 3D model for downstream applications.

Content center

Choose your standard components from a comprehensive customizable library.

BIM interoperability

Convert configurable 3D CAD models into BIM objects.

Flexible modeling

Use the right modeling tool for every job with parametric, freeform, and direct modeling tools.

Direct modeling

Use easy push/pull controls to move, rotate, resize, or scale features from imported geometries.

Freeform modeling

Freely sculpt the shape of your design by moving points, edges, and faces.

Mechanical concept and layout design

Open DWG™ files directly inside Inventor as the basis for your 3D model.

Plastic parts design

Design and analyze plastic parts with purpose-built tools in Inventor.

Component generators and calculators

Use built-in calculators to inform the design of common joints such as welds, clamps, and press fits.

Tube and pipe design

Use a combination of automated tools and full-control design functions in Inventor to build tube and pipe runs.

Connected Data

Printed circuit board interoperability

Integrate your electronics and mechanical designs into a single, complete definition of your product.

Data management

Robust search function makes it easy to find files and quickly copy design files. Connects to Vault (included in Product Design & Manufacturing Collection).

Simulation and visualization

Exploded views and animations

Use exploded views and animations of complex assemblies in product documentation, manuals, and assembly instructions.

Dynamic simulation

Apply forces to evaluate the motion, speed, and acceleration of your design.

Stress analysis

Run quick checks on parts or perform in-depth analysis of the entire product at any stage.

Visualization and rendering

Show how your product will look with visualization and rendering tools.

System requirements for Autodesk Inventor 2020

System Requirements for Autodesk Inventor 2020 Windows

Operating System64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 Semi-Annual Channel
64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 with Update KB4019990 and Internet Explorer® 10 or later
CPU ¹Recommended: 3.0 GHz or greater, 4 or more cores
Minimum: 2.5 GHz or greater
MemoryRecommended: 20 GB RAM or more
Minimum: 8 GB RAM for less than 500-part assemblies
Disk SpaceInstaller plus full installation: 40 GB
GraphicsRecommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Minimum: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
See the Certified Hardware
Display ResolutionRecommended: 3840 x 2160 (4K); Preferred scaling: 100%, 125%, 150% or 200%
Minimum: 1280 x 1024
Pointing DeviceMS-Mouse compliant (3DConnexion 3D Mouse optional)
Productivity: 3DConnexion SpaceMouse®, driver version 10.5.12 or later
NetworkInternet connection for web install with Autodesk® Desktop App, Autodesk® collaboration functionality, web downloads, and licensing.
Network license manager supports Windows Server® 2016, 2012, 2012 R2, 2008 R2 and the operating systems listed above.
SpreadsheetFull local install of Microsoft® Excel 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 for iFeatures, iParts, iAssemblies, Global BOM, Parts Lists, Revision Tables, spreadsheet-driven designs and Studio animation of Positional Representations.
64-bit Microsoft Office is required to export Access 2007, dBase IV, Text and CSV formats.
Office 365 subscribers must ensure they have a local installation of Microsoft Excel 2016.
Windows Excel Starter®, OpenOffice®, and browser-based Office 365 applications are not supported.
BrowserGoogle Chrome™ or equivalent
.NET Framework.NET Framework Version 4.7 or later. Windows Updates enabled for installation.

For Complex Models, Complex Mold Assemblies, and Large Assemblies (typically more than 1,000 parts)

CPU Type ¹Recommended: 3.30 GHz or greater, 4 or more cores
MemoryRecommended: 24 GB RAM or greater
GraphicsRecommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
See the Certified Hardware

Notes:

  1. Autodesk® Inventor® is optimized to take advantage of the SSE2 extended instruction sets supported on Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, and AMD Opteron processors. Inventor 2020 will not install on computers that do not support SSE2. Several utilities are available on the Internet that report CPUID including supported instructions sets.
  2. Autodesk recommends settings which allow Microsoft Windows to manage virtual memory as needed. There should always be at least twice as much free hard disk space as system memory (RAM).

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