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Autodesk Inventor

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Original author(s)
  
Jacob Sain

Initial release
  
1999

Type
  
Computer-aided design

Developer(s)
  
Autodesk

Operating system
  
Windows

Stable release
  
2017 / March 28, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-03-28)

Autodesk Inventor, developed by U.S. based software company Autodesk, is a computer-aided design application for creating 3D digital prototypes used in the design, visualization and simulation of products. It uses ShapeManager, their proprietary geometric modeling kernel.

Contents

Autodesk Inventor competes directly with SolidWorks and Solid Edge.

Editions

The latest Autodesk Inventor product line includes the following software titles:

  • Autodesk Inventor 2017
  • Autodesk Inventor Professional 2017
  • Autodesk Fusion 360
  • Autodesk Product Design Suite 2017 Premium
  • Autodesk Product Design Suite 2017 Ultimate
  • Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2017 Premium
  • Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2017 Ultimate
  • Autodesk Building Design Suite 2017 Ultimate
  • Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2017 Ultimate

    • Articles and reviews

    Find reviews and articles about Inventor on the Autodesk website.

    The code names of early releases were the names of sports cars and SUVs, because of the love that division vice president Robert "Buzz" Kross has for high-performance vehicles.

    References

    Autodesk Inventor Wikipedia
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