Autodesk Inventor offers an easy-to-use set of tools for 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation. Digital Prototyping with Inventor helps you design and validate your products before they are built to deliver better products, reduce development costs, and get to market faster.Features Product design and modeling: Shape Generator: You specify the function while Inventor creates the perfect form. Parametric modeling (enhanced): Focus on the design, not the interface. Assembly modeling: Put it all together, in fewer steps. Drawing creation: Quickly create clear and detailed drawings. Flexible modeling: Use freeform, direct, or parametric modeling. Direct modeling: Quickly make edits. Freeform modeling: Take a fluid approach toward modeling. Mechanical concept and layout design: Start with AutoCAD, finish in Inventor. Plastic parts design: Form, fit, function, and manufacturability of plastic parts. Sheet metal design: Design complex sheet metal products. Design automation: Automated product configuration: Product configurators without complex programming. Part and assembly design automation: Automate common part and feature variations. Component generators and calculators: Design more accurately with calculators and component generators. Automated frame design: Quickly design and test structural frames. Interoperability and CAD collaboration: 3D PDF export: Create 3D documentation that anyone can open. Cloud-based 3D design reviews: Share views of your design in the cloud. Work with non-native data (enhanced): Maintain an associative link to non-native CAD data. BIM interoperability (enhanced): Get your products designed-in. Data management: Use a file manager made just for engineers. Simulation and visualization Simulation and visualization: Exploded views and animations: Expose all the parts inside your design. Visualization and rendering: Create photorealistic renderings of your product.