Digital Prototyping

Gives you the ability to create and explore a complete product before it is built. Inventor software makes it easy for AutoCAD® software users to realise the benefits of Digital Prototyping by enabling them to integrate 2D AutoCAD drawings and 3D data into a singledigital model. This single digital model creates a virtual representation of the final product that helps engineers to better design, visualise and simulate their product with less reliance on costly physical prototypes, thereby improving time to market and increasing competitive advantage.

3D Mechanical Design

Design better products using 3D. Inventor software offers a wide range of tools to simplify the transition to 3D design for AutoCAD software users and get them productive immediately. Break throughs in both assembly design and part modelling offer dramatically easier to use, easier to learn design tools. Intuitive AutoCAD-style sketching and direct manipulation modelling offer an uninterrupted workflow for exploring and evaluating concepts quickly. Specialised features accelerate the design of plastic parts and sheet metal. In addition, easy-to-use tools help to guide assembly creation, so that every part and component fits together correctly.

Automatic Drawing Updates and Views

Change it once, change it everywhere. Inventor software associates drawing views to the original components, so a change made to any part or assembly is automatically reflected in all associated drawing sheets. Improve drafting productivity by creating front, side, ISO, detail, section and auxiliary views of parts and assemblies automatically from the model. Annotate drawings quickly by retrieving the dimension information directly from the design. In addition, the digital prototypes you create in Inventor software can be used to generate compelling 3D product documentation – from assembly instructions to operating procedures – quickly, using Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher software.

Design Automation

Autodesk Inventor software features rules-based design and automation tools to accelerate design by automating common tasks, enabling engineers to focus on design intent rather than modelling geometry. Inventor software captures the functional requirements of a design to drive the automatic creation of intelligent components and accelerate design cycles. Fully integrated Inventor iLogic technology can dramatically simplify rules-based design to help any Inventor user – even those with little or no programming experience – to define complex product configurations, increase engineering productivity and optimise designs.

State-of-the-Art Visualisation

Create stunning renderings, animations and presentations quickly and easily to improve communication with your design partners and customers. Autodesk Inventor software provides state-of-the-art visualisation, illustration and animation tools directly in the default workspace, giving you a realistic representation of your design at all times. Dynamic shading, precise lighting control and the included library of high-resolution textures make it easy to create photo-realistic scenes of your final products in actual environments.

Easy-to-Use Simulation

Predict how your designs will work under real-world conditions before they’re built. Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software provides easy-to-use motion simulation and stress analysis tools to help you create better-quality parts and avoid field failures. A comprehensive simulation environment provides support for motion simulation and static and modal finite element analysis (FEA) of parts, assemblies and load-bearing frames. Autodesk Inventor Professional also includes Moldflow® plastic simulation tools to validate the design of injection moulds for plastic parts. Because these tools are tightly integrated with the 3D design software, it’s practical and cost-effective to employ simulation throughout the design process.

Certified Graphics Card

Setting the standard for power efficiency while delivering a rich user experience. Use the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics card, for its ultra fast memory bandwidth, it delivers high throughput for interactive visualisation of large models and high-performance for real time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing.

Adris can supply a number of alternative certified graphic cards available to use with Inventor.
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