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Autodesk has various fabrication software products for manufacturing, architectural construction, HVAC and structural steel applications

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Product types and features

Machining

Connect machines to design data

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Services
Training, setup, CNC posts, deployment, programming, etc.

Workflows

Workflows between products and systems

Systems

Data management, automation, collaboration, erp/crm, IoT and commerce systems

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Training, setup, CNC posts, deployment, programming, etc.
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Data management, automation, collaboration, erp/crm, IoT and commerce systems

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Autodesk fabrication products range from HVAC systems, structural steel, mechanical to architectural design

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Structural steel detailing and fabrication tool built on AutoCAD.

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Complete toolset for Fabrication in Construction. Combine Advance Steel, CADmep, Revit, Point Layout, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Navisworks and more

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Create fabrication-intent models of piping, plumbing and ductwork systems.

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Optimise and automate nesting with the Nesting & Fabrication Extension. Create optimised and associative multi-sheet layouts for cutting on CNC machines.

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Professional-grade 3D mechanical, sheet metal design and frame design, documentation, and product simulation tools.

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The first 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB tool of its kind, connecting your entire product development process into one cloud-based software with sheet metal design tools.

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Combine Inventor Professional, Inventor CAM, Inventor Nesting, Nastran, Factory Design Utilities, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Navisworks plus more in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

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Machining

Autodesk offer the following solutions for connecting designs to CAM/CNC, plasma/laser cutters and beam line machines.

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Structural steel detailing and fabrication tool built on AutoCAD. Produce DXF's for flat patterns and NC1 code for beam line machines.

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Import designs from CADmep, create flat patterns and prepare designs for machining

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Setup and generate CNC posts for 2.5 and 3 axis machining and simulate toolpaths.

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Setup and generate CNC posts for 2.5 and 3 axis machining and simulate toolpaths. Add the Nesting and Fabrication extension to nest sheet metal parts and generate toolpaths for plasma and laser cutting machines.

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Setup and optimise nest tables and export to DXF

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Get 5-axis integrated CAD/CAM with Inventor CAM in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection 

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Combine Inventor Professional, Inventor CAM, Inventor Nesting, Nastran, Factory Design Utilities, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Navisworks plus more in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

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Professional-grade 3D mechanical, sheet metal design and frame design, documentation, and product simulation tools.

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Autodesk Fabrication CADmep gives you the ability to create fabrication-intent models of piping, plumbing and ductwork systems. Connect CADmep with ESTmep, CADduct and Revit for complete end to end workflows.
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Import designs from CADmep, create flat patterns and prepare designs for machining

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Import designs from Revit and export estimating data to CADmep and CAMduct

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Use Revit software to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation for architectural, mep and structural construction projects

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Autodesk Point Layout brings BIM coordinate systems to the jobsite. Connect building models to field construction workflows, with hardware compatibility including Leica, Topcon, Trimble, and more.

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Fabrication CAMduct

Create fabrication-intent models of piping, plumbing and ductwork systems.
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Import designs from CADmep, create flat patterns and prepare designs for machining

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Import designs from Revit,  costing from ESTmep and send designs over to CAMduct to create flat patterns and prepare designs for machining

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Import designs from Revit and export estimating data to CADmep and CAMduct

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Use Revit software to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation for architectural, mep and structural construction projects

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Autodesk Point Layout brings BIM coordinate systems to the jobsite. Connect building models to field construction workflows, with hardware compatibility including Leica, Topcon, Trimble, and more.

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Fabrication ESTmep

Gain insight into project costs with cost analysis and reporting and generate competitive
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Gain insight into project costs with cost analysis and reporting and generate competitive bids.

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Import designs from CADmep, create flat patterns and prepare designs for machining

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Import designs from Revit and ESTmep and send designs to CAMduct for manufacturing

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Use Revit software to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation for architectural, mep and structural construction projects

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Advance Steel structural steel fabrication, design and detailing software

Advance Steel

Steel detailing software that features a library of intelligent parametric elements, steel connections and plates for steel detailing and fabrication.
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Steel detailing software features a library of intelligent parametric elements, steel connections and plates for steel detailing and fabrication.

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Use Revit software to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation for architectural, mep and structural construction projects

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Combine Advance Steel and CADmep with Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Docs, Point Layout and more.
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Document Management and Collaboration for Construction Projects

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Get Advance Steel, CADmep, Revit, Point Layout, Navisworks, AutoCAD, Robot Structural Analysis and more.

AEC Collection Page

Structural load analysis software that verifies code compliance and uses BIM-integrated workflows to exchange data with Revit and Advance Steel.

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Use Revit software to produce consistent, co-ordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation for architectural, mep and structural construction projects

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Steel detailing software features a library of intelligent parametric elements, steel connections and plates for steel detailing and fabrication.

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Import designs from Revit and ESTmep and send designs to CAMduct for manufacturing

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Autodesk Point Layout brings BIM coordinate systems to the jobsite. Connect building models to field construction workflows, with hardware compatibility including Leica, Topcon, Trimble, and more.

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Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

Combine Inventor Professional, Inventor CAM, Inventor Nesting, Nastran, Fusion 360 with AutoCAD, Navisworks and more.
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Get Inventor Pro, CAM, Nesting, Nastran, Fusion 360, AutoCAD Mechanical, Electrical, Navisworks and more.

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Non-Linear FEA, thermal and Dynamic Simulation

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3D CAD, sheet metal tools, 2.5/3 axis CAM. Synch Fusion 360 and Inventor Models with AnyCAD.

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3D CAD with sheet metal and frame tools with linear and dynamic simulation. Synch 3D Fusion 360 models with  AnyCAD. Integrated CAM and Nesting in the PDM Collection.

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Optimise Nesting jobs, work with dwg, dxf or Inventor files in the PDM Collection.

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5-axis Integrated CAM and simulate toolpaths with Inventor Professional in the PDM Collection.

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Autodesk Inventor Professional 3D mechanical CAD software

Inventor Professional

3D CAD product, mechanical and fabrication design analysis and 2D detailing software
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3D CAD with sheet metal and frame tools with linear and dynamic simulation. Synch 3D Fusion 360 models with  AnyCAD. Integrated CAM and Nesting in the PDM Collection.

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Non-Linear FEA, thermal and Dynamic Simulation

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3D CAD, sheet metal tools, 2.5/3 axis CAM. Synch Fusion 360 and Inventor Models with AnyCAD.

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Get Inventor Pro, CAM, Nesting, Nastran, Fusion 360, AutoCAD Mechanical, Electrical, Navisworks and more.

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Optimise Nesting jobs, work with dwg, dxf or Inventor files in the PDM Collection.

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5-axis Integrated CAM and simulate toolpaths with Inventor Professional in the PDM Collection.

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Fusion 360

3D CAD/CAM product, mechanical and sheet metal design and 2D detailing software with extensions for fabrication, machining, simulation and generative design.
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3D CAD, sheet metal tools, 2.5/3 axis CAM. Synch Fusion 360 and Inventor Models with AnyCAD. Add Extensions for further functionality.

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Optimise and analyse designs for 3D printing

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Non-Linear FEA, thermal and Dynamic Simulation

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Optimise products with generative design and analysis tools.

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3D CAD with sheet metal and frame tools with linear and dynamic simulation. Synch 3D Fusion 360 models with  AnyCAD. Integrated CAM and Nesting in the PDM Collection.

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Get Inventor Pro, CAM, Nesting, Nastran, Fusion 360, AutoCAD Mechanical, Electrical, Navisworks and more.

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5-axis Integrated CAM and simulate toolpaths.

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Optimise Nesting jobs, create toolpaths for plasma/laser cutters, work with dwg, dxf or Fusion 360 files.

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Heat transfer, drop test, advanced material models, linear statics, bolt connectors, CFD interoperability, response spectrum analysis,  structural analysis, linear buckling, static fatigue, surface contact.

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Get Inventor Pro for linear FEA and Nastran for Non-Linear FEA, thermal and dynamic simulation

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Linear FEA, motion analysis and dynamic simulation.

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Explore structural, thermal and explicit simulation tools, including injection moulding, for manufacturing insights.

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Structural load analysis software that verifies code compliance and uses BIM-integrated workflows to exchange data with Revit and Advance Steel.

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Get Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, Revit and more.

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CAD software for HVAC, piping, tubing, sheet metal, structural steel, product and mechanical design 

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Use estimating software for mep, run scripts in Inventor Professional to calculate cost or get an Autodesk Industry Collection and use Navisworks for 2D/3D Quantity Takeoffs

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From HVAC, to NC1 for beamline machines, to 5-axis CAM post to Nesting toolpaths of exports to DXF

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Data management, collaboration, construction management, product or layout configurators and CRM/ERP can all be connected to design, machining, estimating and simulation software.

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Get training, custom scripts or applications, templates, content, systems deployed or connected.

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Structural load analysis and  mechanical design and motion analysis software

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BIM Software and systems to connect models, drawings and metadata.

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Systems

Systems connect files, information, departments and people and increase productivity by creating end to end workflows between departments, automating processes, reduce double data entry and provide holistic visibility on data and projects.
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Vault manages versions, revisions, lifecycles with automated reference management, file numbering schemes and tools to speed up file and folder management.

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Customer Relationship and Enterprise Resource Management software to manage records of company, contacts, quotes, inventory, costs, and projects with tools for sales, marketing and operations.

CRM/ERP Page

Cloud file sharing platform with low-latency for synching large datasets between people.

Egnyte

Connect product and layout configurators to your website, CRM/ERP or data management systems.

Visualisation Page

PDF Collaboration, mark-up, measure and quantity take off for 2D and 3D PDF's with add-ins for AutoCAD and Revit.

Bluebeam Page

Construction management software for mark-up, measure, RFI's, issues, compare, bids, costing, take-offs and more.

Construction Cloud Page

File and metadata automation, analytics and access system for Revit and AutoCAD-based projects such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D Advance Steel and CADmep/ESTmep/CAMduct with the ability to connect to construction management systems such as Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360, ProjectWise, ProCore and cloud sharing platforms such as Egnyte, SharePoint, Dropbox, Google Drive and more.

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Services

Design Consulting provides a range of services for Autodesk Fabrication products such as CNC posts for CAMduct, Inventor CAM and Fusion 360, drawing templates, content creation, training, system deployments, programming and more.
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Drawing and model templates and content creation (Duct & piping libraries, structural steel libraries and connections, Content Center libraries and Revit Families), drawing styles and standards and sheet metal templates.

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CNC posts and toolpaths to connect design to machines for CAMduct, Inventor CAM, Fusion 360 and Fusion 360 Nesting Extension

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LISP routines, AutoCAD scripts, Inventor iLogic scripts, Revit macros, Dynamo scripts PyRevit scripts and custom integrations and applications.

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Structured or customised training courses.

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  • Use Inventor Nesting to optimise nest table and export Nesting to DXF or CAM for Machining.
  • Associative design with integrated Nesting and CAM reduces rework and errors.
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What’s New in Inventor 2022

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What's New in Inventor 2022

Inventor 2022’s focus has been on managing parts and assemblies through model states, further enhancements to Inventor/Revit interoperability, Fusion 360 interoperability, productivity and performance.

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  • Model States – Parts: Manage manufacturing operations, dimensional variations, and simplified representations all on one part file.
  • Model States – Assemblies: Create multiple representations of an assembly within a single document to manage various assembly configurations and model simplification.
  • Revit Interoperability: Collaborate on BIM projects with improved tools to simplify and save native Revit project files in Inventor.
  • Productivity and Performance: See increased performance when editing large assemblies and improved productivity in features you use often.
  • Installation and Deployment: Get everyone on your team onto the latest release with a new installation and deployment experience.
  • Drawings: Use the camera views, manufacturing information, and lighting style from your 3D model in your 2D drawing views.
  • Installation and Deployment: Get everyone on your team onto the latest release with a new installation and deployment experience.

Model States - Parts and Assemblies

The new model states workflow enables users to create multiple presentations of a part or assembly within a single document, producing model state variations with different parameters, components, properties or simplification.

Model states are particularly useful for manufacturing processes, families of parts or sheet metal fold operations.

Model states can be used for the following:

  • Machining operations from the casted model to the final part
  • Sheet metal stages for multiple bend operations
  • Weldments for weld preparation and other machining operations
  • Product families that have different values for dimensions or features that are shown or suppressed
  • Alternative assembly positions to quickly switch between them visually or used for drawing views
  • Level of completion for each stage as your design gets assembled
  • Simplification levels for removing intellectual property or high levels of detail before export
  • iProperty information

Model states in assemblies can be used for configurations, weldment preparation or alternate positions.

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Model States - Parts and Assemblies

The new model states workflow enables users to create multiple presentations of a part or assembly within a single document, producing model state variations with different parameters, components, properties or simplification.

Model states are particularly useful for manufacturing processes, families of parts or sheet metal fold operations.

Model states can be used for the following:

  • Machining operations from the casted model to the final part
  • Sheet metal stages for multiple bend operations
  • Weldments for weld preparation and other machining operations
  • Product families that have different values for dimensions or features that are shown or suppressed
  • Alternative assembly positions to quickly switch between them visually or used for drawing views
  • Level of completion for each stage as your design gets assembled
  • Simplification levels for removing intellectual property or high levels of detail before export
  • iProperty information

Model states in assemblies can be used for configurations, weldment preparation or alternate positions.

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Assemblies - Instance Properties

Instance properties enables you to assign properties to individual component instances.

Assigned properties are stored in the parent assembly. 

Unlike iProperties, Instance Properties don’t affect the referenced component files. Instance Properties are assigned to individual component instances only and can override custom iProperties.

Instance Properties are available in annotations such as balloons, leader notes and parts lists.

Simplification Improvements

The new simplification command provides:

  • IP removal prior to export
  • All settings are moved to the property panel
  • Built-in presets
  • Integrated Inventor to Revit workflow

This new command replaces both the shrinkwrap and shrinkwrap substitute commands.

Interoperability - Inventor + Revit

2022 allow users for the first time to export Inventor models to the Revit rvt project file format.

The simplification tool gives users the ability to select only the components and features that are required for export into Revit.

A Revit Exports browser folder is placed in the Inventor model browser. It is populated with a node for the exported model.  As long as the model is maintained in the specified path, you can edit, preview, open in Revit or an associated application, or update the RVT model.

Interoperability - Inventor + Fusion 360

In addition to Revit interoperability, the new Inventor 2022 release includes a ‘Send to Fusion’ button making it easier to send data to Fusion 360 and Fusion Team.

Upon selection of the Send to Fusion 360 command, files will automatically get uploaded to your Fusion Team account.

In Fusion, you can make edits to your model geometry without changing the part in Inventor, this ideal when you need to prepare a part for CNC machining, 3D printing, or generative design.

 

Interoperability - Additional Workflows

Autodesk has also added QIF 3.0 support for PMI data and via the TAsk Scheduler, JT Export.

Productivity and Performance

The Autodesk Inventor team has continued to focus or Model, Drawing and Graphic Performance.

Parts, assemblies, drawings have all been enhanced year after year to deliver an efficient experience for everyone who works on complex parts and very large assemblies.

For those who enjoy editing parts while working in the assembly environment, you will find several performance improvements while editing sketches and visibility improvements.  GPU’s are now better utilised for visual styles like displaying wireframe and silhouette edges and opening and closing documents is faster than ever.

Productivity - User Interface

Fillets and Property Palette

The fillet command has been moved to the property panel and these panels can be docked anywhere on your screen.

Assembly Constraints

New options allow users to visualise what is under constrained.

There’s a status filter which you can select to show the constraint state in the browser.

Measure Command

The new installer and online deployment builder, making it simpler to configure and launch.

Tube and Pipe

Angle attribute is now exported when saving one or multiple runs to ISOGEN .pcf files .

iLogic support for Model State

iLogic is expanded to support the following Model State workflows:

  • ThisDoc.Document support for Model State In a component occurrence of a model state document, the existing ThisDoc.Document property returns the member document.
    • The ThisDoc.Document property is expanded to support returning the member document when running in a component occurrence of a model state document.
    • The new ThisDoc.FactoryDocument property returns the factory document when running either in a top-level document or in an assembly component. In a component occurrence document, this returns the associated factory document. In a top-level document, this returns the same object as ThisDoc.Document.
    • In a drawing, the new ThisDrawing.ModelFactoryDocument property returns the factory document for the first model view (or nothing if there is no model view).
    • In a drawing view, the new ICadDrawingView.ModelFactoryDocument property returns the factory document for that view (or nothing if it is not a model view).
  • There is a new event called Model State Activated now available in the Event Triggers dialog box. This trigger occurs when a model state is activated. Use this trigger to run a rule in the document in which the event occurred.
  • New function lets you add a component in a specified model state

    A new function called AddWithModelState is now available on the Components object (IManagedComponents interface). This function adds a managed occurrence of a part or subassembly.

    Note: Capture Current State on an existing component that includes a model state, in turn creates code that includes AddWithModelState.
  • iLogic edit-in-place and model states

    There are some restrictions on what you can do with iLogic rules when you are editing a model state component in place. In a model state, when a component member file is being in-place edited within an assembly:

    • You can edit, run, and suppress rules.
    • You can’t add or delete rules.

    There is no change to edit-in-place support for components that aren’t model state components: You can add an iLogic rule:

    • From the top level document.
    • At the sub-component level in the in-place-edit environment.
  • Instructions to Modify an Occurrence Parameter with a Model State

    Access the steps here: To Modify an Occurrence Parameter with a Model State.

  • Use the new Instance property snippets to read and create Instance Properties.
  • There is a new event named Any User Parameter Change in the Event Triggers dialog box. This event is triggered when you change the value of a User parameter.

Dark Theme

The Dark Theme that was introduced in the 2021 release has been fully implemented in 2022, including in the iLogic Rule Editor

Drawings

You can now change the look of shaded views in Drawings by changing  the lighting style.

There are new drawing view options available to repurpose the camera views and 3D annotations created in the 3D model.Centerlines and center marks with extended lines now break when intersecting with dimensions, making it easier to read the dimension value.

Installation and Deployment

The measure command is updated to use a property panel style and has Done and Retry buttons to improve workflow and productivity. Measure in an assembly has a tool palette for quick access to selection filtering and a loop modifier.

You can now create a deployment that includes your customized settings in the iLogic Configuration dialog box.

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Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection is a complete set of tools for the design, analysis, visualisation, documentation and manufacturing of products for manufacturing, industrial design, fabrication and defence.
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Professional grade electromechanical 3D CAD software that can design products, plastics, sheet metal, weldments, automate, simulate, produce bills of materials, 2D fabrication level detailing and documentation.
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Overview

What is the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection?

Compare

Compare the PDM Collection to Inventor Professional and Inventor LT.

Included Software

See what software is included in the PDM Industry Collection.

Add-ons

Programs and plug-ins to boost productivity.

Blog

Learn about products, workflows and related products.

PDM Collection Overview

The Autodesk PDM Industry Collection is a compilation of software titles for the manufacturing industry which gives the ability to 3D model, design, automate, visualise, animate, simulate, document and draft designs in 2D.

  • Create high-tolerance, fabrication level detailed designs for electromechanical products and fabricated structures.

  • Optimise designs with analysis, generative design, visualisation and simulation tools.

  • End to end CAD/CAM digital prototyping solution.

Integrated CAD/CAM and Nesting

The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection comes with Inventor CAM and Inventor Nesting, being one of the few, if only product set in the market with the exceptional 3D CAD modelling and detailing features of Inventor with integrated 2.5 to 5 axis CAM and Nesting..

Inventor and AutoCAD Workflows

Use the right tool for the right job. Reference AutoCAD 2D CAD data into Inventor designs and drawings and detail Inventor models in AutoCAD.

Inventor and Fusion Workflows

Use Fusion 360 generative design studies to explore design alternatives and optimise product preformance or cost.

Inventor and Revit Workflows

Reference Revit projects and use Inventor BIM interoperability tools to publish BIM data to Revit and other sources.

Included Software

The most comprehensive selection of cutting-edge BIM and CAD design, visualisation and analysis software and cloud tools comes within the AEC Collection.

Inventor Professional

Tools for parts and assembly modelling, automation, sheet metal, weldments, electrical, tube & pipe, bills of materials and 2D detailing.

Fusion 360

Cloud based CAD/CAM for PC and Mac with simulation and PCB design.

Inventor Tolerance Analysis

Analyse tolerances and the impact of variations in dimensions.

AutoCAD

2D/3D design and drafting software with specialised toolsets for mechanical, electrical schematics, plant design, GIS and more.

Inventor Nesting

Integrated parametric nesting software for Inventor Professional.

Navisworks Manage

Project coordination, data aggregation, 5D scheduling, quantification, simulation and visualisation software.

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5 to 5 axis CAM for Inventor Professional with automation and simulation.

Recap Pro

Reality capture, photogrammetry and 3D scanning point cloud software.

Inventor Nastran

Non-Linear FEA integrated into Inventor Professional.

Factory Design Utilities

Process analysis and 2D/3D layout tools for AutoCAD, Inventor Professional and Navisworks.

HSM Works

Integrated 2.5 to 5 axis CAM for Solidworks.

3ds Max

3D modelling, rendering, animation and simulation software.

Autodesk Rendering

Cloud based rendering for Revit, 3ds Max, Navisworks and AutoCAD.

Autodesk Drive

Cloud storage and collaboration for CAD.

Compare

Compare the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection to other products such as Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Inventor LT suite and Inventor Professional LT.

  • PDM Collection
  • Inventor Professional
  • AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite
  • Inventor LT
PDM CollectionInventor ProfessionalAutoCAD Inventor LT SuiteInventor LT
3D Parametric Part Modelling
B-REP surfacing, solid body and multi-body part modelling
Direct Editing
Direct editing (push-pull) part modelling environment
Freeform Modelling
NURBS with T-Splines part modelling environment
Plastic Part Design
Mold and die modelling environment
Local Rendering
Ray-trace rendering on your PC
2D Design
2D design functionality in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT
2D Drafting
2D views, annotations, leaders, etc.
3D Parametric Assembly Modelling
Place multiple parts in an assembly file and use constraints and joints to assemble
Weldments
Weldment assembly environment used with frame generator to model structural frames
Sheet Metal Modelling
Tools for sheet metal design, flat patterns and 2D symbols and annotations
Electrical Cable and Harnessing
Tools tools to route electrical cables, harnesses and detail nailboards
Electrical Schematics
Design electrical control systems and switchboards with reports such as from/to and wire lists
EMX Project
Synch between AutoCAD Electrical schematicsand Inventor Professional cable harnesses
Tube and Piping
Tools to design flexible hose, tubes and pipes
Design Automation
Simplified code and forms to automate 3D model, drawings and connect to Excel
Content Centre Library
Customisable library of parts such as steel profiles and fasteners
Draft Analysis
Analyse drafts
Clash and interference detection
Detect clashes or interferences between parts in assemblies
Material cost/impact
Ability to select a material based on the environmental/cost impact
BIM Interoperability
Prepare models and export to RFA, adsk or IFC
Point Clouds
Import point clouds via Recap
Point Cloud Pre-Processing
Tools found in Recap Pro
Bill of Materials
Create bills of materials and tabvles from parts and assemblies
AnyCAD
Associative import of CAD parts and assembly files
Application Programming Interface (API)
Install plug-ins, create plug-ins, macros and run Dynamo scripts
Linear FEA
Linear and Dynamic FEA simulation studies
Non-Linear FEA
FEA tools in Inventor Nastran
CAM
Features found in Inventor CAM and HSMWorks
Nesting
Nesting tools in Inventor Nesting
Tolerance Analysis
Features found in Inventor Tolerance Analysis
Architecture Design
Features found in AutoCAD specialised toolsets
GIS Mapping
Features found in AutoCAD specialised toolsets
Raster Tools
Features found in AutoCAD specialised toolsets
Plant Design
Features found in AutoCAD specialised toolsets
P&ID Schematics
Features found in AutoCAD specialised toolsets
Clash Detection
Features found in Navisworks Manage
5D Scheduling
Features found in Navisworks Manage
Project Review and Coordination
Features found in Navisworks Manage
Production Rendering and Animation
Features found in 3ds Max
Process Analysis
Bottleneck simulation and reporting for factory and assembly line layouts
Synch AutoCAD and Inventor Professional
2D/3D Factory Assets to synch AutoCAD 2D layouts with Inventor Professional 3D models

PDM Collection Add-Ons

Check out these programs and plug-ins to boost productivity even further.
Enterprise data management.
Additive manufacturing simulation and optimisation.
Cloud Collaboration with Fusion 360 Team Participant
Machine tool probing software for on machine verification and inspection.
Computational Fluid Dynamic software to simulate loads, air and fluid flows.
Injection mold simulation software

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