Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order 2012 comes in two variants that are used in different ways:
- Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Series is an authoring environment. Use it to develop, debug, and modify designs and rules for particular applications. It is delivered with a number of tools and documentation (including Inventor and Inventor OEM), which are targeted at Rule developers. With Inventor ETO Series, you can create deployments that contain Intent run-time components, and include Inventor OEM as the host application.
- Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Server is a combination of Intent run-time components with a built-in run-time of Autodesk Inventor.
Inventor ETO Series is required to build Designs and Rules for operation.