What's New in Autodesk Inventor 2014

The focus for this Inventor release is to increase productivity for both new and long-time users in the area of assembly design. We also included productivity improvements for parts, sketching, drawing, and other environments based on long-time customer requests. Finally, we added tools that help you share Inventor models more broadly with your partners. This addition streamlines the sharing of models with building engineers and architects making it even easier to collaborate through Autodesk 360 services.

Customer Productivity

Workflow Interoperability Connected Experience
  • Ease of Assembly
  • Large Assembly Performance
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • BIM Ready Models
  • Model Based Definition
  • Consistent Materials
  • Integrated Autodesk 360 Experience
  • Application Virtualization

The following is a brief outline of these tools and capabilities.

Greater Productivity

A new command called Connect transforms the assembly design process. Connect provides a one-step method of positioning components and defining motion.

If you are new to the product, it is easy to understand and master assembly behavior. If you already know the product, the streamlined assembly creation and management tools provide an engaging and productive experience.

Other productivity enhancements that we hope will delight you are:
  • A new method of working with very large assemblies called Express mode loads assemblies five to ten times faster, greatly improving the time to work.
  • New assembly diagnostic tools allow you to quickly understand and correct relationship errors for both constraints and connections.
  • Assembly copy/paste functionality produces an identical copy with orientations and relationships intact.
  • Improvements to the modeling core allow greater success in complex blends and sweeps.
  • A new slot sketching tool dramatically reduces the time required to create obrounds and curved slots.

Enhanced Workflow Interoperability

Multiple Consistent Material workflows have been streamlined to make it easier to create custom libraries. Custom libraries can be shared between Inventor, Revit, and AutoCAD.

We also added tools that help you share Inventor models more broadly with your partners. With the new BIM interoperability features, you can transform detailed Inventor assemblies easily into simple native Revit Families for use as BIM content.

This addition streamlines the sharing of models with building engineers and architects making it even easier to collaborate through Autodesk 360 services.

Connected Experience

Finally, stay tuned for these enhancements: R2014 provides a simple, intuitive process to save files to, and open from Autodesk 360. You benefit by having access to your data, anytime, anywhere, and the ability to share anytime and with anyone. Get confirmation on designs, troubleshoot field maintenance, and resolve design sharing issues with Autodesk 360.

Keep reading for the details on these and all the other great enhancements