Inventor OEM Applications

Autodesk Inventor OEM is a development platform that you use to create a stand-alone application built on Autodesk Inventor technology. Instead of writing an application that runs in Inventor, you can package your application with Inventor OEM and deliver it as your application. Your customers need not know that it is based on Inventor. You can include Inventor commands as-is, or create your own commands.

To create a custom application using Inventor OEM, use the Inventor API, and supply your functionality through an add-in.

Note: For 2018/2019 information about building setups for distributing ETO apps, see Updated documentation for deploying ETO app with Inventor OEM 2018 or 2019

Autodesk Inventor OEM is essentially Inventor with a few changes. It is:

• Modular, and uses your installer. You can choose which components to install; part only, part and assembly, or part , assembly, and drawing.
• The branding is configurable. You can define your own application name, splash screen, application icons, executable name, and so on. The exception is the "Powered By Autodesk Inventor" graphic in the zero-document state.
• Independent of Inventor with regards to shared files and registry entries. You can install it on a machine with Inventor or another OEM application.
• Independent of Autodesk licensing. You can control the licensing.

Autodesk Inventor OEM SDK

A typical Inventor OEM development machine has both Inventor and Inventor OEM installed. The Inventor installation delivers the Inventor API SDK, which contains the full API documentation, and samples for Inventor. It includes VBA, which is useful for quickly prototyping concepts. The OEM SDK contains samples and tools specific to configuring your OEM application. It does not duplicate the information available in the Inventor API SDK.