Upchain for Inventor

Learn about Upchain for Inventor tool.

What's New: 2022.2

Upchain for Inventor creates an integrated and seamless experience for CAD designers and engineers. Upchain's cloud capabilities shares real-time, CAD-data with team members in Upchain that work outside of Inventor.

To learn more about Upchain for Inventor, see Upchain for Mechanical CAD: Getting Started.

The Upchain Plugin can be embedded in Inventor and managed as an add-in. Click here to learn how to connect it.

Upchain reads the Bill of Materials (BOM) table in Inventor when registering the following CAD structure types in Upchain: Normal, Reference, Purchased, Phantom, and Inseparable. As a part of Upchain’s registration process:

• These CAD structure types are converted into Upchain-specific item types;
• Displayed in the cBOM and eBOM views in the Upchain Plugin for Inventor; and
• Reads eBOM quantities.

After registering the CAD, changes to the BOM table in Inventor, such as the BOM structure-type or the quantity, are updated in Upchain the next time the part or assembly is saved or checked in to Upchain.

Note: Currently, Virtual Components are not supported in Upchain.

To learn more about Upchain, click here.