Inventor continues to raise the bar for you to work more productively with your increasingly larger and more complex designs. 
 This release, focus on performance enhancements continues with increased performance in these areas: 
General
 
   
   
  - Application Options - reduced graphic updates during option changes 
		 
	 
 
 
Assembly
 
   
  (Not available in Inventor LT) 
  
 
   
  - Express Mode 
		 
	 
- Design Views 
		 
	 
- Opening an assembly 
		 
	 
- Model Browser - for non-visible components 
		 
	 
- Place Component - for preview and components with a custom design view 
		 
	 
- Assembly Component Patterns 
		 
	 
- Assembly Feature Patterns 
		 
	 
- Rebuild All (Full mode) and Update 
		 
	 
- Free Move and Free Rotate (Full mode), including in-place workflows and assembly patterns 
		 
	 
- Constraint and Joint - preview display 
		 
	 
- Frame Generator 
		 
	 
- Part component visibility changes 
		 
	 
- Edge and face selection when creating constraints 
		 
	 
- Positional Representations with flexible subassemblies 
		 
	 
- Tube & Pipe - when cursor is hovering over components 
		 
	 
 
 
Part
 
   
   
  - Edge and face selection is improved 
		 
	 
- Feature patterns 
		 
	 
 
 
 Spreadsheet Performance Enhancements
 
   
   Microsoft Excel is no longer required for spreadsheet operations that 
	 read or 
	 export data. As a result, iPart and iAssembly spreadsheet-driven operations are 2-20 times faster. 
  
 
   Microsoft Excel is required to 
	 create and 
	 edit spreadsheets. 
  
 
  For more information on these changes, refer to the following: