Performance Enhancements

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: