What's New in Inventor 2021

Learn about new features in the latest releases of Autodesk Inventor.

2021.3 Updates

Inventor 2021.3 provides customer driven enhancements, functionality improvements, and multiple fixes. For technical details, see the release notes.

What's New for Inventor 2021.3

Enhancements for Inventor 2021.3 focused on translator formats and functionality.

2021.2 Updates

Inventor 2021.2 provides customer driven enhancements, functionality improvements, and multiple fixes. For technical details, see the release notes.

Assembly Enhancements

Lock and unlock multiple Design View Representations quickly via the browser context menu.

Part Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to Inventor that impact the Part environment.

Drawing Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to editing dimensions and the Weld End Fill dialog box.

Productivity Enhancements

Learn about the productivity enhancements made to Inventor that impact all environments.

Translator Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to Inventor Translators.

General Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to the iLogic user interface, File Open from the browser, and other new features.

2021.1 Updates

Inventor 2021.1 provides customer driven enhancements, functionality improvements, and multiple fixes. For technical details, see the release notes.

Assembly Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to the assembly environment.

Drawings

Learn about the enhancements made to the drawing environment.

Interoperability Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to interoperability.

Productivity Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to property panels.

General Enhancements

Learn about the enhancements made to Inventor that impact all environments.

2021 Release

Autodesk Inventor 2021 is packed with customer-driven updates and enhancements to help you speed up your design workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and improve experiences so you can focus more time on design and innovation. For technical details, see the release notes.

Overview and Assemblies

Overview

Learn about the 2021 Updates and Enhancements

Frame Generator Enhancements

Numerous productivity enhancements were made, including file naming, new category filter, editing capabilities, and more.

Frame Analysis Enhancements

Multiple options are added to the Frame Analysis Settings Solver tab to provide robustness and stability.

Bolted Connection Enhancement

The Bolted Connection dialog box now contains a toggle that supports inserting the connection as individual components or as a sub-assembly into the main assembly.

Tube & Pipe Enhancements

Improvements to File Naming for Tube and Pipe designs and modernized user-interface.

Mirror & Copy Enhancements

The File Naming dialog box is enhanced to support the Mirror and Copy commands.

General Enhancements in Assemblies

Improvements are made to Override and Express mode workflows.

Parts and Sketch

Part Enhancements

Multiple productivity enhancements are made to the part environment.

Sketch Enhancements

Start the Horizontal Constraint command with the new shortcut key (press the dash sign on your keyboard).

Drawings

Drawing/Sheet Format Templates Enhancements

The Sheet Format workflow is streamlined to provide a more productive process for creating drawing (.idw, .dwg) files. New behaviors make drawing workflows repeatable and require less effort.

Dimension Type Enhancements

Multiple improvements are added to dimension workflows.

Drawing Style Enhancements

Improvements are made to the Shaded View workflow.

General Drawing Enhancements

A new command, Centerlines, is added and the Measure command is now supported in drawings.

General

Save Enhancements

New Save settings give you more control over when Inventor prompts you to save.

Dark Theme (pre-release)

Learn about the pre-Release of the Inventor dark theme.

iLogic Enhancements

Improvements to iLogic make it easier than ever to automate the creation of drawings.

General Enhancements

Changes are made to Configuator 360, 2 lighting styles names, and access to Tolerance Analysis.

Translator Enhancements

Improvements are made to the JT export format.

Performance Enhancements

Inventor continues to raise the bar for you to work more productively with your increasingly larger and more complex designs.

Productivity and Workflow Enhancements

Property panels continue to expand to more areas of Inventor. You can now use the streamlined property panel workflow in Bend, Coil, Combine, Copy Object, Decal, Delete Face, Split, Thicken/Offset, and all frame generator commands.