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:

• Inventor Excel Requirements
• To Configure iLogic Options (Excel Options section)