This release contains a multitude of enhancements to help you solve your everyday design challenges.
Best-in-Class Revit Interoperability
New tools make sharing critical design criteria with construction counterparts easier than ever. Inventor 2026 enhances the quality of RVT and IFC exports for iterative AEC design workflows.
Metadata, including standard, custom, factory, and instance iProperties, can now be associatively shared within RVT and IFC exports. A new Revit Category iProperty can be assigned to each Revit element exported from Inventor. Placement controls have been introduced for aligning Inventor geometry with Revit origins, which is essential for precise positioning in Revit projects. A new 'Parts Only' structure option is now available for creating a single Revit element for every Inventor part at all levels. It is also possible to select custom templates, allowing seamless collaboration with Revit users and scheduling of your Inventor data with shared parameters. IFC 4x3 has been included for both the Export Building Components workflow and Simplify to Revit, enabling production of the most recent IFC standards.
Customer Driven Enhancements
A steady mix of usability and productivity refinements has been made across a wide variety of existing capabilities. Many of these improvements have been requested by you, our global partners—designers, engineers, CAD managers, and others.
Updates include; a new associative Mirror Pattern option in assemblies that respects geometry and position, the ability to simplify, or create irregular rectangular and circular patterns within parts, enhanced experiences when working with model states, an alternative “Rounded Corners” option within the Shell command, an improved experience when CAPS lock are on and MM or IN are used as inputs, assembly level PMI exported to STEP/JT, and an overabundance of other JDI (Just Do It) improvements.
Enhanced Model State workflows include editing multiple selected model states, sharing or breaking shared BOM relationships, editing in the table editor, improved robustness, and refined clarity for the active model state, edit scope, captured items, and zero quantity BOM items.
Professional Grade Documentation
Reliability and accuracy continue to be driving factors in enhancing 2D drafting competencies. Updates have been made to better convey design intent with improved view accuracy, enhanced parametric control, and annotation definition according to global standards and norms.
Enhancements include view accuracy with parametrically driven broken views and jagged projected detail views and partial section views, enhanced view labels for associative cross-sheet referencing, a new dimensioning standard for equally spaced dimensions, and DIN architecture compliance.
Performance
Significant optimizations have been made to the file opening and saving processes, leading to quicker access to design files.
Files saved within Autodesk Inventor 2026 are significantly smaller, making them easier to share, store, and archive. Specialized workflows, such as patterning a punch feature within a sheet metal part or searching within a content center library using data contained within a custom column, have been drastically improved.
Modern Look and Usability
Five part modeling workflows (Pattern, Shell, Sheet Metal Contour Flange, Punch Tools, and Corner Round) have been revamped to deliver a more intuitive, simple, and pleasing experience from significant updates.
Each command has been significantly improved with interactive in-canvas previews and manipulators, a configurable property panel interface, and new visual references for determining final outcomes. The File Open dialog has also benefited from significant updates.