User Interface

UI Themes

The Dark UI theme graduates from a pre-release state to being officially available across the Inventor user interface. You can select to use it by going to Tools Options panel Application Options Colors tab and changing the UI theme.

For more information, see Colors Tab Reference.

Reset the User Interface Layout

When working with multiple monitors you might dock property panels or the model browser in other windows. When you want to consolidate everything back into the primary window, use the Reset UI Layout command. (Go to View tab Windows.)

For more information, see About Graphics Windows and To Work with Graphics Windows.

Property Panels

Tool Palette

Some property panels, such as Fillet and Measure, utilize a tool palette. Tool palettes expose options useful for the command in use. Tool palettes are docked to the property panel by default. They can be dragged away from the property panel to a convenient location in the canvas. To dock them with the property panel, drag them next to it.

Warning Notifications

Warning notifications display as an exclamation mark inside a red diamond shape. These notifications alert you to blocking conditions such as conflicting inputs, an error condition, or an issue preventing successful feature creation. If the issues are in a selection set and the set display is collapsed, the notification is added to the set node.

For more information, see About Property Panels.

Presets

Built-in presets (predefined with a purpose) are included with the Simplify command.

Presets use the Document Settings for length units. New custom presets based on a built-in preset use the unit value assigned when the New Preset command was initiated and do not use document units.

For more information, see To Work with Presets.

Text Formatting Enhancements

Some Format Text dialog controls are consolidated improving the workflow and helping reduce the interface clutter. No behaviors are changed.

• Properties and Parameters lists are combined into the Type list

• Properties - Model and Properties Drawing are combined into Standard iProperties

• Custom Properties - Model and Custom Properties - Drawing are combined into Custom iProperties

• Parameters - Component becomes Parameters - Model, label change only

• Dropdown lists are labeled

• Controls that are relocated

  • Text Rotation moves up a row
  • Text Border moves up a row
  • Text Box (Sketch text only) moves to the left of the Color control
  • Symbol list moves up with other formatting controls

For more information, see Format Text Reference.

For more information on Sketch text, see To Work with Sketches.

Inventor Mold

The tools provided with Inventor for mold simulation, analysis and material assignment are removed for R2022. In addition to the material library being out of date, the analysis portion of the tool was 32-bit and presented a possible future security risk.

The following commands are removed:

• Select Material
• Part Process Settings
• Part Fill Analysis
• Mold Process Settings
• Mold Fill Analysis
• Set Plot Property
• Examine Results
• Job Manager
• Animate Results
• Overlay (Air trap and Weld line browser context menu)

For more information, see Inventor Mold Analysis and Moldflow Insight vs. Moldflow Adviser.

Copy Object

The Copy Object command now supports window select.

• Full window - click+drag the mouse diagonally from upper left to lower right to select objects by fully enclosing them in the window shape made by the action.
• Crossing window - click+drag the mouse diagonally from the upper right to the lower left to select all objects intersecting the window shape made by the action.

For more information, see About Copying and Moving Geometry and To Copy Objects Between Part, Assembly, and Construction Environments.

Localized Templates

Starting from the Inventor 2022 release, all templates are named "Standard.xxx" during installation. This is a change for the localized versions of Inventor. To use localized templates created prior the Inventor 2022 release, we recommend renaming the old templates using a new "Standard.xxx" name as part of the template migration process. For example change "Norm.idw" to "Standard.idw".

Application Options

A new option is available on the Application Options Display tab. The Automatically update referring documents option controls whether or not color and visibility updates occur in open assembly documents when a sub-component is modified.

For more information, see Display Tab Reference (Application Options).

Highlight New

Highlight New interface and tooltips are improved for clarity when using the option.

For more information, see To Highlight New and Updated Commands and Property Panel Feature Options,

Learning Content Videos

The Flash video format is no longer supported.

• All flash videos are removed from the learning content. Remaining videos are not flash files and are viewable.
• Inventor Guided Tutorial videos use the WEBM format and are viewable.