Autodesk Inventor Professional gives you the tools to record your engineering decisions and share the results of simulation with team members - allowing you to derive maximum benefit from your digital prototypes.
- Model Simplification - Reduce the time required to generate results from stress analysis by simplifying part geometry to suppress features during FEA.
- Graphing - Use the comprehensive graphing capability in Inventor Professional Suite to quickly investigate how the dynamic characteristics of your design vary through its operating cycle.
- Analysis Output - Select different ways to view analysis results to make it easier to understand and visualize complex problems. Your analysis visualization options include smooth and contour color plots, mesh plots, animation, and interactive probes.
- Report Generation - Easily share and record the results of your analysis. Inventor Professional includes a custom report generator with embedded graphics.
Autodesk Inventor Professional provides rules-based routing tools that select the correct fittings and helps the pipe run to comply with your standards for segment length, round-off increments, and bend radius.
- Rigid Tube Routing - Quickly create rigid tubes with superior control over the shape, bend angles, and radii. Create rigid tubes with an arbitrary number of bends and variable custom bend angles and radii.
- Tube and Pipe Styles - Increase the quality and manufacturability of designs by helping to ensure that tube and pipe runs automatically adhere to preset design standards. Create tube and pipe styles to support the use of threaded, welded, and flanged connections.
- Creating Runs - Automatically populate piping routes with real parts that adhere to manufacturing standards. The Populate Route tool turns tube, pipe, and hose routes into physical pipe runs, automatically placing fittings, pipe segments, rigid tubes, and hoses as needed.
- Hygienic Pipe Runs - Design process lines that comply with sterility and hygiene standards required for process equipment in the pharmaceutical, food, and personal care industries.
- Tube and Pipe Documentation - Create manufacturing deliverables without redrawing—reducing errors and associated costs. Fully associative documentation for tube and pipe runs provides assembly drawings that update whenever a change is made to the 3d design.
Autodesk Inventor Professional streamlines cable and harness design by leveraging wire list information imported from schematic design packages such as AutoCAD@ Electrical.
- Functional Harness Design - Design cable and harness components in 3D to reduce manufacturing problems, facilitate output of manufacturing drawings, and avoid late-stage engineering change orders.
- Wire List Input - Maintain electrical design intent and reduce errors when importing wire lists into the assembly. Quickly import large wire lists from AutoCAD® Electrical or third-party schematic design applications, with detection and correction of missing connectors, pins, and wire definitions.
- Wire Routing - Quickly route thousands of wires while exerting control over the paths of critical wires. Inventor supports manual, interactive, and automatic routing with accurate wire length calculation.
Full integration with the bill of materials (BOM) tools in Autodesk Inventor Professional software helps you make sure that your BOM accurately represents the electrical components in your design.
- Ribbon Cables - Reduce errors in the design of electronic equipment by incorporating ribbon cables in your 3D digital prototype.
- Harness Validation - Improve cable quality and manufacturability and prevent costly recalls and product failures by adhering to design standards. Inventor software automatically calculates quality parameters, including bundle diameter, bend radius, and wire lengths whenever you make changes to the harness.
- Harness Documentation - Quickly and easily create manufacturing documentation before you build the first article. Since cable and harness geometry is native to Inventor, you can create assembly documentation showing accurate cable and harness placement details.
- Connector Authoring - Set up company-specific connector libraries to encourage the use of preferred connectors in the design of electrical products.
