What’s New - Autodesk Inventor 2022

Autodesk’s experienced product, Inventor 2022 is now available. This year you can see improvements and updates in the following key areas:

• Customer driven improvements
• Continued delivery of professional grade functionality
• Connected workflows

The tools that have been added to Inventor 2022 have been the most requested enhancements by users. These new tools and other improvements to the software, provides Inventor users with more functionality than ever before.

Autodesk have continued to transform the Inventor product by moving yet more panels to the new dockable system, delving deeper into commands such as Fillet, Measure and the new functionality. This works to improve the overall experience and feel of the product, allowing for a cleaner and more desirable experience for end users.

Autodesk Inventor 2022 includes a new workflow for users with the introduction of Model States. Model states will replace Level of Detail in this year’s edition. This allows users to break their model down into manufacturing stages, simplification levels or product families. It is important to note here that model states vary between dimensions, design features with suppressions states, components and bill of materials, iProperties and parameters. This powerful new workflow has been integrated across the software allowing users to utilise this in iLogic and add variations in assemblies and drawings.

Shrinkwrap and Shrinkwrap Substitutes have been combined to create a more efficient and well-built tool called Simplify. Simplify incorporates all existing functionality and allows users to work with Presets, thereby generating desired standards for exporting files. The simplify tool also allows users to break models down by feature and component to export directly to a Revit file. With this new functionality, a new workflow for export to Revit has been created so users can now update the Revit file from within Inventor.

Autodesk has taken a look at the interoperability with Fusion 360. A new workflow has been created to allow you to bypass the desktop connector and send files directly to Fusion from within the model. This improved connected workflow improved productivity and performance for users working within the Product Design Manufacturing Collection.

The final new tool added to Autodesk Inventor 2022 release is the introduction of Instance Properties. In previous releases iProperties had limited functionality, this occurs when a singular component wanted to be modified within multiple higher level assemblies. Instance properties counteract this issue as they are stored in the parent assembly file and take precedence over iProperties. This new functionality could be used to generate individual properties for content centre files, or to separate same components in an assembly for the BOM and parts lists.

Updates and new functionality for existing tools and commands have also been added. A notable addition to the assembly environment is the constraint enhancements. New icons allow users to see under constrained components, allowing for greater control of their models. The drawing environment has been upgraded with additions to view placement and shaded lighting styles.

Autodesk have hit there three main aims by generating new workflows and adding greater functionality to already experienced tools, creating a better overall experience for users.

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