What’s New

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2019

Carsten John Jacobsen

Inventor Overview

Professional Grade Connected: Inventor Experience General Enhancements

• Assemblies • Migrate Custom Settings

• Shared Views • New and Improved Hole
• Drawings Command • Color Schemes
• Autodesk Drive
• Performance • Sheet Metal Face and
Enhancements • AnyCAD for Inventor Corner enhancements
• Help Content and Fusion 360 • Tube and Pipe
enhancements
2018 Update
• iLogic
• Frame Generator
• Model Based Definitions enhancements • Inventor 2018.1
(MBD)
• Assembly Constraints • Inventor 2018.2
• Sketch enhancements • Inventor 2018.3
• Fillet Enhancement
• Direct Editing
OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | PERFORMANCE
We know performance is important, so we're constantly looking for ways to improve Inventor performance. This release
has improvements in the following areas:

• Assembly

– In-place editing

– Updates

– Pattern selection

• Drawing

– View creation

– Updates

– Navigation
OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | PERFORMANCE

• General

– Display of Threads

– Mouse Wheel Zoom

• Contents Center

– In Memory Caching
OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | HELP CONTENT

• Large Assembly Best Practices

• Large Assembly Modelling Workflows

OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | ILOGIC

• Components and Management Behaviour

– Add / Delete Parts

– Add / Delete Assemblies

– Add / Delete Constraints

• Capture Current Model State

• Assign Geometry Names

OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | ILOGIC

• New iLogic Assembly Add Constraints

Functions

The new iLogic Relationships (Add) functions

allow you to create an iLogic assembly whose
occurrences and constraints are generated by a
rule.

• New Capture Current State Commands.

The Capture Current State command now

retains states when you use:

– Components.Add,
– Components Constraints.Add,
– Constraints.Add, and
– Patterns.Add.
OVERVIEW | PROFESSIONAL GRADE DESIGN | MODEL BASED DEFINITION

• Tolerance Advisor Face Status

• 3D Annotation Hole / Thread Quality

OVERVIEW | CONNECTED DESIGN | SHARED VIEWS

• Create

– Curate and share viewable to Autodesk Viewer

– Unique URL with 30-day expiration

• Share

– View/Comment/Markup in Autodesk Viewer

– Activity feed in-product panel

• Same experience across Autodesk Products

– AutoCAD, Vault, Inventor, Civil 3D, Alias, Plant3D, DelCAM,

Moldflow, 3ds Max and Infraworks product lines.
OVERVIEW | CONNECTED DESIGN | AUTODESK DRIVE

• Autodesk Drive (Subscription Benefit)

– Cloud storage solution

– Organize, preview, and share any type of design data.
– Access Directly from the Desktop

• Desktop Connector for Autodesk Drive

– Desktop Connector is a desktop service that

integrates an Autodesk data management source (or
data source) with your desktop folder and file structure
for easy file management.

• CAD-aware cloud storage for individuals and small teams

• Supports over 60 types of Autodesk and 3rd party files

• View and organize files stored in Autodesk Drive from your

desktop
OVERVIEW | CONNECTED DESIGN | ANYCAD FOR INVENTOR & FUSION 360
OVERVIEW | CONNECTED DESIGN | ANYCAD FOR INVENTOR & FUSION 360

Intended Use – What it is? Intended Use – What it isn’?

• *Preview capability that allows customers to bring together • Native editing in Inventor and Fusion
designs from Fusion and Inventor
• Roundtripping from:
• Associative Consumption via AnyCAD
– Fusion > Inventor > Fusion
• Ability for data to flow 1 of 2 ways
– Inventor > Fusion > Inventor
– Inventor parts into Fusion 360

– Fusion 360 models into Inventor

*Preview Technology expected until later in FY 19

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | THE HOLE COMMAND

• New Hole Command Panel.

• Introduction of Breadcrumb to aid feature creation.

and edit

• Faster Command Call-up.

• Works Smarter by inferring hole placement from your

interactions.

• Apply multiple Dimensional and Concentric

Constraints without creating a Sketch first.

• Switch Between Feature Editing & Sketch Editing

without exiting the command.

• Pre-sets: Save commonly used pre-sets for accuracy

and speed.
OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | SHEET METAL FACE & CORNER ENHANCEMENTS

• Offset Direction “Both Sides”

Many have asked to be able to centre

the sheet metal part along its thickness.

Autodesk heard you, and the Face

command now supports extruding from
the mid-plane to create a symmetric
face.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | SHEET METAL FACE & CORNER ENHANCEMENTS

• Corner Enhancements

– Laser Weld Relief Shape

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | TUBE AND PIPE & FRAME GENERATOR

• Tube & Pipe

– Lock Hose

– Performance Enhancements

• Frame Generator

– CUTDETAIL enhancement for

members with multiple end
treatments outlining the cut angles
in iProperties that can be used in
the BOM.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | ASSEMBLY CONSTRAINTS

• Assembly Constraints

– Lock Rotation.

– Opposed (default): Reverses the mate direction of the first

selected component.

– Aligned: Maintains the mate direction of the first selected

component.

– Undirected: Creates an undirected axis constraint on the

closest axis.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | ASSEMBLY CONSTRAINTS

• New Solution to Lock Rotation

with Insert Constraint

Use the new option, Lock Rotation, to

lock the rotational degrees of
freedom on a component when
placing an insert constraint. This
option prevents the part from rotating.

With Lock Rotation applied, the Insert

constraint displays with a locked icon
in the browser.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | SKETCH ENHANCEMENTS

• Variable Pitch Helix

The Helical Curve command

has been enhanced to
streamline creating a variable
pitch helix.

For drawing sketches,

AutoProject edges during
curve creation has been
improved to behave the same
as model sketches.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | INVERTED FILLET

• Inverted Fillet

This new fillet option is the result of your

feedback.

You can create a fillet with 1) convex edges

or 2) concave edges.

• Thicken Command

Information about the depth and the method

now display in the browser when the
Application Option/Parts tab Display
extended information after feature node
name in browser setting is enabled.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | DIRECT EDITING

• Automatic Blending for Direct Edit

Automatic blending is a re-blending

technology that automatically moves
adjacent tangential faces and also
creates new blends if required. It is
available when you move or rotate a
face.

An Inventor Ideas Station Submission

General Enhancements

• Migrating Custom Settings

• Colour Scheme Enhancements
OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS

• Migrate Custom Settings

Use Migrate Custom Settings to bring your

existing customization and Application
Option settings into the latest Inventor
Release.

Administrators have additional control over

use of this option in deployments.
OVERVIEW | THE INVENTOR EXPERIENCE | GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS | COLOUR SCHEMES

• Colour Enhancements

The Color Scheme Editor is installed as

part of Inventor 2019.

You can access it from the Application

Options > Colors Tab.

Customizations are saved to the

Application Options xml file.
INVENTOR 2018 UPDATES
• Inventor 2018.1
• Inventor 2018.2
• Inventor 2018.3
INVENTOR 2018.1 UPDATE

• AnyCAD for SolidEdge.

• New Tolerance feature annotation.

• Project Geometry as Construction Geometry by default.

• 3D Annotations for Assemblies.

• iLogic

– New Robust Events Trigger Workflow

INVENTOR 2018.1 UPDATE – CONT.

• Bill of Materials Thumbnail Enhancement.

• Add Participant and Weld Bead Enhancement.

• Component will be placed at a point on the axis closest to the selection

point.

• Task Scheduler > Shrink Wrap.

INVENTOR 2018.2 - INTEROPERABILITY

Desktop and Cloud

• Move Data between the Desktop and the Cloud: AnyCAD for Fusion 360

– Desktop Connector.

– Identify a Fusion Team Account.

INVENTOR 2018.2 - INTEROPERABILITY

New Functions

• Import Fusion 360 (.fusiondesign) files as an

AnyCAD Reference Model.

• Support for moving Points attached to DWG

Underlay Geometry.

• Resolve Missing AnyCAD References.

INVENTOR 2018.2 - PARTS

Model Based Definitions (MBD)

• All-round symbol for Profile of a Surface

• DWF Export

• 3D PDF Export

– Associative face highlight for tolerance

annotations that reference multiple faces.
INVENTOR 2018.2 – SHEET METAL PARTS
Enhanced Workflow

• Sync Unfold Rule.

INVENTOR 2018.2 – ILOGIC

The Rule Editor

• Autocomplete

– Inventor Parameters

– iLogic Objects and Functions

– Inventor API objects

– .NET Objects

• Header Section

• Syntax Colouring

• CTRL S
INVENTOR 2018.2 – ILOGIC
Working Faster in Assemblies

• Ground and Root

– Ground at Origin

– Create Origin Flush Constraints

– Repositioning to the top of the browser

• Content Center

– Improves Save

– Quick Search

• Improved Preview for Assembly Chamfer

• Editing Supressed Constraints

INVENTOR 2018.2 – ILOGIC
Improvements

• Sketch

– Visibility Icon in Mini-Toolbar

• Drawing

– Hatch: Apply to Multiple Closed Profiles

– Split table Help Updated

• Image Export: Transparent Background

– PNG, TIFF and BMP

• Measurement Tool

– Accumulate Values of Measurements

INVENTOR 2018.3 - ANYCAD
• AnyCAD for Inventor

– Reference Future (newer) Versions of Inventor

Part and Assembly Files

– You can now reference an Inventor 2019 part or

assembly file in Inventor 2018.

– You must have Inventor 2018.3 installed to

support opening 2019 part and assembly files.
Inventor 2018.3 can be downloaded via the
Autodesk desktop app or from
https://manage.autodesk.com.

– Use the Open, Place, or Derive command to

create a reference to a future version of an
Inventor part or assembly file.

• AnyCAD Enhancements

– Newer Versions of AnyCAD Formats are

Supported
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