Inventor

Autodesk Inventor is another of our core mechanical modelling platforms, offering the same broad category of parametric part and assembly modelling as SolidWorks, and we work in whichever platform matches your team's existing environment rather than pushing a preferred tool. For clients already standardised on the wider Autodesk ecosystem (AutoCAD, Navisworks, Civil 3D), Inventor often fits more naturally into an existing file and data management workflow.

Product design and development work in Inventor follows the same discipline we apply across mechanical modelling generally — clean, logical feature trees, sensible assembly constraint structure, and models built to be edited later, not just to look right in their current state.

Manufacturing drawing production from an Inventor model benefits from tight integration between the model and its derived 2D documentation, which helps keep drawings and BOMs synchronised as a design goes through revisions during development.

Sheet metal design in Inventor follows the same principle we apply in SolidWorks: bend and flat pattern parameters are set to match your actual fabrication process, not left as generic defaults that produce a flat pattern requiring manual correction on the shop floor.

Inventor's frame generator and weldment tools are a practical fit for equipment and machine design work involving structural steel frames as part of a broader mechanical assembly, letting us model and document these members alongside the equipment they support rather than treating structural frame design as an entirely separate exercise.

For manufacturers with an existing library of legacy Inventor files, we work within that library's established naming and iProperty conventions where they exist, since consistency with an established archive matters more for long-term usability than introducing a theoretically cleaner but disconnected new convention.

Where a project needs to move between Inventor and Autodesk's wider design and documentation tools — Vault for data management, Navisworks for broader coordination — we structure our modelling work to integrate cleanly with whichever of these tools your team already relies on.

iLogic and design automation tools within Inventor offer a practical way to speed up repetitive configuration work for manufacturers producing a family of related products, and where a client's product line genuinely benefits from this kind of automation, we build the underlying model structure to support it rather than treating each variant as an entirely manual modelling exercise.

Presentation and exploded view tools in Inventor are useful beyond just marketing purposes — a well-built exploded view with clear assembly sequencing can double as genuinely useful assembly instruction documentation for a production line, and we build these views with that dual purpose in mind where it's relevant to a project's actual deliverables.

Stress analysis add-ins available within Inventor, where a client has access to them, work most effectively against geometry prepared specifically for that purpose, and we discuss upfront whether a model needs to support this kind of analysis so it can be built appropriately rather than needing rework later.

Cable and harness design tools within Inventor, where a project involves electrical routing alongside mechanical structure, let us document wiring and cable paths within the same model as the surrounding mechanical assembly rather than treating electrical routing as a completely disconnected design exercise handled elsewhere.

Large assembly performance in Inventor, for full machine designs with hundreds of components, benefits from deliberate use of level-of-detail representations and simplified sub-assemblies, keeping the model responsive to work in without sacrificing the full detail needed for manufacturing documentation when it's actually required.

Model-based definition workflows, where a client's process supports working directly from an annotated 3D model rather than a traditional 2D drawing, are available within Inventor for teams ready to move in that direction, though we scope this carefully since it depends on downstream processes — inspection, procurement — being equipped to consume model-based data rather than a conventional drawing.

Reverse engineering into Inventor from a physical part or scan data follows the same measurement and validation discipline we apply across every reverse-engineering project, regardless of which specific CAD platform the resulting model is built in.