Inventor

"Best modelling sodtware"

Commentaires: Inventor is very helpful for my business as I want to create the solid models of my new product ideas. Inventor allowa me to modell those ideas with perfect finishing. I can use these modells to express my ideas to my workers and customers. Though there are many modelling softwares, surface finishing in Inventor is exceptional. The modells look very attractive, colourful and realistic. I recommend Inventor for any solid modelling purpose.

Avantages: Finishing
Tools
User interface
Reliability

Inconvénients: Nothing. This is the best modelling software with best finished look of the models.

"A very good solid modeling and simulation choice"

Commentaires: The annual subscription is a good value for the money

Avantages: The subscription-based price model and great customer support. Much better than Solidworks in this regard.

Inconvénients: Hole feature does not have the robustness of SolidWorks. It is not possible to mate to planes and other non-model features.

"Fairly Intuitive"

Avantages: I found this software easy to learn the basics and not too difficult to learn the advanced features. I would however strongly recommend that you buy a learning inventor tutorial book and work your way through it. Once the basics drawing concept is understood, it’s easy to draw 3D components and assemble them as parts. I think this software works for both the amateur and professional designer. I use it for designing my woodworking projects and it’s made my life much easier having cutting diagrams for each part and confirming that there will be no interference in parts when assembled. I have tried SketchUp, and found Inventor to be much more intuitive to use.

Inconvénients: There does not seem to be an existing user community library of parts. In this regard, SketchUp is superior.

"Decent CAD Package"

Commentaires: Overall Inventor is a decent CAD package. A lot of functionality for a relatively low cost. However this comes with some frustrations.

Avantages: This software has many useful features for it's price point.

Inconvénients: Crashes more than other CAD systems I've used. There have also been many times I've struggled to get a function to perform correctly, in ways that make the software seem buggy.

"3D Modeling Awesome"

Commentaires: Inventor allows me to do my job, mechanical engineering, I use it daily to design, analyze and draw components we make.

Avantages: Inventor is used in everything we do. We need to accurately model things in 3d and create the fabrication and shop drawings. Since it is an Autodesk product it integrates easily with our use of AutoCAD too, with easy output to 2D cad formats as well.

Inconvénients: It can be challenging to learn at first but it is easy if you know another 3D modeling program. The one thing I think the competition does better is exploded views, I dislike the exploded view functionality.