--- title: Inventor Reviews meta_title: 'Inventor Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 440 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Inventor works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 440 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Inventor Reviews **Vendor:** Autodesk **Category:** [Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mechanical-computer-aided-design-mcad) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 440 ## About Inventor Autodesk® Inventor® 2021 software provides engineers and designers professional grade design and engineering solution for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation. With Inventor software, engineers can integrate 2D and 3D data into a single design environment, creating a virtual representation of the final product that enables them to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built. Autodesk Inventor includes powerful parametric, direct edit and freeform modeling tools as well as multi-CAD translation capabilities and industry standard DWG™ drawings. Helping you to reduce development costs, get to market faster, and make great products. Speak to Autodesk Sales at 1-844-335-4986. ## Inventor Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** in Inventor, which enhances learning and boosts productivity in solid modeling. (4 reviews) - Users enjoy the **user-friendly features** of Inventor, especially the shortcuts and design gallery that enhance creativity. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of Inventor, making solid modeling accessible for all skill levels. (1 reviews) - Users value the **accuracy** of Inventor, appreciating its reliable and precise solid modeling capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface** of Inventor, enhancing both learning and assembly design experience. (1 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly assembly management** in Inventor, making it accessible for both beginners and pros. (1 reviews) - Compatibility (1 reviews) - Customer Support (1 reviews) - Customization (1 reviews) - Ease of Learning (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience lagging issues with **heavy assemblies** in Inventor, impacting their workflow and efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of Inventor overwhelming, struggling to remember all the necessary information and functions. (1 reviews) - Users experience frustrating **crashes** with Inventor, leading to lost progress and the need to restart frequently. (1 reviews) - Users find the **difficult learning** curve of Inventor challenging due to the extensive information required. (1 reviews) - Users find the **insufficient training** a barrier, especially for teaching novice students effectively. (1 reviews) - Insufficient Tutorials (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) - Limited Educational Resources (1 reviews) - Limited Learning Resources (1 reviews) - Performance Issues (1 reviews) ## Inventor Reviews ### 1. Machining background with a current focus on sheetmetal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas D. | Mechanical Engineer, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Having used Pro-e, Solidworks and Inventor, in my opinion Inventor has the strongest sheet metal modeling package. The K factor adjustments and flat pattern layouts are excellent. The drawing portion is easy to use and the assembly package doesn't bloat files too badly. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** In my opinion, Solidworks CAM integration for machining centers is stronger than the Inventor solution. Perhaps with 3rd party features more integration can be achieved that would put it on par. At this stage of my career though I am not using machining. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Highest recommendations if you're looking for outstanding sheetmetal modelling capabilities. Strong but basic FEA tools are very useful as well. Its not ANSYS however it will give you high level results with proper inputs. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using K-Factors rather than laying out DXF files for flattened parts is highly customizable and much faster than what is now outdated methodology. Currently designing sheet metal enclosures where some of the fast "auto flanges" save me time. ### 2. Excellent capability, decent learning curve for existing CAD/CAM users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amir F. | CAD Detailer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Really powerful software, surprisingly resource-efficient for use on laptops, and the de facto standard for many uses. With a dedicated CAD rig (or repurposed gaming PC), performance even when dealing with large and complex models is excellent. The design and portability are really quite good, and when coupled with access to CNC machinery and 3D printing capability makes the prototyping process incredibly quick. Currently experimenting with amateur photogrammetry for metrology and rapid design capability (converting clay models or plastic-printing pens), and the toolset is powerful enough to leverage those capabilities quite well. Easy enough to use that high school students can tap many of the advanced capabilities with even limited background. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** For myself, as an old school Autodesk user the added capability is impressive, although the UI updates feel a lot like contemporary changes that fixed things which weren't broken in the first place. The biggest headache I have right now is that the install is tedious to reroute, particularly when repurposing existing computers for STEM outreach projects, anything other than the default installation is hard, and often inconsistent. Interfacing with open source tools is actually quite good, but innate support for that is unsurprisingly limited. Still, a really minor complaint, as properly packaged for export files are handled really well with existing CAM workflow and automation in slicing tools for experienced additive manufacturers. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to flexibly work on design projects for work, hobbies, and STEM Education and Outreach work are incredibly nice, and linking this capability to much more accessible maker tech really opens new doors for rapid prototyping. ### 3. Inventor is easy to use and efficient **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent M. | Electrical Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor makes 3D modeling very easy and intuitive. It is very easy to learn the basic commands and create a model from scratch. A lot of things are done using the ribbon at the top, which makes it very user friendly. A user can easily pick up the program and start creating 3D models. Another thing is the program does have a lot of other functionality built in, such as calculating a FEA. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Larger models become very slow on the PC if you dont have top of the line hardware. But most people are not going to have 1000's of parts. Inventor is also a memory hog, larger models can take 15-20 GB of memory. This can slow down your entire system if you do not have the correct hardware. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** I would recommend Inventor if you are currently using Autocad to create 3D models. The time required will decrease and the models will look better overall. Also the learning curve for someone who used Autocad will be small. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to model our product and send the file to our customer. They are then able to put the product into a 3D model of their factory to check for interference and to see how much space there would be. It makes the early design phase very easy, and commuication with the customer a breeze. ### 4. Perfect Performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaz B. | Designer LvL 1, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I have been used various CAD modeling programs and inventor has been the easiest to use and integrates well with the other AutoDesk programs. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I'd like to see an update to the naming system for pipes and bolted connections like the one added for frame generator. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Invetor is the best option for 3d CAD design and modeling. It has all the tools you need and integrates well with AutoDesk's other applications. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use inventor to solve heavy industrial equipment problems. Most of that consists of quick and accurate modeling of existing parts and creating 2D drawings from them. I can all this work quickly with inventor. ### 5. Great performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like that it's fairly quick to rebuild parts after changing a feature early on in the tree. I like the view cube in the upper right hand corner, very easy to reorient the view any way I want. The measure tool is very useful and easy to use. I really like how easy it is to start and orient a sketch, super simple and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** 1. I can't measure between the edges of sketched circles without putting points there to measure from. Why shouldn't I be able to measure the web thickness or specify that as my measurable value? If that's something that's a CTC on my print, then let me spec it, don't tell me it's not "good engineering". 2. Why can't I split/trim projected geometry? You make me import it as a line, so let me trim it like one. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Great program, very intuitive and simple to use, just remember to always save so you don't risk being in a 2D drawing and somehow losing progress. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** From the inventor 19, a very useful tool was Nesting, solved great difficulties when it comes to cuts in sheets ### 6. Overall, pretty good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I have a background in solidworks, so Inventor took some re-wiring to get used to, even though they are similar. But, the best thing about Inventor and that sets it apart from other 3d modeling programs is the ability to store and manipulate different views. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** There are minor changes that would really improve the basic use of inventor; things like adding a reverse direction button option when you are doing a mate constraint like in solidworks would prevent silly situations that are unnecessary. That and setting up projects has really shown to help much. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parametric capacity is great. Like using it through Excel and it functions well. It's own irules runs pretty slowly, but can before basic functions to access Excel well. I am able to change and customize a product very quickly through an excel sheet, which a absolute time saver. ### 7. INVENTOR THE BEST TOOL FOR DESIGNS. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teresa s. | senior systems technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** This tool is one of the best software I've seen to design the parts I need and I do not get them in the market. INVENTOR is very easy to use and with the help of the tutorials I have been able to learn how to develop this tool. It has allowed me to review the gears and the accuracies of the encage in a very fast way, I can review the resistance of the materials and design all necessary structures. Another important aspect is the possibility of making the pieces in modules which in the end I can join them and get a complete product of what I need, how it works and its durability, as long as we load the parameters in a correct way in the program . **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Actually I can not make a negative criticism of the program because it has been very good and the colleagues who have presented it has been very good. The only thing that you have to keep in mind is that when you perform 3D simulations you must have a computer with enough memories to support the software. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** We can recommend this work tool because it has been very useful in the projects we have had to carry out to our clients and they have been very satisfied to see the results and to make the parts or components that have been needed. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** As acessors of teams from different companies we have been able to design very simple pieces such as sheets to pieces for heavy machinery and robotics which are important for each of them, and the results have been satisfactory. We have been able to verify its resistance to be in operation before taking them to their original site and we have been able to determine faults before their creation in physics and correct them. ### 8. Changed the way we do business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob P. | Product Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The software is very easy to learn and use. It does not take long to be able to use Inventor in it's basic functions. Because there is an abundance of good instructional videos and information via the knowledge base network, even a beginner can be up and running in a very short period of time. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Honestly, not much in my opinion. If I had to pick one thing... I wish it had more tool that related to fluid power, and power transmission. Involute Spline templates, or fluid connectors would be a great addition. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Do It, you will not regret your decision! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to produce 3D solid models of castings. Inventor allowed us to do that very quick and effectively. Assemblies and having the ability to visualize and verify proper functions of mating parts was the icing on the cake. ### 9. Great product that makes work enjoyable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I enjoy the simplicity. I also enjoy all of the various interfaces that Inventor can tie into to make my job easier. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I'm not sure there is anything I would say that I dislike. Perhaps creating some time of ability to have one model linked to one part number that can be shown in various states. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Download a trial and play around with it. I find it has a very easy learning curve **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solved the problem of having engineering being the constraint. We are able to release production drawings in a much faster timeframe. One of the benefits to using Inventor is the ability to provide our end users with a functional model that they can drop into there assembly to check for fits. ### 10. Easy to start with ability to continually improve, but can take a while to fully master **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** thomas m. | VDC/metrology manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I have used multiple parametric modeling packages before becoming an Inventor user. Once I learned the translation of how features in one package were done in Inventor, I was able to get competent quickly. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Even though new features are highlighted, I can see what the new features are, but not aware if there is also a capability to learn how to use the new feature from the feature menu. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** precision modeling from point cloud data which is then translated to perform precision installation of equipment. ### 11. My Opinions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph R K. | CAD Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** the power that inventor has behind it allows us to utilize the most out of our designs. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** its lacking the flexibility to deal with new emerging AI and 3D printing applications that requires us to learn a new program when time is short for us to spend on trying new products. It would also be nice to expand on the mold flow solution to handle liquid metals along with plastics **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** redefining manufacturing techniques to allow is to reduce cost, increase efficiency of the product. ### 12. Great for 3d Designing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** carlos jose p. | MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** i like that i can see in real time how my designs are taking form and the posibility of produce the layouts of the objects in any moment, with all the annotations that you deserve ready for the production. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** i dont like that it does not have all the functions for draw of the autocad, sometimes you are looking for a especific command for help in the drawing but you dont find it , in that case you have to look for other commands or continue that step of the drawing in autocad and then go back to the inventor. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** on the inventor i make the 3d designing and produce the layouts of the objects. ### 13. Best 3D Modeling Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Genevieve W. | Designer Level 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The reason i love Inventor is the comprehensive modeling tree that allows you to easily see, modify, and turn off operations and features in your model. This makes adaptive modeling possible and allows for easy rapid changes to parameters. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I would like to see inventor work more easily with AutoCAD. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We create 3D models to represent our equipment which can often change from a day to day so i make a single adaptive model that i can change on the fly. ### 14. Inventor user for 16 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew I. | Project Designer / CAD Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor is easy to use and helps designers to be more productive with tools like content center, frame generator, tube and pipe, etc.... **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Inventor does have a tendency to crash or lock up when working for long periods of time or on very large datasets. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Make sure that you get good training upfront and after implementation. Keep learning no matter how long you've used it **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventor helps up be more accurate first time. The time from quote to manufacture is reduced. ### 15. Great design tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Todd A. | Engineering Tech, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I use AutoCAD and Inventor both together. They work well together I have man older drawing in AutoCAD and it is easy to copy and paste into Inventor when I am updating to solid models. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Not always user friendly. It's capable of doing a lot of great things but they are not always easy to find or or apparent once you find them **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Works great very good value for the money. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to build and animate machines to check function before we build. ### 16. Easy to use and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mike w. | Software coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** UI is simple, API is easy to understand. Easy for new users to learn for the most part **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Delayed updates for known issues. I have two cases currently open with known issues with 2019.4.1 and 4.2 and yet the update is still available. One of them has been open for over 6 weeks and nothing resolved yet. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Easy to use and dont forget to get Vault at the same time. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most new employees don't understand 2D and it is helpfu ### 17. It takes CAD to a whole other level! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt B. | CNC Waterjet Operator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the ease in which I can create formed parts using Inventor. It takes the tedious work out of creating formed parts. No formulas or bend tolerances to look up. It incorporates what you can do in CAD and makes it more powerful from a design standpoint. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** If you are using Inventor to draw intermediate to advanced FLAT parts, this probably isn't the ideal program to use. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the ability to project parts in 3D and simplifying the creation of formed parts have been the greatest benefits I've seen from using Inventor. ### 18. Quick and easy tool for 3D cad models **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nate W. | Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor follows my logic. I can set up custom variables that I can change with ilogic forms to customize a model. When I define a dimension, it guides my model. When I change the dimension, the model changes to match that dimension. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The only downside I have really seen is that I cannot take an STL file and import it into Inventor 2020 as a solid. It imports as a mesh and I cannot really modify i.t **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Inventor to quickly design tooling for manufacturing. It speeds up the process of designing tooling because I can manipulate the model in 3D. I can assemble models together and make sure everything is going to fit the way I intended. ### 19. Inventor is Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob T. | CAD Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The features that customers request are often integrated quickly which allows me as a user and CAD Manager to help others become more efficient. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** That the product is locked on the Windows Platform. I would love to see this expanded to the MAC platform. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Give it a try, you will want to switch! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recent improvements have created our work environment to become faster. These are a direct result of customers asking for these improvements and Autodesk Listening ### 20. Excelent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert W. | Assistant Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It just does the job. Is easy to customize with VBA programs. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Unexplained crashes. Vault often shows a file needs updating but checking the file out, saving it, then checking it back in still shows it as needing an update. Saving a file sometimes doesn't actually do anything unless you make some minor edit that forces save. Files often request being checked out for updates when nothing was ever changed. This will happen repeatedly on a given file whether updates are performed or not. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Re-use of parts with their associated BOM data is #1. Pretty shaded images are great but Inventor lets me push prints and BOM data out to other departments, fast, accurate and reliably. ### 21. No integration? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Unlike the title says, it is actually very integrated with lots of software add-ins. Has almost the same integrations as the Fusion software but a little more advanced. I like the ability to design then have the add-ins to either nest/cam/3d print my file. Great integration **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Updates are a little slow to come in to fix some of the bugs but when they do fix it does help a lot. The software can still use some functions/features. For example in sheet metal. There is no ability to make a cylinder or a cone. Have to find a different way of making a cylinder in sheet metal which requires a little more thinking because it then needs to be made from a flat pattern **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is a very capapble piece of software that has a lot of the same functions from other competitors but at a reasonable price. Great integration to other Autodesk software if you use more than just inventor. Tutorials are also very easy to understand **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily design parts for 3d printing and get the files directly from the software. The only issue and not really an issue is to then slice the files for gcode. ### 22. All You Need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Holly G. | BIM/VDC Detailer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I love the Interface for Inventor and all the tools available. Drawings are so easy to setup and dimension, as well as customize reports. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I wish there was an easier way to minimize file sizes. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Make sure to have a detail oriented person set up all standards. Stay organized in file structures as to not lose parts. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Frame generator has been a life saver for design changes and being able to easily cope/miter. ### 23. I enjoy using Inventor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I really like using iParts and iLogic, as well as the graphics. I had a friend from another company come over from Germany where they use SolidEdge and the graphics and user interface are much better with Inventor. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** There are a few things I wish were easier to do in Inventor. I can't think of them exactly right now, but I know there have been times where I realize that I could have done something a lot quicker in another software. You can do most everything, but sometimes it just takes a little bit longer. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** It may not be as user-friendly as some competitors, but it's more powerful. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** iParts solve a lot of problems with replacing components within an assembly. Also, the iLogic and parameters allow me to be able to create smart models, which decreases the time required to create custom assemblies. ### 24. Relatively powerful, minor bugs that occasionally bother me **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick G. | Manager, Product Development Group, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Ease of use. the software has an intuitive GUI. The parametric abilities are huge daily feature that we use. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The ipart factory is not as smooth in my opinion as the configuration tool in solidworks. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** If you are looking for an easy to use extremely powerful Modeler Inventor has a great set of tools. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We build many small parts that are similar. the re-use of data has helped improve efficiency ### 25. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH INVENTOR. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JURAJ J. | MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** BIG ADVANTAGE IS FOR ME VAULT PROFESSIONAL, TO KEEP MY ASSEMBLIES AND PRODUCTION NICE AND CLEAN. VERY USEFUL WHEN YOU TRAVELING. ALSO WORKING AS GROUP ON SAME PROJECT ETC. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I REALLY WANT BACK DARK MODE. OTHER THING IS IN NEW INTERFACE (WHITE-BLUE) ICONS, WHEN YOU SUPPRESS CONSTRAIN IT DOESN'T SHOW VERY WELL, I RATHER HAVE STRIKETHROUGH NOT ONLY HIDDEN THE ICON. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** SIMPLE, EASY TO USE **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** YOU CAN ANIMATE, RUN FEA ETC. ### 26. Mausoleum design with Inventor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan H. | Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The best parts about Inventor are the ease of building complicated 3d models and the ability to use ilogic to create smart 3d models. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I would really like if Inventor had a search box in the open file dialog box. It would make find files much easier. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using ilogic to create smart models to simplify the process of some of our more common mausoleums. ### 27. Long Time Inventor User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor is the most flexible 3D parametric modeling package out there. You have the ability to do traditional history based parametric modeling, direct model editing, and free form t-spline modeling all in the same products and can combine them for the ultimate in flexibility. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I would love to see better bi-directional interoperability between Inventor and Revit. I would also like to see better tools within Inventor for working with LiDAR point cloud data. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are leveraging iLogic and the Inventor API to automate our design and engineering process to reduce our project lead times and deliver better quality products to our customers. ### 28. Using Inventor on a daily basis has brought joy back to the daily design process. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason M. | Cad Admin/senior designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The design in 3D space helps with interference issues that would be difficult to see in a 2D design. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The time it takes new users to get up to speed. Partially customization and partial on in house practices. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Give Inventor a fair shake and it will prove to be a powerful design package. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Part and assembly readability, part interferences, FEA solutions, and overall product design. ### 29. User Friendly CAD Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivasan A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Easy way of design by its simplest tools. Autocad users can easily design a model using inventor. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** There is lot of annotation symbols are missing in drawing tool. Like spot weld and more weld features. Gusset, cross breaker features are not available. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** user friendly like autocad and low price. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplest model tree ### 30. one of the best for the production **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario J. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** With the capability of make assemblies you are able to create multipieces objects and produce all the necessary layouts to make the work of the production team easier, also like the funtion for run stress analisys on the objects, so with that information you can be sure that your design is going to meet the expectations, my congratulations to autodesk for create this family of cad tools. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** i would like that the render option would produce pictures closer to the reality **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** look at the tutorials that comes with the program for solve your doubts **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** rendering, designing, production of layouts, checking of assemblies, stresses analisys ### 31. I thought my life was over until I used Inventor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn M. | Engineering Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Ease of use, interface design is current. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Would like to see industrial generative design in Inventor. Not all companies allow the use of cloud based software like Fusion. Seems to be lagging behind Solidworks a little **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been using Inventor for 18 years in a production enviroment. We would not be able to design the products we build had we not switched to Inventor. ### 32. Great & Powerful Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like how many different tools/functions/features there are in Inventor. There are multiple ways of doing any one things, and the user can find the way that fits their flow the best. iLogic is another major benefit / like. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike some of the non-documented work flows. I also dislike the ability work work seamlessly with other programs such as Vault. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated engineering. We need to produce more designs in less time. These engineer to order designs take a lot of time. iLogic and the API help us create tools to engineer solutions faster, that are more consistent, and more accurate. ### 33. Good tool for modeling and data collection. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It has all the tool sets to model anything that's required. Easy to get started with 3d modeling. On the drawings side, customization is available for data collection into iproperties to be put into vault and used in other software. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** High learning curve for anything to be customized. The features and capabilities are there, but the starter features are pretty limited and are easily out-grown. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modeling for conversion into 2d drawings. Modeling for 3d printing prototypes. It is easy to create models and export for 3d printing prototypes or production parts. Easy and intuitive to create 2d drawings with annotations. ### 34. Great product and continuous improvement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David H. | Sr. Design Engineer / BIM Mgr., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The ability to model in 3D which aids in concept review and analysis. HUD is great and the contextual menu works nice. It is easy to move from sketch, to model to drawings, which is a must for design review and sign-off. Each update has simplified the UI which is helpful. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The inability to share among other Autodesk products (Factory Design, Revit, et.) Revit has a great feature to EQUAL DIM objects, but Inventor does not. urrgghh **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Consider your overall organization for your assembly, and start with the skeleton (folders) to ease construction. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** New product design and simulation analysis for fabrication and manufacturing ### 35. Working tool with a few issues **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavel H. | System engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Intuitive use, constant updates which makes the Inventor better. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Impossibility to open data created in new version directly in older versions. Yes, it`s possible with the AnyCAD but the data are dead (like a STEP file - no metadata). **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing optomechanical designs and laser facility assemblies. Very good tool for smaller assemblies but have an issues with the larger assemblies. ### 36. Great Product for students and industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rusty W. | Engineering and Technology Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** One of the things I like best about Inventor for teaching high school students is that there are lots of resources available and Autodesk provide support as well as free educational software. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** All parts that I work with work well and I **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything from basic sketches to multi file assemblies. Students are able to create products from beggining to end. ### 37. Professional Software.. well sort-of **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** In General Inventor is great at being able to get the design intent across. Having things drawn in 3D really helps in seeing how all the parts of a design will come together. Inventor has got better at handling large assemblies both on the model side and the documentation (idw) side. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Given below in no particular order.... just a few things that come to mind. 1. Not having a viewer that others can use that does not require a download. 2. Not having a way to create a deployment for the components of the suite I want to install. 3. The "new" color of the icons in 2020. Looks like a kid designed it. Bring back the icon colors pre 2020. 4. Not being able to get an accurate 3D PDF of a weldment when there is machining involved. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Make sure it is right for you. I do a lot of mechanical design and sometimes it is just tough just getting everything roughed out just to know where to start, For that sometimes I will still use Autocad and do it in 2D just to get going. 3D is great, but if you are trying to get a quick layout sometimes doing it in 2D is faster. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have started to use the "sheet metal" more in Inventor. It gives us an accurate way to generate the flat pattern most of the time. ### 38. The program is intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig C. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Where to bend bent parts works extremely well! **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Some Add-ins should be made a part of Inventory -- without it being necessarily called something else (This is only a minor point). **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** AutoDesk has been around a long time and it is intuitive-- for that reason Inventor is a great choice! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Controlling part quality by drawing in 3 dimensions. The manufacturing process is clear because it is using 3 dimensions. ### 39. Great User Friendly program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like how you can hover over items with your mouse and it tells you what the tools do. I really like the keyboard short cuts. I wish there were more for the tools I use. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Sometimes it's slow when opening a big file but computer can't help that. I don't like how to attach balloons to a balloon you have to click multiple times. I wish it was attach balloon and hold shift down to attach multiple balloons. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Play around with the tutorials. Then compete with your friends or coworkers on who makes the most realistic and actual size of an object like a cup or something everyone has. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved alignment of holes using 3D design on inventor. I realized measure tool is the most useful to created two objects to align. ### 40. I'm a reseller that works with Inventor everyday and consult with customers on project. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete S. | Implementation Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the parametric design aspects which can be greatly enhanced with iLogic. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I wish the performance in Factory Design layouts didn't bog down so much. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Get training to make sure that you learn to use the software most effectively. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lots of design automation and consistency with design. Content Center and iLogic allow my customers to be more consistent. ### 41. The best to realize your most impressive ideas to realize **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I began to review the inventor program by recommendation, to be able to solve some problems of unique parts to solve problems of parts for machinery and circuits and in a few months I could understand it and work it and get the best out of it. It has served us to carry out the studies of resistance of materials and has given us a good result since we can see where errors will occur and correct before realizing them in real pieces. We have been testing its software for third-dimensional prints and it is really fascinating to see all that details all over the piece, the program is always surprising you with its updates or the help of the communities that handle it that give good recommendations. And once these pieces have been obtained, the factory is sent for processing. The use of the program decreases that human factor that gives the probability of error. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Actually I can not realize negative aspects of the program since all I have been able to see is benefits to develop jobs what we could talk about something negative is the cost of the package that could be very high but I consider that its benefit will return to you without problem. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** The recommendation that you could give to colleagues who use this program is that inventor is the best thing they can use to carry out all those things you need to take those projects to a high level to be able to verify all those feet before sending them to do them in physical with all That security is well done. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The company has made parts such as gears for robots, robotic arms and work tables. And this software has allowed us to know what the performance of the final piece or the performance of a certain structure will be. It is important for us to know what is the maximum resistance in the pieces made that can withstand the use to which they will be subjected and to be able to establish the limits of breakage. ### 42. Inventor Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I really like the ability to modify and write custom code to make Inventor operate the way you want it to. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Unwanted crashes, Limit of new options that are needed. They seem to get put on the back burner. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is a great 3D modeling software with multiple advantasges for FEA, Sheet Metal flat patterns. You have the ability to create driven models and drawings from forms with the use of the incorporated Ilogic browser and VBA. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on a form driven model and creating the drawings automatically with Ilogic / API ### 43. Inventor through time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian D. | CAD Adsministrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** As I tell the group I administer, Inventor just works. They have seen this as Creo does not . **What do you dislike about Inventor?** That it crashes or is crashing and it tells you nothing or what is happening as it is doing nothing **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** As CAD admin, Inventor makes it easier than our other CAD software (Creo) as its ease of use ### 44. Preferred Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo S. | Engineer level II, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Its always ahead of the curve with ease of use, As a designer, retailed and eventually an engineer this software has helped me built my career. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** It's hard to use when overlapping with pointclouds. Normally I have to use a separate software to show it overlapped. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Its better than solid works when it comes to organization, and Autodesk offers more software that you can do more accurate simulations. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me ensure that what I design is safe and usable, it also gives my client a 3D layout instead of 2D some people can't visualize a project unless is parametric. ### 45. Sr. Electrical Designer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The ease of including a really detailed drawing details. Easy to draw our electrical drawings for our substations. We do have only a few drawings but it has already been very easy to accomodate to our new employees who are just starting. ... **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Not much to dislike. ............................................................................................. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are solving clearance issues for our electrical equipment that exist in the field. we have a lot if old existing substations. in the field and are always in need of new or replacement of equipment. collaboration is very easy to go from department to other departments. ### 46. Best 3d tool to work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It's the best 3d modelling software generally I use it for part modelling and to export it into step files for importing into other software.the options for doing features like chamfer and fillet radius are very handy and useful.it is having agood UI AND GRAPHICS. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** It could me more fluid and should be more fast do that productivity will increase **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** It's good software with easy to handle and simple UI. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** 3d modelling and some model for my presentation and for exporting model to step format. ### 47. Inventor is great and keeps the company going **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel E. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** powerful tool for large assemblies, i use the sheet metal tool which is great. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I can't think of any, it seems to be able to do anything i want it to **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** watch lots of videos and do tutorials, just jump in **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been building extended support arms. It allowed me to easily test strengths ### 48. Inventor User Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like how powerful and easy the software is to use. The design accelerators help to create designs. I also use ReCap Pro, Inventor allows me to attach the file to the model and build in a virtual world. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I don't like the instability. Many times Inventor hangs, or crashes and I lose work. Save often to avoid losing work. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventor is allowing us to create new products, in combination with a point cloud, to ensure accurate design that will fit. We also tackle new product design problems by using Inventor. ### 49. World class software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The most comprehensive 3D mechanical CAD software money can buy. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Download & update manager could be a bit more intuitive/friendly; otherwise, nothing. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Company (Autodesk) is world class and industry leading. It's innovation, reputation, and global reach make Inventor a clear choice over Solidworks. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have been using Inventor since it came out. Design time to finished product is industry leading. All of our external machine shops are realizing the power of 3D by leveraging 3D files from Inventor. ### 50. Powerful Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I come from actually being on the shop floor manufacturing or products and moved into design. I loved working down there and using my hands. Was I live about inventor is that I feel like I am still actually building our products. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** There isn’t anything that I haven’t liked. It can be a bit overwhelming at times but the more familiar I become with it the more I love it. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find that it’s just much more accurate in the design process for our products ## Inventor Discussions - [How do I ensure my weldments always accept weld at their interactions.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-ensure-my-weldments-always-accept-weld-at-their-interactions) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Am I using it correctly, space planning, fit issues, some structural loading forces](https://www.g2.com/discussions/am-i-using-it-correctly-space-planning-fit-issues-some-structural-loading-forces) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What are some of the best practices for students working in groups to use Inventor?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-some-of-the-best-practices-for-students-working-in-groups-to-use-inventor) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How do you handle the data creation problem?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-handle-the-data-creation-problem) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to balloon multiple items?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15670-what-is-the-best-way-to-balloon-multiple-items) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Inventor pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/inventor/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-03+10%3A12%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8b20df6e-2c96-4812-a73e-726e22eae852&secure%5Btoken%5D=c6b532b93a8b1505dacee663811a8e7bbe89476f25710695649dfad5d69f4d9b&format=llm_user) ## Inventor Integrations - [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-acrobat/reviews) - [Autodesk Alias](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-alias/reviews) - [Autodesk Vault](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-vault/reviews) - [Design Review](https://www.g2.com/products/design-review/reviews) ## Inventor Features **Design** - Drawing - Modeling - Visualize - Rendering **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Rendering Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Text Editing Tools **Edit** - File Import - Push/Pull - Views - Grips **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **File Options - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Export Files - Import Files - File Interoperability - Backwards compatibility - File size **Collaboration** - Annotate - Documentation - Data Extract **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Customization - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Custom Commands - Custom Scripts - Custom Menus - Custom Interface **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity **Environment - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Hardware support - Task-based interfaces - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Inventor Alternatives - [Onshape](https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (712 reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (630 reviews) - [Designcenter Solid Edge](https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter-solid-edge/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (608 reviews)