--- 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: '2026-08-04' 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. Practical software to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** karime V. | Ingeniero de proyecto, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It is a fast and easy-to-learn program where you can visualize 3D elements and perform calculations. You can export 3D files to other programs or 2D plans to AutoCAD. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Unfortunately, there are few academies that teach it, and sometimes it is not practical to use when the geometric shapes are very complicated because the constraints **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Structures are easily calculated ### 2. One of the best mechanical design tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mario s. | Mechanical engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Its a helpful tool for me ( i am mechanical engineer) for making designs of products, taking into account the production, geometry, assembly, simulation of the materials, stress analisys and very other functions while i am developing in a friendly and smooth 3d interface. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The render function of a object in the program can be a lot better, it can simulate the materials but the appereance dont look as real as can be with other softwares. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** i can design a object form cero, check geometries, check and make assemblies, make renders for presentations, generate layouts and so on, its a very complete software. ### 3. Amazing and powerful tool. **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?** For me iLogic and the power to automate assembly models has made my job easy. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** No center click orbit without holding down the shift key. This requires me to use both hands so I have to put my coffee down. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** If you're looking to automate your product there is a wonderful community on the forums (supported with Autodesk employees) to help you figure every step. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Much of what I create I've automated to the point that what took me a days is down to hours if not minutes. ### 4. Great Product - Needs a little more improvements to be the best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It is very versatile and can easily be interchanged with other platforms especially within BIM. Very user friendly and can easily be customized to work with any projects and custom configurations. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** It still has to go that last mile in being able to make highly intensive and heavy detailing. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do day-to-day designing with Inventor and always has requirements to continue the modeling in Revit. The default rfa export completes the cycle and helps me save a lot of time and just keep going with the flow. ### 5. Inventor flexibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the flexibility of being able to design anything in Inventor. I do mechanical design, but I also do some architectural designs too. since I know Inventor well I do everything in Inventor. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I have not run into anything I do not like. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Get training! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I am trying new concepts out I will use Inventor to try the various ideas until I find the one I like. The benefit of narrowing the designs down to the one design that works save so much time down stream. ### 6. Innovative product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** My favorite part about inventor is that every year they are coming out with new features that help improve my productivity at work. Many company’s have become stagnant in there design but autodesk is always striving to do more. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I think there is still lots of improvements for automation in assembly constraints that would save lots of time. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Give it a try. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design machinery. The ability to take an idea from your head and put it in a model for everyone to see and understand. ### 7. Modelling with Autodesk Inventor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It is a best mechanical CAD 3D software with huge capabilities to do fast and efficient modelling with help of various tools present. It will also do finite element analysis once we finish with modelling. We can also do CAM operations like cutting using HSM tool. Therefore it is combination of all CAD, CAE and CAM. It also got awesome graphics and rendering is very good. It is very easy to use compared to other CAD softwares **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Recently they changed from lifetime licence package to annual package which will cost more over the time. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Guys this is best software in market where you get integration of all three CAD, CAE and CAM **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I currently used it for axle and suspension design. ### 8. Good software, but missing some key things and it's hard to find up to date documentation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan R. | Automation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** iLogic. Game changing ability to automate repetitive tasks and customize parts, prints, and solutions automatgically **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Documentation. Hard to find current documentation and there's a lot of old (and wrong) documentation still floating around. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Massive improvements in time to create custom solutions by using iLogic to automate many tasks ### 9. Beginner User and Loving It **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I love the freedom to design whatever you'd like in 3d. And to have a reality based model that can help streamline your CAD processes and provide better quality drawings and eliminate user error from BOM **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Inventor is not drafter friendly! I wish it would implement the same drafting processes used in autocad. It would be much easier for skeletons and creating drawings. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We just started using Inventor for SDA (substation design automation). We are having problems that are mainly user-based... sick constraints/problems w/Vault, etc. ### 10. Inventor is a great tool! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gale S. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The ability to generate part or assembly models quickly and then generate drawings. The best part is when you make changes to the model the drawings update automatically. I also like to use the master part approach so you can change the base model parametrically to get revised new part and assembly models and drawings. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Difficult to automate design using the API. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Very intuitive software with power to take on most any field. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly fit problems but I also like the ability to analyze the model using FEA. ### 11. Long time Inventor User **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Starting in AutoCAD, I found that using Inventor was much more flexible and adaptable. I also like that there is such a variety of things that can be done with Inventor. Most recently, I have been using iLogic. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Inventor takes up a lot of space on your hard drive. Really, that's about it and I'm not even really concerned with that. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Excellent software. Consider implementing with vault, as well. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Inventor for fit ups, analysis, and creating parametric models and drawings. ### 12. Inventor is a great program **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The ease in which a 3D part can be made then incorporated into the assemblies. It also lets you make a part with ease from so many other programs as they are sent from outside sources. It is very user friendly for the novice and for the user who has been using from the first offering as I have. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The program does not let you save "backwards" into the previous versions of Inventor that other users are supplying. Not all companies can afford subscription updates so the drawings are not shareable from 2019 forward. Nor can parts from other programs be inserted as solids...they seem to always come as surfaces. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making molds has become a breeze. Benefits are the forums and help pages that AutodesK provides when we are stuck on an issues with performance. ### 13. Lead Designer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff M. | Lead Designer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Material and weight are east to do. Easy to export to CAD and to create PDF drawings to submit to the client. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Piping is not as easy as AutoCAD Plant 3D. Wish there was a way to auto connect piping components. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Take the time to learn the program **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Piping ### 14. Great solid modeling tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** bradley e. | CAD Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Having fea simulation built right in is probably the my favorite thing. The ability to do piping is also awesome. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The inability to open Solidworks files and recognize features and assembly constraints is a pain in the rear. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eliminating premature part failures by using simulation. ### 15. Autodesk Inventor Guru and Lead Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Using Inventor since born from Mechanical Desktop, I have seen each and every development of this tool, Also I have been the guru of Inventor for past 15 years.I have implemented Inventor and Vault and trained the team from scratch. I love this tool, in spite of know 5 other CAD tools, this is the only comfortable tool I used in my experience. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dont think there is anyt thing to complain aboth this tool **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Yes, Best easy Software to learn **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Engineering, Sales, Documentation and Manufacturing ### 16. I've been using Inventor for the 6 years that I have been engineering. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan W. | Mechanical Systems Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Bill of material features Basic iLogic features Marking menu **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The program crashes occasionally. iLogic needs an event trigger for print. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** If using Inventor purchase a 3D mouse **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick designs with accurate results. Simple to create 2D drawings when needed. Easy to present designs to customers. ### 17. great product. steep learning curve to do it right **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn W. | Principal, Utilities, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** good level of detail in our parts. great level of control on our outputs **What do you dislike about Inventor?** the learning curve, but that is really more on transition from 2d to 3d so its OK **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** building substations for large utility companies. gives us great control of our output ### 18. Powerful 2d and 3d drawing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It was very easy to learn and use by watching basic tutorials. I self thought myself to model basic sheet metal parts to then turn into assemblies and see how it looks and fits together in real time. What i really liked about it as well, when i had a complete assembly done, I could see how much it weighed (providing i had input the correct sheet metal parameters) and what the area was for painting. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** For someone like me in a smaller job shop it was a bit expensive, and it needed a very powerful computer to run. Otherwise the software is not very reliable ad crashed easy. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** It is a great product to take away the guessing game when manufacturing square to round transitions, or even tubular products. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I could draw up conveyor assemblies and cut them out and the parts fit together great. A key benefit, is also bends on sheet metals. It would take into consideration the growth at every bend. Also, when i hot dip galvanize some parts i cut and welded, i could easily get a quote what it would cost me. ### 19. Outstanding CAE package, but CAD functionality is cumbersome **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor has a robust set of tools for designing and engineering. The UX is streamlined really well, allowing ease from one task to the next. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** However, some of the most basic elements such as drawings seem to have been forgotten. Needles amount of steps are used to manage styles. Work becomes extremely tedious trying to get a drawing to look a certain way. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventor has given us more insight into how our services have adapted to a variety of dynamic machines. Because of that, we are able to streamline the processes and become future-ready, with Inventor ### 20. Inventor Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Freddie P. | Designer II, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the Tube and Pipe Functionality. That is the most useful part of Inventor for my industry. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** That inventor doesn't interact with Plant 3d. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** For tube and piping application there is nothing easier than Inventor. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pipe length calculation when using some meters. ### 21. Inventor, Amazing 3D modelling pro. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edger L. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** -Its a very perfect tool and very useful in structural field for production of mechanical drawings and modelling of Mechanical 3D models. -The product also has the ability in 2D drawings and documents production. It can also do rendering of various 3D models in some industries. -Easy to customize Inventor, from Menu, Ribbon rearranging, Key board shortcuts etc. Through this, different Engineers from different industries can customize Inventor to his/her working style depending on the field of work and the service to be produced. -Its a documents management software, which produces quality services for business marketing and also for presentation purposes -Inventor is very good product for collaboration, especially in projects with multiple users and it allows files Exporting. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Inventor is a great software, and apart from slow running when very much loaded like any other product, Inventor is perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is such a great and most appropriate product for production of Mechanical Engineering services and other services. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Quick designing and modelling of Mechanical documents and models. -Production clean and clear document for presentation -Improving the business production through different uses. ### 22. Inventor user since 1997 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles DOC P. | Designer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The features I like most are 3D modeling and real - time 2d project, adaptive features. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike that the platform doesn't include a spellcheck feature. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Inventor for real-time and accurately scaled models that can be easily distributed throughout the corporation. ### 23. Inventor has what you need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The feature of Inventor I like the best is its compatibility to be used with a wide variety of applications, such as sheet metal, tubing applications, or standard product design. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike the pop-up windows for each tool that is used- I prefer the locked-in toolbar view. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving problems involving fluidic pathways for medical device and industrial automation customers. We have seen benefits such as quick response time to customers, which has improved our customer's relationship with us. ### 24. Autodesk Inventor id Awesome!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the integration with autocad and the ability to make STL files for use with my 3D Printer **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I have nothing that I dislike so far as I have been able to easily use Inventor for work and home. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is a very good program for use with mechanical design along with the analysis function. Its also a great tool to use for 3D printing slicers as it exports in STL format. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps solve some manufacturing process with assembling parts. ### 25. Much improved over the last 10 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan H. | CNC programmer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Ribbon is well separated making it easy to find most tools. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Repeatablility in some instances is limited compared to Solidworks. Click and drag parts within the model window would be nice. Auto-constrain of some parts like bolts would help. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Great CAD package. Vault for this is the best out there. Shape library capabilities are spectacular. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-body part files helps a ton with miter-folded wood parts. They can be modeled in final shape and direct edited to look like they will off the machine. ### 26. Inventor for mechanical design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul M. | Assistant Professor of Practice, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The software allows for ease of design and documentation of mechanical assemblies. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** some of the database content does not actually follow the technical standards thus taking more time to design individual components. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are designing new automated machines for everyday operations. ### 27. CAD Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven F. | Drafter IV, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like that they have come a long way since from when i started using it. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike the importability from importing other platforms other than Autodesk products. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The customers needs are consistantly changing and this is help us keep up. ### 28. Productivity Power **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor's feature set and ease of use provides opportunities to be productive at every turn. Intuitive UI controls and lightning fast calculations make designing complex geometry a breeze. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** If I had to choose something that I dislike it would be that some options when exporting files to other CAD formats are not easy to find or documented as well as they could be. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complex geometry in small parts. Without Inventor we would still be drawing these in 2D. ### 29. Robust & Stable parametric modeling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Moving from from other parametric modeling software back into inventor, my favorite benefit is the stability of the software. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** iparts and configurations seem less intuitive/functional (without using the API) compared to competing software **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** use the community forums when you are stuck. They provide great support and generally the problem you are experiencing is already solved. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I teach the software to new users (college students). The built in tutorials are not as cleanly integrated into inventor as other products. ### 30. Great all around tool to work in for mechanical, analysis, and design. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry A. | Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Ease of Use, Easy to Learn, Very Intuitive **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Sometimes Speed is a factor on large assemblies **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Great product that you will make you productive while also enjoyable to use. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Machine design problems with structural shape, sheet metal and plastic ### 31. Powerful tool for Mechanical Design **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** More functions with rapid growth over last 20 years **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Newest 3D package compared to other 3D package **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Easy to learn and powerful enough to handle complicated design challenges **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product design and development for Meat processing machinery ### 32. super happy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** radu s. | Inventor Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** documenting the 3D models, easy to use, nice interface **What do you dislike about Inventor?** that i have to update every year and install different service packs from time to time **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** You are saving money using it **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** all kind of issues, it's my daily job ### 33. Inventor Product Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** The ability to use multiple assemblies and sub assemblies to create a model. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The stability of very large assemblies is terrible. The product should start being capable of housing hundreds of thousands of parts for certain engineering tasks with acceptable stability. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** BIM and clearance checking has become easier with Inventor. We have seen that if accurate model data is used and available we can see potential risks ahead of time vs using a 2D platform. ### 34. Inventor user for 13 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** scott h. | Sr, Mechanical Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** ease of use, and graphical layout, and customization options with ilogic **What do you dislike about Inventor?** random crashes with cryptic error messages **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** This is a robust and mature application **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** automation of curtain wall design with ilogic. automation is crucial for effective design ### 35. very powerful program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | Design engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** its intuitive use and collaborative ecosystem **What do you dislike about Inventor?** no live help, forums are clunky and often dont solve issues **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** take a community college course, this is a very intimidating computer program **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** not able to easily export cam work to x carve inventables, it isn't very user friendly to the lamen. animated export in exploded views usualy look grainy. I cant use i ton my laptop. in exploded view the most current snapshot isnt always updated and reflected in dwg ### 36. Inventor Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven L. | Engineering Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor is very useful tool for us in the development of our products. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Rendering sometimes is sluggish with complicated models or assemblies. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Great product for precision design. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a medical device company. ### 37. Inventor as a software with integrated simulation features **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Inventor is a powerful tool as a design CAD software mainly for its integrated Nastran simulation features. Very helpful and easy to modify/simplify geometry for analysis while maintaining true geometry for drawings **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Though the integrated nastran simulations are a huge benefit, it lacks the integration of a CFD space for integral thermal and flow models **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventor has helped to get quick analytical models to prove out quick r&d development projects ### 38. Ilogic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like ilogic because it has changed the way we do things ar Sauder Woodworking. We have made things more user friendly for the user and made things more standard. We also linked our manufacturing limits to our models via spreadsheets. We are just getting into the Inventor API but we are still new to using that. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike the dimensioning. Sometimes you have to go back and add members. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** manufacturing limits ### 39. Best MCAD product on the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Speed, ease of use. Loads of standard components out of the box, free. iLogic baked in, again part of the software at no additional charge. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Some of the older interfaces (which I know are being modernised, eg hole command is way better now) **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** It's awesome, get the right training and support and you won't look back **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do a lot of design optimization and product configuration using iLogic ### 40. New to Inventor but iLogic can be amazing! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly P. | Engineering Services Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** iLogic programming to add efficiency **What do you dislike about Inventor?** to new to know! hard to transition from AutoCAD to Inventor but getting there! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** removing tedious tasks using iLogic. Also using tube and pipe to automate a tedious workflow ### 41. Best experience of working on inventor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the most is sheet metal modelling with inventor. It is easy and adaptable for beginners also and u can create whatever sheet metal parts you want in inventor very fast. Assembly modelling is also good in inventor. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I mostly don't like the surface modelling and modify or we can say synchronous modelling on inventor. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is best for 3D modelling, assembly and drafting .You can satisfy your demands with inventor easily. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly solved the problem related sheet metal modelling and drafting problems. As per my experience with inventor, the Bills of Materials (BOM) creation is best in inventor. ### 42. Inventor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like the 3D modeling aspect of Inventor. The user interface is fairly user-friendly. It is easy to get started and yet there are a lot of additional features that can be grown into. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** We are currently in the process of converting our SolidWorks models and drawings to Inventor files. There seems to be a lot of issues with the process. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We will eventually be using the BOMS and items. ### 43. Used Inventor with the Dinosaurs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian S. | VP of Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** It doesn't crash anymore, user interface is great **What do you dislike about Inventor?** Design center is archaic, needs an update **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing a growler that keeps beer fresh. FEA, Revision control, surface modeling, lofts, sweeps, oh my! ### 44. A great program with many features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** I like that it has collision awareness in assembly models. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** I dislike weldments. I can never get welds to stick in certain models. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Inventor is a very powerful software with many uses. I would say researching all the different features and their uses is extremely helpful. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am designing hydraulic cylinders and I use the simulations as well as other features to optimize my products. ### 45. I love working in Inventor. Have roughly 7 years experience and have created several products. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoff H. | Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** That is tough. Probably the ability to use a part library to quickly generate assemblies, drawings and details. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** There is too much left for me to learn to dislike much. **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** Have used SolidWorks, in fact have my CSWP. Love Inventor the most! **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have brought two companies from 2D to 3D and have improved shop precision in doing so. Less problems when you have a 3D model to generate drawings from. ### 46. I love working with inventor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lune R. | product specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** then intuativeness of inventor, and the easy of use **What do you dislike about Inventor?** not all menu's have the same look and feel **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have reduced design time with 70 procent, by using ilogic, ### 47. i was certified in realese 2012 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** the ability of inventor to produce individual pieces and then combine into an assembly. also i like the capacity of inventor to do major jobs not only small manufacturer jobs. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** i dislike nothing is a good software. i recommed **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** learn it **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** i used inventor once to use planes to make my job to be place in the right coordinate, then i export the job to naviswork ### 48. Autodesk Inventor for computer-aided mechanical design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** What I like the most is Autodesk's ability to quickly improve Inventor and make it a good alternative against its competitors. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** some operations in sketch mode, and in modeling are somewhat more complex than in Solid Edge **Recommendations to others considering Inventor:** It is a very effective tool for designing mechanical parts, for studying their assembly, and for dynamically studying the moving parts of a mechanism. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design of mechanical parts and complete machinery. The Sheet Metal utility has been very useful for me to design parts through sheet metal bending. ### 49. very good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruce T. | engineering support, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** easy of use for new people with unbelievable features **What do you dislike about Inventor?** better help documentation and training videos **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** design and manufacturing of mechanical parts. Biggest benefit checking for clearance fits ### 50. Versatile product for Conception to Production **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Inventor?** Overall - it handles any need I've run into. The software has features in different aspects of modeling and manufacturing. **What do you dislike about Inventor?** The complexity of the licensing is not appreciated. Also, many changes are being made, to change the input/interface. Things were working fine, they didn't necessarily need to be changed. **What problems is Inventor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The sheet metal functionality saves a lot of time, not having to calculate anything manually. ## 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=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+08%3A39%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0a75e5ec-4521-40c5-91a4-89cb7db3badd&secure%5Btoken%5D=5b18c7706b357f9da457a6e46aa1d5a3ffd77550e324012dbc911adceb76b36e&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) - [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)