by Shaun Griffiths
Introduction:
Inventor 2025 is available now, with a series of enhancements to improve your user experience. These include easier to use sheet metal property panels and more streamlined pattern generation within sketches, parts and assemblies. You will also find new features and styles for stronger alignment with international standards, such as drill points and annotations. In addition, interoperability has also been improved to provide better data translation from IFC files and export to previous releases of Revit.
Parts:
Sheet metal
The property panel user interface has been included for improved sheet metal user experience, present in features such as “Face” and “Flange” (no more hidden options).
You can now also benefit from direct manipulation of Flange features using in model arrows.
Hole Feature
Hole drill point options have been increased to include Flat W, Angle V and Angle Y, with depth dimension visibility in model.
Derived Parts
When simplifying geometry, you can now choose to generate a simplified cylinder using Oriented Bounding Cylinder (no more boxes for shafts). This is also available for simplified assemblies.
Finish Feature
The previous selection option within the finish feature has been replaced with an include and exclude for faces and bodies.
You can also select appearances, along with finishes and their associated parameters when deriving parts or making components.
There are also additional improvements that can be found on the Autodesk website including:
- Show extended names for finish types
- Quick access to XML folder location
- Inclusion of mirrored finishes in assemblies
- And many more
Patterns
You can also now generate boundary-based Feature patterns that occur within a region (his is also available in the sketch environment).
Assemblies:
Bolted Connections
Bolted Connections can now follow assembly patterns such as assembly rectangular pattern.
Presentations
Within presentations source model references can be replaced, similar to the drawing environment.
Drawings
Annotations
Diameter and Radius dimension extension lines can now be hidden using the right click option.
You can also colour block behind dimension text to make the dimension value more visible.
Item properties from the parts list can also be included in text so that any changes in data can be updated.
View and Styles
Break lines can now be set at the edges of crop views.
Updates have also been made to styles and standards in areas such as the surface texture symbol, where it can now be defined to suit the ISO 21920-1 standard.
Sketch
iProperties can be added to a sketch as geometry text.
Interoperability
Workflows between Inventor and Revit have been improved for better collaboration with features such as the below.
Save or simplify to previous versions of .RVT.
IFC import allows selection of what and how data elements can be imported.
Image provided by Autodesk
Conclusion:
This release of Inventor provides a series of tools and features that provide more streamlined workflows and an improved user experience with enhanced user interfaces and data translations. These are but a selection of the improvements that can be found in the 2025 release of Inventor.
For more information feel free to contact us at Cadline or visit the Autodesk website.