Overview

What you can do with the collection

Quickly create complete product models

From a single part to massive assemblies, intuitively model and document your products with professional-grade 3D parametric design capabilities and 2D drafting toolsets.

Highly efficient production lines start here

Conceptualize production line layouts using familiar 2D workflows that can be automatically converted into detailed 3D models, helping inform critical design decisions.

Introduction to the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

See how powerful CAD, CAM, and CAE tools come together in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. Join our technical experts as they guide you through some popular use cases.

Communicate your idea with stunning visualizations

Clearly convey your design with high-fidelity imagery and animations generated directly from your 3D model for use in design reviews, documentation, and sales and marketing collateral.

Streamline the move to manufacturing

Create efficient processes that help you seamlessly transition from design to manufacturing with integrated tools for generating multi-axis toolpaths and sheet metal nests.

Consider all design alternatives

Generative design capabilities let you create multiple, production-ready design options, and review tradeoffs in materials, performance, cost, and manufacturing processes.

Push the boundaries for better products

Extend product capabilities, improve efficiency, and prevent failures with advanced performance simulation built on the Autodesk Nastran solver.

Introduction to generative design

Generative design technology is available to any user of the collection. Learn how you can solve complete design and engineering challenges in hours—not days or weeks.

Evaluate factory projects before you build

Remove bottlenecks in the process with discrete-event simulation capabilities, and in the installation using clash detection between the as-is state and proposed production line designs.

Evaluate the cost of dimensional variation

Balance mechanical fit and performance with the cost of tighter tolerances based on an analysis of the cumulative dimensional variation between mating geometry.

Connect your 2D and 3D design tasks

Combine the capabilities of 2D and 3D CAD to integrate electromechanical models, conceptualize designs, and speed up the creation of drawings and documentation.

Manage all that data in less time

Control your intellectual property in a single location, making it easy to collaborate with your colleagues. Securely share data externally to simplify and speed-up review cycles.

Best practices for large-scale design projects

See how the collection can help bring all of your 2D and 3D data from multiple disciplines, as well as point cloud data, into one complete model.

Speak the many dialects of CAD and BIM

Reference models created in other CAD or BIM applications that update anytime the original files are changed. Prepare BIM objects of your product models for delivery to your clients.

Collaborate effectively on large scale design projects

Aggregate design data from multiple sources to perform reviews of large scale designs. Check for clashes, simulate installation, and centralize communication between stakeholders.

Custom configuration to customer specifications

Create a custom product configurator using a powerful, simple-to-use automation engine that captures engineering knowledge, preserving your time for value-added projects.

Make compliance automatic for the team

Automate templates for parts, assemblies, and drawings to reduce errors, save time, and make it easy to follow company standards.

Save time on custom product configuration

Manually modifying designs to meet customer specifications can drain engineering resources. Watch this webinar to learn how you can setup a product configurator and extend it to your sales team.

Accelerate design validation and manufacturing

Speed up downstream processes by automating routine tasks involved in simulation setup in Inventor Nastran and toolpath strategies in Inventor CAM.

Automate true-shape nesting

Generate multiple sheet nests to reduce raw material waste, and produce comparison reports to review overall efficiency, total cost, and machining time.