Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection is a set of professional-grade applications that seamlessly connect with Inventor to validate, optimize, and prepare your designs for manufacturing. Extend beyond 3D design by enabling associative workflows that support tolerance analysis, advanced simulation, production system design, CAM, and nesting–directly in Inventor. Connected applications combine 2D and 3D workflows, enable large scale design reviews, and integrate point cloud data. All while securely managing the data at the center of your process. Inventor and Fusion 360 together help you explore more design alternatives and accelerate production. Unite your teams throughout the entire product development process with the collection.

People who benefit from the collection

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Designer/Engineer

  • Using specialized tools in Inventor, automate the 3D modeling of your ideas so you can focus on design instead of CAD.
  • Fully understand and validate your designs with powerful and accurate simulation tools that are integrated in your familiar Inventor interface for ease of use.
  • Instead of spending hours or days coming up with a few design ideas, let the software find hundreds of them in a fraction of the time, all of which satisfy your criteria for a good design.

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Factory Layout Designer

  • Plan your factory layout in 2D and 3D
  • Check for bottlenecks in the system and optimize your factory layout before any equipment is installed

CAE

CAE

  • Perform advanced FEA studies that require nonlinear material models and dynamic loading conditions.
  • Better collaborate with designers as you review existing preliminary studies and create new ones in the same familiar interface

CAM

CAM

Produce high-quality CNC machined parts and create toolpath strategies in one integrated software application
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Engineering Manager/Owner

  • Cultivate innovation in your design and engineering teams by automating your processes which provides time for research and development.
  • Promote design automation tools in your entire product development cycle to reduce repetitive tasks and get your product to market faster.
  • Save on machine costs as you analyze tolerance stack-ups in your assemblies

Included software

What the tools in the PDMC can do for you

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Inventor®

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation
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Inventor® Nastran®

(available only in the collection)
CAD-embedded software for non-linear stress, thermal, vibration, and fatigue simulation
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Inventor® Tolerance Analysis®

(available only in the collection)
CAD-embedded software for non-linear stress, thermal, vibration, and fatigue simulation
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Inventor® Nesting

(available only in the collection)
True shape nesting software for Inventor to optimize yield from raw material
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Inventor® CAM

(available only in the collection)
Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor
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AutoCAD®

2D and 3D CAD software, including specialized toolsets for mechanical, electrical, and more
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Fusion

Cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM/CAE for end-to-end product design and manufacturing
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Vault

Product data management software to manage design files and track revisions
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Factory Design Utilities

(available only in the collection)
Factory design software to plan, design, and install an efficient production layout
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Navisworks®

Manage Large-scale design review software with clash detection and scheduling
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3ds Max®

3D rendering and animation software for design visualization
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ReCap Pro

Reality capture and 3D scanning software and services
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HSMWorks

(available only with a Fusion 360 sub./which is in the collection)
Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for SOLIDWORKS
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Autodesk Rendering

Rendering Fast, high-resolution renderings in the cloud
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Autodesk® Drive

CAD-aware cloud storage for individuals and small teams