One of my ongoing inefficiencies in daily Inventor workflow is navigating the ribbon to find the right tools. While Inventor provides powerful functionality, a significant amount of time is spent:
- Switching between ribbon tabs
- Searching for tools across different environments
- Rebuilding custom ribbons as workflows evolve
Inventor does allow manual ribbon customization and other workflow optimizations, but in practice this becomes difficult to maintain across tasks and software updates, and becomes outdated or incomplete over time.
Introduce an AI‑driven adaptive ribbon system that learns from user behavior and optimizes tool access.
This system would:
- Track tool usage patterns over time
- Identify frequently used commands and workflows
- Automatically generate a personalized ribbon tab
Create context-specific sub‑ribbons based on:
-Part modeling
-Assembly workflows
-Drawing/detailing tasks
This feature would significantly improve efficiency by reducing UI friction and adapting Inventor to the way engineers actually work, rather than forcing users to adapt to the UI. It would also be a great test bed for future workflow and usability optimizations by leveraging AI. I consider this idea a good near timeline possible win for AI.
If this would improve your workflow, please vote — I’m curious how many others spend time hunting through ribbon tabs like this.
I appreciate the teams time to consider this idea in more detail.
