When a user is creating a new sketch using the line tool, having an option to adjust the time the mouse button is held down before it triggers the create of an arc would be great. And/Or the option to turn it off. This could be on the sketch tab of the application options. Similar to the "Selection" on the "General Tab" Show More

The new way to show prompts on a command seems great but I propose it goes into expanded menu.   Show More

I would like to request an improvement in the Inventor API related to creating section views from model sketches. In the Inventor UI, the workflow is possible and very useful:   Create a sketch in a part or assembly document. Include that model sketch into a drawing view. Select the included sketch in the drawing view. Create a section view from that selected sketch. This works manually, and the workflow is valuable because the section line is based on the model sketch. If the model sketch changes, the drawing view can continue to reflect the intended design logic.   However, the same workflow does not seem to be fully reproducible through the API.   Currently, from the API side, I can find the PlanarSketch in the part or assembly document and include it in the drawing view by using DrawingView.SetIncludeStatus. After that, I can also retrieve the related drawing curves through DrawingView.DrawingCurves(modelSketch).   The problem is that DrawingViews.AddSectionView requires a DrawingSketch, not a model PlanarSketch or the drawing curves returned from the included sketch. The included model sketch cannot be cast to a DrawingSketch.   A possible workaround is to:   Include the model sketch in the drawing view. Read the resulting DrawingCurveSegment geometry, start points, and end points. Create a new DrawingSketch inside the drawing view. Manually recreate the section line geometry in that sketch. Pass the new DrawingSketch to AddSectionView. However, this workaround breaks associativity.   The manually recreated DrawingSketch is no longer linked to the original model sketch. Therefore, if the model sketch dimensions, position, or geometry are changed later, the section line used by the drawing section view will not update accordingly. In that case, the API can technically create a section view, but it cannot reproduce the same associative workflow that is available in the Inventor UI. This would be very useful for automated drawing generation workflows, especially when section lines are already defined parametrically in the model. In our case, section line sketches are created in part or assembly documents as part of the design logic. When drawings are generated automatically, we need to use those same sketches to create section views while keeping the link to the model sketch. Without this API support, we have to manually recreate the geometry in the drawing sketch, which removes the connection to the original model sketch and makes the drawing less robust when the model changes. In short, Inventor already supports this workflow in the UI. It would be very helpful if the API could support the same associative workflow as well.   Show More

Is it possible to expand the project dropdown list?   Show More

Presets are a great functionality to apply various settings to features. Unfortunately, there is currently no public API available for creating, selecting, or applying any Presets programmatically. In my specific case, I need to apply a set of propüerties to an assembly through BIM-Content - Include Properties, but I'm sure there would be diverse other applications throughout Inventor starting from applying a set of parameters to a hole to generating different simplifications with different levels of detail to whatever is possible with a preset. So appling a preset, that could easily be deployed to a users machine through the API would provide a powerful tool for many use-cases. Please take into consideration as a future API-Improvement. Thank you, Tobias Show More

Although we can create model states within our sheet metal parts, apparently the flat pattern created is only of the primary model state part.  In some instances, we make a left or right hand version, yet as things currently are, the flat pattern will only apply to the one considered primary.  Some sheet metal parts may also include or omit certain holes or features.   The ability to have a flat pattern per model state version would be the best solution for utilizing model states in sheet metal parts. Show More

Current limitation: In part files with multiple model states, sketches can report missing references even when the related feature is suppressed in the active model state. This creates false error states and complicates multi-variant design workflows.   Proposed solution: Inventor should allow sketch dependencies to be evaluated per model state, or automatically ignore references that belong only to suppressed features in the active state.   Benefit: This would reduce false reference errors, improve model-state stability, and make variant-based parts easier to manage. Show More

It would be amazing if you could window select solids when cutting with an extrusion.  I'm often having to click many times to select up to 100 solids, and it would be far easier to be able to window select them.  You can window select to remove solids/components when simplifying, but not when cutting with an extrusion? Show More

Having a calculator built into the measure tool would be amazing. Having to switch out of the window to open up the OS calculator is a pain!   To start off, just a simply manual input calc would do. Further down the line maybe the measure tool itself could serve as the inputs being able to select that "measure input" by a button in the UI of the measure tool.  Show More

Hi everyone, When you open a part directly from an assembly, Inventor always resets the view to the part's default orientation — which can be disorienting when you're trying to inspect or work on something you were just looking at in the context of the assembly. What this rule does: OPEN IN POSITION lets you click on any part inside an assembly and open it as a standalone document while preserving the exact camera orientation you had in the assembly view. The part opens showing the same angle, the same perspective — as if you just "zoomed in" to it. Show More

Currently, when using the "Pack & Go" feature from an Assembly (.iam) or a Part (.ipt), Inventor does not automatically search for and include all the associated drawing files (.idw / .dwg) unless they are strictly in the same folder or through complex project search paths. This often results in incomplete packages when sending files to suppliers or archiving projects, forcing users to rely on time-consuming manual workarounds. I propose adding a dedicated, native checkbox in the Pack & Go dialog box called "Include all related drawings PLM Search". Show More

I don't know if anyone else is seeing this happen when either opening a part or assembly from with in a Drawing, and also when opening a Subassembly from within the higher assembly, it also happens when opening from the normal open a start-up, or using the file open option from the menu, and it take quite a bit longer as opposed to 2016.     It looks as if Inventor is calling up the Artificial Idiot with ever open action instead of calling the AI as and when wanted/needed by the user, can we get an option to disable this action and ONLY call the AI as and when needed/wanted and not every timer we open or create a file as is doth annoying and wasting time, CPU and memory resources Show More

Especially when working with different (nested) model states this results in a quite un-intuitive mess more often than not.   To my understanding: Uncheck Visibility: Component is still loaded and calculated in memory, but can not be seen Check Suppress: Component is not loaded nor caclulated (and of course can not be seen) → If it is not calculated, why are the attached constraints still un-suppressed then (occasionally worsening the resolve of the CSP [constraint satisfaction problem] for no reason)?   Current Behaviour: When a component gets suppressed, all the attached constraints stay un-suppressed and Inventor fails quite frankly to solve some of these.   Expected behaviour: When a component gets suppressed, all the attached constraints should be suppressed too (by default or at least by choice).   Note: If I wanted constraints of suppressed components still to be resolved and just wanted to get rid of the components appearance, I would just choose visibility for that, not suppress.     Show More

When skeleton modelling, I use different sketches to define different bodies and their features in a multibody part. Those bodies are converted into parts in an assembly, with the command 'Make Components'. When creating a drawing of a part (which in essence is a derived part), I'd like to retrieve the dimensions used to create that part. But when right clicking on a view, selecting 'Retrieve Model Annotations', after selecting the option 'Select Parts' and select a part in a view, ALL the dimensions used for the entire multibody part are previewed, which is a total clutter of dimensions (see picture below). If you select 'Select Feature' nothing is displayed for a derived part (because the features aren't in the derived part).   It would be really nice to be able to iterate through the different sketches inside that multibody part in that function 'Retrieve Model Annotations' that define the features and preview the dimensions used in a particular sketch in that part, after which you select the dimensions needed in the drawing. Cluttered dimensions Show More

In Inventor we have only the ability to design only circular gears not bevel gears, worm gears, gear rack, etc. Can you introduce them all in the Gear Component Generator.  Show More

Love the Display Separate Colors feature in the assembly environment of Inventor Professional 2026.   How about enabling that feature within a part file, when it's multi-body? Show More

BACKGROUND: Sometimes, to keep drawings from being less cluttered, we will use balloon leaders to have one balloon pointing to multiple occurrences of the same part.   This is handy, but the balloon properties are driven by the first/primary leader, and as far as I'm aware Inventor does not have any built-in checks to ensure any subsequent leaders have the same properties. As a result, the following scenarios are possible:   - User mistakenly puts the leader on a different part from the primary, so that part is called out with the wrong balloon - User changes one of the parts, and as a result one or more of the parts connected through leaders to the balloon no longer matches     IDEA: Add error checks to catch when parts attached to non-primary balloon leaders do not have the same properties as the part attached to the primary leader (specifically, whatever properties are displayed by the balloon, other properties don't matter).   This would be implemented by flagging such discrepancies as sick on the drawing space and in Design Doctor.   Show More

For example, when making a rectangular hole pattern along an edge of a part, it would be nice to be able to input an end offset to a plane or vertex when using the "fitted" option. So the last hole of the pattern isn't on or past the edge of the part but a certain distance before the edge of the part (which most people want 9/10 times). Show More

In the assembly environment, I think it would be helpful to have the number of selected occurrences displayed. Typical steps: Click on a part/assembly in the graphics window or model browser -> Right-Click -> Selection -> Select All Occurrences.  . . . now while all occurrences are selected the number of occurrences could be displayed, perhaps in the status bar. (e.g. "Count: #") This would be useful as a quick sanity check instead of having to open the Bill of Materials to check quantities. Thanks Andro Show More