I have a top level assembly where I have placed a subassembly and made a pattern out of that. I would like to be able to open it directly from the graphic window.    If it would have been a part, then I could just change selection filter and it would work. But if it is a patterned subassembly there is no way to achieve this. I have to go to the browser and dig into the occurence. Show More

As a mechanical designer working extensively with complex injection-molded plastics for the past 15 years, dealing with massive fillet operations (often involving hundreds of edges for draft angles and mold release) is a daily routine. However, there is a fundamental flaw in how Inventor provides visual feedback during this process.   Currently, when selecting multiple edges for a fillet, Inventor highlights all selected edges in the chosen active selection color (e.g., Pink).   If one or several of those edges fail mathematically—due to micro-segments, overlapping geometry, or tight corners — the preview still shows the failing edges as highlighted in the exact same selection color. Inventor’s ShapeManager clearly knows which edges are failing in the background, but the UI visually "lies" to the user by keeping them the same color as the healthy edges.   As demonstrated in my attached screenshots: Image 1: Shows a successful selection of multiple edges (all Pink). Image 2: Shows the same selection, but with an added edge that will crash the fillets. Notice how all edges, including the failing one, are still perfectly Pink. Image 3: After clicking OK, the error dialogue informs me that "9 of the 455 selected edges cannot be blended".   The Current Workaround: We all know the workarounds. We use "Accept successful blends" to push the feature through and then manually hunt down the remaining sharp edges, or we divide the selection into dozens of smaller edge sets. But these are tedious workarounds for what should be basic UI feedback.   The Solution: Please introduce real-time color-coding for failing edges during the active Fillet command. If an edge fails the mathematical calculation, its selection highlight should immediately turn RED (or a specific user-defined error color) directly in the canvas.   Stop forcing users to play detective. Let the software visually flag the exact edge that is causing the problem before we even hit "OK". This minor UX adjustment would save an enormous amount of troubleshooting time for anyone working with complex surface geometry.   Best regards Filip Show More

When you place a bolted connection, there should be a tick box for Lock Rotation. Currently when you select multiple concentric holes, the whole pattern is free to rotate around the initial hole selection. I then need to add another constraint, usually another concentric constraint to another one of the bolts in order to prevent rotation. The rotation lock should be selected by default.   Also even if you only place a single bolted connection (one hole), rotation is still allowed for that one bolt. This is particularly annoying when using the display degrees of freedom tool. I go to view inside an assembly and turn on degrees of freedom, and proceed to add constraints to my assembly no more glyphs appear. However the view is always muddied by all the free rotation glyphs of the bolted connections. Honestly it would be even better if the degrees of freedom tool just gave me a signal that the assembly was is fully constrained. Even a little note in the corner that reads fully constrained, so I don't have to do a visual check for glyphs. Show More

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

Turning off textures in the model viewport (View > Appearance > Textures) not control what the shaded drawing view renders. The textures still appear in the shaded drawing view. I like to have the capability to disable the visibility of textures in drawing views. Show More

Please add the option to split the list into several equal parts, as this is currently very difficult to do with a long list. Thank you Show More

Now you are able to quickly switch background color in the menu without going to application options. It would be nice if you could save "presets" that stores both background color but also shadow settings, lights, perspective view etc. so you could easily switch. For example have a ready made preset for instruction manuals or screenshots.  Show More

Hello, I would like to know if it would be possible to add a Split-Body capability to the Trim and Extend function for frame structures. The idea would be that, instead of modifying both intersecting bodies, the selected frame member would be split into multiple bodies at the intersection, while the other member would remain unchanged and act only as the trimming reference. This would save a lot of time when working with frames. I would no longer need to create additional sketch lines in the skeleton model or perform multiple trim operations. Being able to split a frame member directly within the Trim/Extend command would make the workflow much more efficient.     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

When balloon is active, and meanwhile hovering on partslist; highlighting parts may be a good choice.   When ballooning is active, and hovering on part highlights the row on partslist but opposite is not.     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

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

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

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

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

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

When we need an interactive model presentation we have two solutions: 1) We can make a video inside Inventor; 2) We export the Assembly to an other programs like 3D max then to 3D game engine to add interactivity to a parts. For example, the robotic arm rotate up when I press a button. Why you cannot add a specif module to a program to do this interactivity. Think you. Show More