Autodesk Inventor 2013 Unveiled! 80+ New Features!

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Explore the new features of Autodesk Inventor 2013Autodesk Inventor 2013 is hot off the presses, and the ODP will be featuring a mini-post series that will describe them in-depth. The good, the bad, and the ugly –we’ll show them all. Some will be in normal post fashion, and some will include video to better show the new functionality. 

The new feature count for Autodesk Inventor 2013 is about 82 (I haven’t counted features only available in ‘Professional’ version or that are merely informational). The sketching environment received twice as many new features as any other environment, which I appreciate greatly. We will be in the sketch environment quite a bit in the Automated Cabinetry Blogtorial that will begins this Thursday (03-29-12) where we will be making the Layout Part –which also serves as the rigging for the modular components. There’ll be lot of sketching in that part by the time it’s complete!

I will be posting a little mini review of every single new feature over the coming months –some of which will be quite scintillating, and some of which will be as boring as watching grass grow. It’s all in what you do. If you model in a bottom up fashion (still), the assembly features (4) will be of utmost interest (yawn). If you are like me and model using a top down strategy, then you’re in luck. Between Sketching and Parts which dominate the Layout Part modeling schema, there are 36 new features –24 and 12 respectively.  

 

 

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Not to worry though……every new feature will be given it’s due respect. So without further ado, here is the list of New Inventor Features for 2013:

User Interface

  1. Enhanced Help Experience
  2. Welcome Screen
  3. Essential Videos
  4. Interactive Tutorials
  5. Create New File Dialog Box
  6. In-Command Marking Menu
  7. Context Sensitive Marking Menu
  8. User Defined Marking Menu
  9. Overflow Menu
  10. Enhanced Error Messages
  11. Default Application Options
  12. User Preferences

Sketch

  1. Origin Plane Display
  2. Set Sketch Scale by the First Dimension
  3. Create a Two-Point-Center Rectangle
  4. Create a Three-Point-Center Rectangle
  5. Dimension Arc Length
  6. Dynamically Trim Sketch Geometry
  7. Dynamically Extend Sketch Geometry
  8. 3D Move/Rotate Direct Manipulation
  9. 3D Sketch Mirror Command
  10. 3D Sketch Properties
  11. 3D Sketch Align to Plane
  12. Precise Input in 3D Sketch
  13. Control vertex Splines
  14. Drag 3D Sketch Geometry
  15. Equation Curves
  16. 2D Mirror Self Symmetric
  17. 2D Sketch Constraints
  18. Add User Parameter to Text
  19. Double-Click Sketch Text to Edit
  20. Find Sketch in Browser Using a Sketch Dimension
  21. Display of Fully Constrained Sketches
  22. Measure to Midpoint of a Segment
  23. Sketch Environment Status Bar
  24. Associative Sketch geometry Projection

Part

  1. Primitive Shape Creation
  2. Offset Base Solid
  3. Change Appearance for Multiple Features in One Step
  4. End of Part marker
  5. Move End of Part Marker in the Feature List
  6. Persistent Display Settings in Parameters
  7. Window Select Area When selecting a Hole Center
  8. Shell Command Direct Manipulation
  9. Work Plane Direct Manipulation
  10. Error Glyphs
  11. Disable Construction Environment
  12. Part View Representation

Assembly

  1. Reuse Components in Assembly Mirroring
  2. Remove Internal Voids for Derived Components
  3. Alignment of a Frame member Through Geometry
  4. End Treatment Support on Curved Frame Generator Beams

Drawing

  1. Open Component Drawing File From Assembly
  2. Delete Multiple drawing Sheets in One Step.
  3. Copy Drawing Views to the Same Sheet
  4. Disable Leader Snapping for Drawing Annotations
  5. Cross Lines Clipping for datum Targets and Text
  6. Insert Images of Five Types in Title Blocks
  7. Show All Child Components in Parts List
  8. Default Source Models for base Views

Materials

  1. Appearance and Texture Tools In-Canvas
  2. Material and Appearance
  3. Material and Appearance Libraries and Projects
  4. Material and Appearance Access
  5. Work With Materials and Appearances
  6. Visualizations

Online Services

  1. Cloud Save

Interoperability

  1. Point Cloud
  2. Creo Import
  3. JT Import
  4. STL Export Colors
  5. STL Import
  6. Updated Translators (quite a few)

Task Scheduler

  1. Purge

Installation and Deployment

  1. Citrix

Autodesk Inventor 2013 at First Glance…

The new Materials section will be a huge change for anybody who has been using Inventor for a few years. For years now, Autodesk has been trying to homogenize the disparate approaches to design that are bound to happen when you buy up every company with good idea that fits your vision (and have lots of internal divisions). What they wound up with are new products that needed to be majorly Autodeskified (or discontinued), and new techno bits that need to be incorporated into scads of products in their existing line.…..standardization makes good sense –if they spread the best amongst the rest. The end result should make it easier to move from Autodesk product to product and not have to scratch your head wondering how to open a file.

I have tried a lot of these new features … as many as I had time for, and was very pleased with quite a few of them. Hope you stop by for the posts!

 

 



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