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Autodesk Inventor Design & Drafting Services

Native Inventor parts, assemblies and drawings — sheet metal with your styles, Frame Generator weldments, iParts and iAssemblies for families, Content Center hardware and drawings with GD&T — delivered to the Inventor version you run and organised for Vault. For machine builders and fabricators standardised on Autodesk.

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Working In Autodesk Inventor

Inventor Work That Fits Your Autodesk Workflow

Teams on Inventor usually have an Autodesk ecosystem around it — Vault, AutoCAD and sometimes Fusion-based downstream tools. We deliver native Inventor files set up for that ecosystem: project files, libraries and styles consistent with yours, Content Center hardware rather than imported fasteners, and drawings that keep their associativity with the model.

Inventor's sheet metal and Frame Generator modules suit the fabrication and machine-frame work we do most, and we use them as intended — with your sheet metal styles and your structural shapes — so flat patterns and cut lists come out right for your shop.

Part, assembly and drawing documents; multi-body and skeletal modelling
Sheet metal with your styles, bend tables and flat-pattern DXF export
Frame Generator weldments with your structural shape library
iParts, iAssemblies and iLogic for families and configurable products
Content Center hardware and custom libraries
IDW/DWG drawings with GD&T, parts lists and revision tables; Inventor Stress Analysis for first-pass checks

Native files we deliver

IPT · IAM · IDW / DWG

Plus STEP AP214/AP242, IGES, Parasolid, DXF and PDF for anyone outside Autodesk Inventor.

Versions

Delivered to the Inventor release you specify. Inventor cannot save to earlier releases, so we confirm your version before starting; if you run an older release than ours we work in a matching version or supply STEP alongside.

Handover to your PDM

Project (.ipj) structure, file naming, iProperties and library paths follow your scheme so files check in to Vault without broken links. Assemblies are delivered with Pack and Go.

Services In Autodesk Inventor

What We Deliver On This Platform

Mechanical 3D Modelling & 2D Drafting

Parametric models, manufacturing and GA drawings, GD&T, BOMs.

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Machine & Equipment Design

Special-purpose machines, conveyors, fixtures, gearboxes and drives.

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Sheet Metal & Fabrication Drawings

Flat patterns, DXFs, weldments and fabrication drawing packages.

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Structural Steel Detailing

Fabrication and erection drawings for steel structures.

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CAD Conversion & Migration

2D to 3D, PDF to CAD, and migration between CAD platforms.

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Translation & Limits

What Travels, And What Does Not

Native Inventor files carry features, iProperties, sheet metal and frame data. STEP and Parasolid exports keep geometry only; AP242 is used where PMI must travel to another platform.

SolidWorks, Creo, Solid Edge and NX models can be imported through AnyCAD or neutral formats as solids; where you need an editable Inventor model we rebuild it as native features and quote it as conversion.

Drawings do not translate between platforms; on migration to Inventor we regenerate drawings from the native model.

Standards

Drawn To Your Market's Standard

ASME Y14.5-2018 (R2024) for North American drawings
ISO GPS (ISO 1101, ISO 8015, ISO 22081) and BS 8888:2025 for ISO markets
AWS A2.4:2020 or ISO 2553:2019 weld symbols
Your own template, title block, layers and properties

FAQ

Autodesk Inventor Questions

Which Inventor version will you deliver?

The one you specify in the quote; Inventor does not save backwards, so we confirm this first.

Do you use our sheet metal styles and structural shapes?

Yes. Send your styles library and Frame Generator shapes and we set them up for your project so results match your stock and your press brake.

Can you build iParts, iAssemblies or iLogic configurations?

Yes, for part families and configurable products, with the rules documented so your team can extend them.

Are the files ready for Vault?

We follow your project file, naming and iProperty scheme and deliver with Pack and Go so Vault check-in is clean.

Can you convert SolidWorks files to native Inventor?

Yes, as a conversion service: rebuilt as native features rather than left as imported solids.

Do you run Inventor Stress Analysis?

For quick first-pass checks. Detailed FEA and CFD are performed in Ansys with full reporting.

Need Autodesk Inventor Work Done This Week?

Send the files or the brief. You get a fixed quote and a date, usually within one business day, and native Autodesk Inventor files back.

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