

First, you now have much more control over how the system looks like to colour-blind users.

Lastly on the user interface front, there are two configuration options I want to mention. On the subject of threaded holes, meanwhile, there are also some new tools to help formalise their use across an organisation, with presets that enable users to dictate how threads are defined, which are available and which are considered best practice. With higher resolution monitors, it makes sense to have all your options, functions and variables on a single panel, rather than hidden away within various tabs in a dialogue box. It might seem strange to focus on such basic aspects of the software, but the reality is that the way that we use computers and display devices is changing.

You’ll now find everything you need to define engineering hole features in a single dialogue. The same is true of the hole command, another feature that was due some attention. This has remained pretty much the same for some time now, and follows the ribbon guidelines used by Microsoft Windows applications, but there have been some improvements worth mentioning.įor example, the measurement command got some love in the 2018 release, but for 2019, it has been reworked entirely, to provide all features and functions in a single panel. Moving on from performance to look at some of the more practical aspects of using Inventor, there are a few key changes to the user interface. Of course, that may mean that users start building even more complex and demanding assemblies with even more detail – but that’s just the way it goes. There’s also been work done to make handling large assemblies more efficient, both in full mode or when using lightweight geometry representations. With that in mind, Autodesk has been adding multicore support to Inventor over the last few releases and this one is no exception, with that support extended to include creating and updating precise views in drawings. One way to make things more efficient is through multi-core processing. Activities like these can really push the software, and your hardware, to the limit. When it comes to mechanical engineering software, the processes that make the most exacting demands are typically large assembly design, drawing view creation and third-party data imports.

To kick off, there’s the usual work done to make the system more responsive under specific conditions. So what does Autodesk have in store for the Inventor 2019 release? 1 Inventor’s performance under the hood has seen some work to help build larger and large assembliesĭespite the time that Autodesk has spent developing and promoting its Fusion 360 platform in recent years, the more mature Inventor still gets plenty of attention, with a solid amount of work apparent in every release and subsequent updates – not just bug fixes, but substantial new functions appear over the course of every 12-month release cycle.
