Here we are with another great release of Inventor that continues to be driven by you. Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to send us your feedback and suggestions. Those suggestions helped to shape over 100 enhancements over the past year.
Inventor 2024 is packed with new features and enhancements to improve your design experience. We also know that documentation is essential to effectively communicate your designs to manufacturing. You will find enhancements for 3D annotations as well as 2D drawings. And we know that performance is a high priority for those working on large complex designs. We have continued our commitment to speed up your engineering workflows.
This article will highlight several of the enhancements you should expect to see after installing Inventor 2024. For a complete list of enhancements, be sure to visit the Inventor online help guide.
A special thanks to James Willoughby for creating all of the video demonstrations below.
General enhancements
Section View
The section view definition persists in the design view representation. You can easily edit your section views or suppress the section by right-clicking on the view representation node.
You also have control of the end cap preview during section view plane dragging. It will be turned off by default if your assembly is greater than or equal to 500 parts.
Graphics
Until now, Inventor Studio had a 4096 x 4096 pixel rendering output. The limitation has been removed and Inventor Studio will render images up to 16K x 16K resolution, depending on what your graphics card supports.
Custom Environment Image Support
The workflow for using custom HDR and EXR images with IBL lighting styles is much improved and is supported for both CPU and GPU ray tracing.
Support for IBL backgrounds
GPU ray tracing now supports rendering with IBL backgrounds.
Perspective with ortho faces as the default
It is now possible to set “Perspective With Ortho Faces” as the default view setting in both Document Settings and Application options.
