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Autodesk Inventor 2016 A First Look by Jerry Berns Watch Video here Autodesk has just released Inventor 2016, the 20th release of their digital prototyping fl agship product for 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation. The new release includes several new features which provide a more connected experience between you, the data, and the design process. Enhancements include seamless parametric, direct editing, and freeform design tools. You can associatively connect your Inventor designs to non- native CAD formats. You will also benefi t from improved integration between electrical and mechanical designs. In all, Inventor 2016 provides a better connected design experience. has had the greatest improvement for giving you access to your models and drawings. The history can be based on the active project or all projects. In addition, you have been provided with context menus that give you immediate access to fi le management. Also, the Recent Documents list Over the coming days and weeks, we will be has been enhanced with better fi ltering controls. rolling out more than 50 video-based lessons covering all of the new features of Inventor 2016, Frame Generator users will really appreciate as part of the complete CADLearning for Inventor the behavior of the new top-level only Recent Documents. Plus, the interface offers several 2016, which includes nearly 400 individual customizable elements. lessons. In the meantime, here is a quick peek at some of the new features in Inventor 2016: User Interface Autodesk continues to make improvements to the user interface. Inventor (My) Home page, introduced in the last release, includes new tools that make fi le access and management easier. For example, you can select between basic and advanced templates, easily switch between projects, and add shortcuts to favorite folders, all from the Home page. The Recent Documents list 14 www.cadlearning.com Other UI enhancements include improved part and assembly environment ribbons, more resizable dialog boxes, and the sort order within the Parameters dialog box is based numerically instead of alphabetically, just to name a few. Documentation Signifi cant improvements to drawing creation has occurred in the Inventor 2016 release. The new Create Drawing View command combines several steps into one, so that you can quickly create drawing views from your model.