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Inventor AI · The Autodesk Inventor MCP server

Use AI to work directly in Autodesk Inventor.

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Describe what you want in plain English and Inventor AI creates models, updates drawings, manages properties and completes engineering tasks inside Autodesk Inventor.

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Everything Inventor can do, your AI can do too.

Inventor AI gives your AI access to everything Autodesk Inventor makes available through its API. It can create, edit and manage sketches, parts, assemblies, sheet metal, drawings, iProperties and iLogic. If Inventor supports it through the API, your AI can do it too.

We've built those capabilities into simple, workflow-based actions rather than exposing raw API commands. That means your AI can complete engineering tasks naturally – from creating a model to updating drawings – instead of stepping through one command at a time.

The only limitations are the same ones imposed by Inventor itself. If there's no API, no AI can automate it.

See Inventor AI in action

Watch real engineering workflows completed with Inventor AI – from sheet metal and drawings to Copy Design and more.

What people use it for

Organised the way you already know Inventor – the same workspaces, now driven from an AI session.

Part modelling

Sketches, parametric features, work geometry, direct edits. Describe the part and it's modelled feature by feature – with a screenshot check after every step.

Assembly modelling

Components placed and constrained, joints defined, Content Center hardware inserted, patterns built – with interference and health checks along the way.

Drawings

Base, projected, section and detail views; dimensions, annotations, parts lists and title blocks – and the sheet layout is measured and redone until it reads clean.

Sheet metal

Faces, flanges, bends and corner treatments through to flat patterns and DXF export – a full sheet-metal part from plain English.

iLogic & configurators

It writes and edits iLogic rules, builds forms and configurators – automation your team owns and can run without the AI in the room.

Copy design & data

A whole assembly tree copied with new numbers, names and properties – planned first, verified after. Plus iProperty and BOM audits across the project.

See the demonstrations on the blog

Ask. Watch. Approve.

  1. 1

    Ask

    Plain English, in the AI client you already use. “Model the mounting bracket for the 1200 series – same as BR-1200 but 80 mm wider.” It recalls your standards from ModernCAD Memory before it touches anything.

  2. 2

    Watch

    It drives your running Inventor session directly – sketches, features, assemblies, drawings. After every feature it takes a screenshot and checks its own work, and every part runs the manufacturability checks a senior engineer would.

  3. 3

    Approve

    You review the result – and your edits teach it. What you accept and what you fix feeds back into how it builds the next one. It gets more yours with use.

The questions engineers ask first

Yes. Inventor AI is an MCP server for Autodesk Inventor – MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI clients like Claude Desktop operate other software. Every product on the Modern CAD platform ships as an MCP server: Inventor AI for Autodesk Inventor, Vault AI for Autodesk Vault, and the rest the same way. If your AI client speaks MCP, it can drive them.
No. It's an operator. It connects to your running Inventor session and does the work – models the part, places the views, fixes the properties. Not just automating tasks: doing the actual work.
It's built to distrust itself. Screenshot verification after every feature, a numeric layout gate on every drawing, manufacturability checks on every part – it's designed to catch its own mistakes before a human sees them. And where it can't finish a job to standard, it says so instead of pretending.
Your design files never leave your machine – that's architecture, not a policy promise. What goes to your chosen AI provider is your words, plus the screenshots the assistant takes to check its own work. No models, no drawings, no files. The knowledge base is a private, isolated database only your company can access – run as our service, or on-premises in special circumstances.
Windows 10 or 11, Autodesk Inventor 2025 or newer with a running session, the .NET 8 runtime, an AI client that speaks the open MCP standard (Claude Desktop is the one most of our users run), and your own AI subscription or API key. That last one is a real cost and it's yours – we'd rather tell you now than surprise you later.
Honestly? Sometimes slower than an experienced designer doing one task by hand. But it runs autonomously, so you're free to do something else while it works. And on complex tasks – design checks, mass updates, copy design – it's faster: it keeps high precision and looks after every detail, exactly where a person loses time working out the little specifics.
It replaces the part of the week that never needed a designer. The judgement – what to build, whether it's right, what good looks like – stays yours. That's why your review edits are part of how it learns.

See it drive your Inventor

Request access and bring a part you'd normally put off. We'll connect the bridge to your own Inventor and let the AI show you what it does.

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