It has better integration with Vault, is more mature, In fact if you go into any real engineering office and they're doing 3d modeling, if they're an Autodesk house they're gonna be modeling in Inventor probably 95% of the time. Inventor's workflow is a lot more similar to other modeling packages like Solidworks, stuff you're more likely to actually see in industry. It also doesn't seem to handle multiple users terribly well. It's not terribly easy to do advanced models with, it's simulation is okay but not great to use, and it's machining tool paths leave a lot of customization to be desired vs a gold standard like MasterCAM. IMHO, it falls into the 'jack of all trades, master of none' trap. That's about the gist of it.įusion is supposed to be the 'one stop cloud shop' for 3D engineering design through modeling to simulation to prototype or production manufacturing. It can do machining tool paths, Inventor cannot (easily). My view as a CNC programmer/operator whose done a vit of modelling:įusion's claim to fame is native CAM and fea.

Autodesk inventor fusion