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Six short demos of ModernCAD Inventor AI, our MCP server that lets modern AI models operate Autodesk Inventor with plain language. Recorded between March and September 2026 and first shared on LinkedIn, collected here in one place. Every video plays full screen – just hit the button in the player.
Turning a static model into a configurator used to be its own development project. Here the AI examines a real design from LDG Engineering, works out the repeatable logic with the designer, updates the parts into fully parametric components, writes the iLogic rules and assembles a working configurator – about 45 minutes and a handful of prompts, after which a new variation takes about a minute. Read the write-up.
Inventor's Frame Generator has no API, so fabricators' repeat-but-never-identical steel work has stayed out of reach for automation. Here the AI configures a rule-based frame generator in Design Gear from a plain-language brief, then uses Inventor AI and ModernCAD Memory to add the parts, produce the drawing and export PDF, STEP and DXF cut files. Read the write-up.
The AI builds a working iLogic cabinet configurator in a single prompt: sizing rules, a form with size and finish options, and export buttons wired to rules that produce the drawing PDF and STEP files. Change the numbers on the form and the cabinet rebuilds itself.
One prompt takes a steel mounting plate from nothing to deliverables: the modelled part, a fully dimensioned A3 drawing with callouts and a populated title block, and STEP and PDF exports with iProperties set on both the model and the drawing.
More than 250 Inventor commands are exposed to the AI through the MCP layer. Here it designs a sheet metal part from scratch off a simple request, then uses a feedback loop to observe, adjust and refine the result until it meets the requirement.
The first public look at Inventor AI. An AI model connects to Autodesk Inventor through our MCP server, discovers the available commands and drives the software in real time. Even in this early cut it's manipulating assemblies, speeding up routine design work and generating new designs from previous models.
We're onboarding early users now. Tell us what you build and we'll show you what Inventor AI can do with it.
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