NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential
Accelerate your workflows, optimise data quality and save time
NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential is an add-in for Autodesk Inventor with smart functionality designed to increase your productivity, standardise data and secure consistent output.
Built for engineers, CAD technicians, and product developers, it streamlines workflows, keeps track of engineering data, reduces manual tasks, and saves valuable time every day — helping you design smarter and focus on innovation.
The plugin is ideal for smaller manufacturing companies that do not require Autodesk Vault Professional or release version management but want more structure, fewer errors, and consistent results without complex automation.
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Accelerate your workflows
The plugin streamlines Inventor workflows, letting you name and describe data quickly and consistently. Built-in productivity tools cut repetitive tasks and project time, minimising manual work like generating and printing drawings.
Optimise data quality through standards
Ensures consistent file naming and structure to prevent data chaos, while enforcing disciplined product data creation through standardised metadata and templates.
Save time and deliver faster
Reduce engineering time and speed up time to market by providing your team with a clear, up-to-date overview of engineering data and the tools to work efficiently and consistently.
Consistency without complexity
Ideal plugin for smaller companies using Autodesk Inventor and shared network drives to handle engineering data and manufacturing documentation. Ensure consistent output with minimal effort when you don't require release version management or use Autodesk Vault Professional.
Increase productivity and standardise engineering data
Our add-in to Autodesk Inventor is built for manufacturing and is used by professionals who create and refine 3D designs every day, including:
- Design and mechanical engineers
- CAD technicians
- Product developers
- Process engineers.
The plugin enhances your Autodesk Inventor workflows with smart functionality that helps to increase your productivity, reduce manual tasks and save time — so you can design smarter.
If you are looking for a practical way to introduce more structure and reliability into your engineering processes and want fewer errors, clearer standards, and greater predictability, then NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential is perfect for you.
Ideal add-in for smaller companies using Autodesk Inventor and shared network drives to handle engineering data and manufacturing documentation.
6 key benefits of NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential
NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential helps you work faster and more efficiently in Inventor with tools tailored to your workflows and needs. Below, you’ll find the features our users say make the biggest difference.
Accurate and easy overview of property data
With the Property Editor, you quickly get an overview of your model properties. The data is displayed, and all types of metadata can be edited. Revision, length, and weight are filled in automatically.
Gain more time for design creation
With the Drawing feature, you can automatically generate drawings as part of your workflow. This helps to save valuable time for actual design creation by eliminating trivial tasks and ensuring a consistent layout based on templates and predefined drawing settings.
View all your documentation in one place
The Documentation Status provides a real-time overview of design files and status, helping to eliminate errors and manual work. Stay confident that your documentation is always up to date as changes occur.
Publish documentation in the file formats you need
The Advanced Publish function offers standardised file creation to keep your documentation consistent, accurate, and up to date. Enables you to publish documentation of files such as PDF, DXF, STP and JPG.
Easy and uniform printing of drawings
The Print feature enables you to create predefined print setups and a complete printout of the production basis in one step, saving valuable time and ensuring a smooth, efficient print process.
Save time with built-in productivity features
Enjoy a range of time-saving features such Analyze Sketch, Quick fix, Colorize, Center of Gravity and more, helping you tackle typical design tasks faster. Get instant results without complex setup, streamline your workflow, and focus on designing great products.
Increasing standardisation and future-proofing
The simplifications and automations are a great relief and lead to more effective and even more secure processes.
Easy onboarding
Our consultants support you through setup and configuration, and NTI Academy offers training and courses to build your skills. Access our online Help Center anytime for step-by-step tutorials, user guides, documentation, and FAQs. You can also use the NTI AI Assistant to instantly find answers to your questions — all designed to help you get the most from NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential.
Discover how NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential can help you
Explore how our customers have adopted NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential and quickly created great value in their daily routines and processes. Learn more about the plugin from our latest webinar.
What is NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential used for?
NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential is an add-in for Autodesk Inventor with smart functionality designed to increase your productivity, standardise your engineering data and secure consistent output.
Built for engineers, CAD technicians, and product developers, it streamlines workflows, keeps track of engineering data, reduces manual tasks, and saves valuable time every day — helping you design smarter and focus on innovation.
NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential is ideal for smaller manufacturing companies that do not require Autodesk Vault Professional or release version management but want more structure, fewer errors, and consistent results without complex automation.
How easy is it to set up NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential?
Many features are ready to use with default settings. The default configuration can be extended with limited or no support. If you need support with your setup, NTI is happy to help.
Can I get a demo?
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us to book a demo of NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential. You can also fill in the form on this landing page.
What languages does the plugin support?
The interface of NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential is available in English, Spanish, Italian, German and Brazilian Portuguese.
What is the price for a subscription?
Pricing depends on your organisational setup and requirements. We’re happy to provide a tailored quote based on your specific needs. Please get in touch with us, and we’ll help you find the best option.
Is there another NTI FOR INVENTOR add-in?
Yes. NTI FOR INVENTOR Professional offers smart functionality designed to optimise workflows, reduce manual work and ensure proper data management in Autodesk Inventor. Ideal for companies that need robust control of design data and want to scale from standardised processes to fully automated, lifecycle-driven documentation across engineering, production, and purchasing. Built for companies using Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Vault Professional that require release version management.
NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential offers a more limited range of features and is typically used by smaller teams. Ideal plugin for smaller manufacturing companies that do not require Autodesk Vault Professional or release version management but want more structure, fewer errors, and consistent results without complex automation.
Please contact us to learn which variant best matches how you use Autodesk Inventor today — and how you plan to use it in the future.
What are the systems requirements?
As an add-in to Autodesk Inventor, NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential does not have significant requirements compared to Autodesk Inventor itself. If the system requirements for Autodesk Inventor are fulfilled, there are no additional requirements for installing NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential.
How is my data stored and protected?
Your data is stored on your local drive or Vault filestore, depending on your setup. The integrity of your setup is not affected by using NTI FOR INVENTOR Essential, and management of your data will remain in line with how the Autodesk product manages your data.
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