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Aesthetically, the software possessed a distinct personality that subsequent versions have moved away from. The "Presentation" environment, for instance, was a staple for technical illustrators in 2012. It allowed users to take a complex assembly, explode it out into its component parts

Workflow and typical use cases

Perhaps the most marketed feature of 2012 was the integration of Inventor Fusion . This was a distinct application that allowed for "direct modeling" (push/pull geometry) alongside the standard "parametric modeling" (history-based). This allowed users to edit imported geometry (like STEP or IGES files) that lacked a feature history—a major pain point in previous versions. autodesk+inventor+professional+2012