Design Catalog is a desktop application that enables engineers to create a custom collection of models within Autodesk® Inventor® for quick access to models and drawings, easily copy, and insert them into the current design. The models in the catalog are grouped by pages and categories. Design Catalog can be shared among other engineers in the department. The catalog allows a deep copy of the entire assembly, including drawings and linked files. The models in the catalog can have preconfigured constraints, making the insertion of models much more efficient.

Design Catalog functions as a collection of intelligent shortcuts to your local files — no data is uploaded or stored externally. All catalog information, metadata, and previews remain securely on your machine or your local network.

Key Features:

• Users can group models into Pages and Categories.
• Each catalog item provides model details: a large image, model iProperties, linked drawings, PDFs, etc.
• Users can open, copy, or insert any catalog model.
• Users can create a deep copy of any catalog model, including associated drawings.
• Users can define naming rules for copied models by adding or removing prefixes and suffixes.
• Users can preconfigure the constraint sequence for each model.
• Models can be inserted with constraints as a single unit, one-by-one, by group, or by multiple groups.
• Models can also be inserted without constraints into free modeling space.
• The catalog supports reordering of models within a category, as well as reordering of categories and pages. Models can be dragged between categories.

Technical Notes:

• The button "Add Free" inserts the model without constraints. Always enabled.
• The buttons "Add One," "Add One By One," "Add Group," and "Add Multi Group" insert the model and start the user-defined constraining sequence. Enabled only when constraints are defined.
• The buttons "Add Group" and "Add Multi Group" are available when there is only 1 defined constraint with a type of Insert Mate or Insert Flush.

Design Catalog reads model iProperties using Inventor Apprentice Server, which, starting with Inventor 2026, is no longer installed with Inventor by default. You can download and install it for free from the Autodesk website here.

Check the Design Catalog guide on our website

The app provides a 30-day free trial with full functionality.

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