I was excited with all the updates that came through in the 2021 version; they made a bunch of helpful changes.  With the 2022 version, they are definitely continuing that pace.

Now, some of the things, you probably won’t even notice.  These are the performance upgrades.  These are happening in the background and, honestly, because I don’t work with large files on an everyday basis, I probably won’t notice them.  Let’s hope you see the changes and are excitedly pleased.

These performance upgrades span the entire program.  You should see improvements with the simple task of opening and closing files.  They have made improvements to the performance with in-place editing as well.  Their improvements will reach all the way through the performance of the Rendering processes.

They keep improving the property panels and tool palettes.  I love the progression they are making in moving these things to the tree.  Now, they aren’t just making these changes of moving them to the tree, they are adding functionality as well.  The favorites that came out in 2021 is really cool and can help make common settings easily found and reused.  And, that option keeps popping up as they make the changes to the palettes and panels.  Huge time saving potential.

Now this next one has me very, very pleased.  If you recall from the 2021 version, they added the Model State to the assembly.  It allowed you to make multiple configurations of parts and subassemblies in your assembly.  It helps in allowing different layouts for different project scales.  This one made me very happy, but I was confused as to why it didn’t show up in the part file.  Well, it seems that they were working on it.  In the 2022 version you now have Model States available in your Part files as well.  Soooooo, excited.  Now you can add a model state for each stage of manufacturing or just a simplified version.  I still remember back in the day when I just made a separate part file for each stage.  Just a bit of background:  I’m from the manufacturing industry.  So, this makes me happy.

Continuing on the Manufacturing excitement, they have now made it available to “send” your part model into Fusion 360.  Once there, you can use all the extra functionality it has available.

This next one should make the AEC community cheer.  They have been pushing the Revit and Inventor workflow to the next level.  You can now more easily connect from Inventor to Revit now have the ability to save native Revit files from Inventor.   I only see the interoperability between these two programs getting better and better in the future.  These will be exciting times for the two communities that have never really had an easy way to work together.  It is becoming more and more seamless.  I, for one, am looking forward to the blossoming of this new relationship.

That is it for today, but as more descriptions come out, I will share them.

Watch their Overview Video Here.