Integrate Autodesk Inventor with your ERP
Go from Inventor to manufacturing 5x faster.
Intelligent, bi-directional automation that turns the assemblies your engineers build in Inventor into the items, BOMs, and routings your ERP builds from, right from the Inventor ribbon.
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Autodesk Inventor integration
CADTALK ERP is an off-the-shelf, bi-directional integration between Autodesk Inventor and your ERP. It reads assemblies and iProperties from Inventor and transforms the engineering BOM into manufacturing-ready items, BOMs, and routings.
CADTALK sits on the Inventor ribbon, so engineers do the whole job without leaving CAD. They can reserve the ERP part number and choose the vendor while they design, pick the right raw material for each part, and pull ERP data such as costs back into engineering. Add Autodesk Vault and the same integration can run hands-off on a lifecycle transition.
Key Autodesk Inventor integration features
Why getting Inventor and your ERP talking pays off
Inventor holds what engineering designed. The ERP holds the product record production runs on. Between the two, someone exports a parts list, reads off part numbers, descriptions, and quantities, and re-keys them, often across several ERP screens.
Purchasing data right at creation
Engineers set the real part number, the vendor, and the raw material while they design. Purchasing gets an item that's ready to buy, not one that needs fixing later.
Costs in front of engineers
ERP costs come back into Inventor, so engineers see what a design decision costs while they can still change it.
Works the way engineers work
Everything happens from the Inventor ribbon.
How CADTALK works with Autodesk Inventor
Step 1: Read
From the Inventor ribbon, CADTALK reads the assembly and its iProperties, with phantom and reference flags intact. Part numbers, descriptions, quantities, materials, and revision levels come across as engineering defined them.
Steps 2-4:
Frequently Asked Questions
No. CADTALK works straight from Inventor. With Vault, transfers can also run automatically on a lifecycle transition. See the Autodesk Vault page (link once live).
Yes, with the right input. CADTALK works with the data you give it, so feed it a parts list that includes the hardware, or add those parts from the CADTALK interface.
A material picker maps each item to the correct raw material in the ERP while the BOM is built, so material is right when it's written.
No. Legacy records improve as engineers touch parts and send them through CADTALK, so data quality climbs with normal work instead of a big cleanup project first.
CADTALK licenses by concurrent use, not named seats, so you size to how many people use it at the same time. Your solutions engineer helps you size it.
CADTALK loads item-level BOM data reliably. Products with heavy option logic work best when each option is modeled as its own subassembly and the ERP handles option selection. Your solutions engineer reviews your model structure in discovery.
More questions about CADTALK in general? See the Integration Hub FAQ.
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