How to Reclaim Engineering Time Through CAD Automation
Every engineering team is feeling the squeeze. More custom requests, more drawings, more data to keep clean, and fewer people to do it. The work keeps multiplying while the time doesn’t.
This guide breaks down practical, real-world ways to automate the repetitive tasks that drain your engineering capacity. No hype. No buzzwords. Just the workflows that consistently return the most hours to teams like yours.
This eBook covers:
- Capturing design intent the right way
- Using built-in specialized tools in Inventor
- Rule-based product configuration
- Automatic drawing creation
- Automated checking against engineering standards
- Batch processing for cleanup, printing, converting, and simplification
- How to extend your automation to the cloud
What you’ll learn
Product Configuration
How to capture design intent, embed rules into your models, and generate custom configurations without manual rework.
Faster Drawing Creation
Turn complex or inconsistent drawing tasks into predictable, automated workflows your entire team can run.
Automating Standards Compliance
Offload modeling checks, data checks, clash detection, and DFM/assembly checks so engineers can focus on real design work.
Batch Processing at Scale
Run updates, cleanup, imports, exports, and model simplifictions across entire datasets in minutes—not days.
Extending Automation to the Cloud
Push configurators and automation logic to the cloud so engineering, sales, and downstream teams stay in sync.
Who this guide is for
Engineering Leaders
Looking to improve throughput, reduce bottlenecks, and free up senior engineers for higher-value work.
Designers & CAD Engineers
Tired of repetitive tasks and ready to build smarter workflows rooted in design intent.
Operations & IT Managers
Exploring automation that connects engineering with ERP, PLM, MES, and other critical systems.
KETIV helps manufacturers turn engineering bottlenecks into automated, scalable workflows. From custom Inventor automation and iLogic development to cloud configurators and ERP/PLM connectivity, we help teams work faster and with fewer errors.