New in Autodesk Inventor 2017, Awesome Mesh support! Autodesk Inventor 2017. Friday, 15 April 2016. Note: This functionality supersedes the Autodesk Mesh enabler tool (Click the link to read more). You can also Import OBJ.

The Mesh Enabler started out as a technology preview of an add-on for Autodesk Inventor. As shipped, Autodesk Inventor creates mesh features when you import mesh data from certain file formats. The mesh features are for visualization purposes and cannot be modified.

Using the mesh enabler add-on, Inventor users can convert the mesh data to base features — solids and surfaces. They can then manipulate the resultant base features as if they are native Inventor data. The Mesh Enabler has since graduated and is now available as an add-on from the available to Autodesk Subscription customers. Autodesk software is free to faculty and students for at-school and at-home use via our Education community. As we want students to be able to have every advantage in their education, I make the Mesh Enabler for Inventor available.

Teachers and students email me at, and I share a link to the download from my Buzzsaw site. Merry Christmas. Education is alive in the lab. The Mesh Enabler started out as a technology preview of an add-on for Autodesk Inventor. As shipped, Autodesk Inventor creates mesh features when you import mesh data from certain file formats.

The mesh features are for visualization purposes and cannot be modified. Using the mesh enabler add-on, Inventor users can convert the mesh data to base features — solids and surfaces. They can then manipulate the resultant base features as if they are native Inventor data.

The Mesh Enabler has since graduated and is now available as an add-on from the available to Autodesk Subscription customers. Autodesk software is free to faculty and students for at-school and at-home use via our Education community. As we want students to be able to have every advantage in their education, I make the Mesh Enabler for Inventor available. Teachers and students email me at, and I share a link to the download from my Buzzsaw site.

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CAD tip # 9484: Question CAD% platform category With the application ' from Autodesk Exchange Apps (add-on app for Subscription customers) you can convert STL (stereolithography) files imported into Inventor 2015, 2014 or 2013 (via drag-n-drop or Open) to editable parts. Right-click in the browser tree and choose 'Convert to Base Feature'. The resulting model can be dimensioned.