Detail your drawings in minutes, not hours.
What it does
Drawing Assistant is an Autodesk Inventor add-in that automates and streamlines the 2D drawing creation and detailing process. It offers free and premium functions for dimensioning, balloons, parts lists, and drawing cleanup, turning lengthy detailing tasks into quick operations.
Key features
- AutoDim: instantly generate all necessary dimensions for a drawing view in a single click
- Next Dimension tools to center, arrange, and add overall dimensions with one click
- Add, find, and delete balloons
- Maintain parts lists with Purge Empty Columns and Auto-Fit options
- Configurable BOM sorting on up to three columns, shared with ADC
- General cleanup functions including Delete Sick (remove erroneous values) and Clear Sheet
- Remove all center lines, center marks, and symbols instantly
Parts lists & BOM
Drawing Assistant keeps your parts lists tidy: Purge Empty Columns removes columns with nothing in them, and Auto-Fit sizes the remaining ones to their content.
BOM Sort controls the order of the rows. Open it from Settings → BOM Sort… and sort on up to three columns, each ascending or descending, chosen from the real columns of your model — including your own iProperties. A fresh installation sorts by Part Number, ascending.
A sort set here applies to Drawing Assistant only. ADC has its own BOM sort, set up separately in its settings.
👉 Full guide: BOM sort.
Language
Drawing Assistant is available in every language the add-ins support, and follows the language you set in any BLUE MECH module — including its property picker, which now switches immediately rather than on the next restart.
Compatibility: Autodesk Inventor 2021–2027.