Autodesk Inventor 2026 and 2027 on Linux

Install and run Autodesk Inventor Professional 2026 and 2027 on Linux with Wine - from Autodesk's own download, without Windows or a virtual machine, with one command. Both releases can be installed side by side.

Status: early release (v0.3), in active development. Works for everyday part, assembly, drawing and Content Center work, iLogic and Stress Analysis on Arch Linux with Hyprland or KDE Plasma (tested on two machines: AMD RX 580, and an Intel UHD 630 + NVIDIA GTX 1050 laptop - the laptop with a slightly older version). Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 install and run too (first tests, in a virtual machine). Inventor 2027 is newer here and less tested than 2026. NixOS: a declarative flake (see NixOS). Reports are welcome.

This is an unofficial community project. It is not made, supported or endorsed by Autodesk. You need your own Inventor license (an education license works). See Disclaimer.

Quick start (details in Installation):

git clone https://github.com/Harvi654/Autodesk-Inventor-for-Linux.git ~/inventor-on-linux
cd ~/inventor-on-linux
bash scripts/install.sh ~/Downloads/Inventor     # the folder with Autodesk's download

Part modelling	Assembly with constraints
Drawing with a section view	Stress Analysis

Demo

All videos are screen recordings on Arch Linux. Only "Creating a part" is sped up (2×); the others run in real time.

Real-time viewport on Linux

inventor-linux-demo.mp4

Creating a part (2× speed)

inventor-linux-part.mp4

Creating an assembly

inventor-linux-assembly.mp4

Stress Analysis – I-beam under load

inventor-linux-stress-analysis.mp4

What works

	Status	Notes
Installation from Autodesk's download	✅	Autodesk's own installers run under Wine; no Windows needed
Updates (e.g. 2026.4)	✅
Sign-in and licensing	✅	in your normal web browser
Home page, New / Open	✅
Sketch, dimensions, constraints	✅
Part modelling (extrude, hole, ...)	✅
Assemblies	✅
Content Center (screws, nuts, profiles, ...)	✅	~12.7 GB, installed by default
Design Accelerator (shafts, ...)	✅
Materials and appearances	✅
3D view (Direct3D 11 via DXVK)	✅
Inventor 2027 (2027.1)	✅	install, sign-in, parts, assemblies, drawings, Stress Analysis; the installer picks the version from the download
3D view in 2027: Direct3D 12 via vkd3d-proton	✅	Inventor 2027 picks DirectX 12 when it works (Application Options > Hardware); without vkd3d-proton it falls back to DirectX 11 and warns once
CPU ray tracing (View > Ray Tracing)	✅	runs on the processor - fans spin up, that is expected
Drawings (views, sections)	✅
Dimension text editor in drawings	✅	symbols, GD&T and the symbol palette as on Windows
Export STEP, STL, PDF	✅	samples in docs/examples
iLogic	✅	rules, parameters driving the model
Stress Analysis (mesh, simulate, results, animation)	✅
Sheet metal (face, flange, flat pattern, DXF export)	✅
Dynamic Simulation	✅	joints, gravity, run and replay; the Simulation Player panel can end up behind the main window (Alt+Tab)
Frame Generator	✅	Insert Frame with Content Center profiles (since Wine build wine-11.20-3)
Frame Analysis	✅	study, constraints, loads, Simulate and results, Inventor 2026 and 2027 (since Wine build wine-11.20-6); in 2027 the iLogic pane sometimes stays on the left showing an old picture - View → User Interface → toggle iLogic clears it
3D PDF (Anark)	❌	Publish crashes Anark's corewrapper.exe under wine-mono; off by default
Open dialog: clicking quickly through folders	✅	crashed Inventor 2026 and 2027 (.NET "Fatal error" while previews load) - fixed in Wine build wine-11.20-4 (ntdll, XSAVE). 2027: no previews yet, folder names missing in the path bar
GPU ray tracing	❌	not yet: tested on an RX 6400 (RDNA 2) with Inventor 2027 - vkd3d-proton reports DXR 1.1, but Inventor still says the card is not supported and never loads its ray tracer; CPU ray tracing works

Found something that does not work? See Reporting problems.

Requirements

• Arch Linux (or a derivative with pacman), Ubuntu 26.04 / Debian (apt) or Fedora 44 (dnf) - Ubuntu and Fedora in first tests; Wayland or X11
• tested desktops: Hyprland, KDE Plasma and GNOME (Wayland); others will likely work too
• a GPU with Vulkan drivers (AMD/Intel: Mesa; NVIDIA: the proprietary driver)
• ~60 GB free disk space (Inventor + Content Center + the unpacked download)
• an Autodesk account with an Inventor 2026 license
• about an hour, most of it waiting

Installation

1. Download Inventor from Autodesk

Create a folder for the download, e.g. ~/Downloads/Inventor. Then, signed in at manage.autodesk.com:

1. Products and Services → click Inventor Professional.
2. Choose version 2026 or 2027 and your language (English is the tested one).
3. Click the arrow next to the download button and pick Direct download (called Browser download in some versions) - not "Install".
4. Two files are downloaded - save both into the folder.
5. Recommended: in the same place, under the available downloads / updates, download the newest Inventor Professional update of that version (e.g. 2026.4 or 2027.1) into the same folder. Only the Inventor update - the Identity Manager, Licensing Service and Shared Components updates listed there are not needed.

The folder then looks like this (its name does not matter):

~/Downloads/Inventor/
├── Inventor_Professional_2026_English_Win_64bit_db_001_002.exe   16 MB    comes with the .7z
├── Inventor_Professional_2026_English_Win_64bit_db_002_002.7z    5.7 GB   required
└── Inventor_2026.4_Update.exe                                    1.3 GB   optional, recommended

• The two ..._db_... files are one download: the .7z holds Inventor, the small .exe is the Windows unpacker (not used here, but keep it with the .7z). With another language, English in the names is different.
• Keep the downloaded names; don't unpack anything yourself - the installer does it (into ~/.cache/inventor-on-linux/media, ~15 GB).
• An already unpacked install image (a folder with setup.xml / manifest/) works too.
• The installer reads the version from the file names: 2026 goes to ~/.wine-inventor2026, 2027 to ~/.wine-inventor2027. Both can be installed side by side; one download folder per version.
• You do not need the "Install" web installer or the Create_Installer_*.exe tools - they are for Windows. If they are in the folder, they are skipped.

The easy way: one command

With the download from step 1 in your Downloads folder, run this in a terminal:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Harvi654/Autodesk-Inventor-for-Linux/main/get.sh)

It installs git if needed, downloads this project into ~/inventor-on-linux (the newest release) and starts the graphical installer, which finds the download, shows every phase with a progress bar and asks for your password in a window. get.sh is short - read it first if you like. Later, Inventor on Linux - Setup in your app menu repairs or updates the installation.

Or step by step:

2. Get this project

git clone https://github.com/Harvi654/Autodesk-Inventor-for-Linux.git ~/inventor-on-linux
cd ~/inventor-on-linux

3. Install

bash scripts/install.sh ~/Downloads/Inventor     # the folder from step 1

Run it as your normal user; it asks for your password when it needs sudo (system packages only). Arch does not support partial upgrades, so installing packages runs pacman -Syu - your system is updated too. It installs the system packages (official Arch repositories only), downloads this project's Wine (~220 MB, see How it works), unpacks the download, runs Autodesk's installers, sets up the Wine prefix and adds Inventor to your app launcher.

If it stops, fix what it reports and run the same command again - finished steps are skipped. The log is in logs/install-*.log.

Options: --no-content (leave out Content Center), --prefix DIR, --help for the rest.

Or with a window (new, being tested):

bash scripts/install-gui.sh

The same installation with a window: it checks your system, finds Autodesk's download in your Downloads folder, shows the eight phases with a progress bar and the installer's output, and asks for your password in a dialog. It needs GTK 4 for Python and installs it first if it is missing. It lists the installed releases (each with a Start button), installs the release of the selected download next to them - or repairs it - and can update this project and its Wine. Uninstall removes releases one by one.

4. Hyprland only: window rules

On other desktops skip this step. Add to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf:

source = ~/inventor-on-linux/config/hyprland-inventor.conf

With a Lua config (hyprland.lua, Hyprland 0.55+) copy the contents of config/hyprland-inventor.lua into it instead. Then hyprctl reload.

5. Start

Start Autodesk Inventor 2026 (or 2027) from your app launcher - each installed release has its own entry; .ipt/.iam/... open in the newest one, the others are under "Open with". Or:

bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/launch-inventor.sh

With several versions installed, choose one by its prefix - the version is read from it:

INV_PREFIX=~/.wine-inventor2027 bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/launch-inventor.sh

The first start opens your browser for the Autodesk sign-in.

Laptop with two GPUs: check which one Inventor uses:

grep -hE "Creating device" -A1 ~/inventor-on-linux/logs/inventor-*.log | tail -2

If it is the integrated one, add part of the name of the GPU you want to ~/inventor-on-linux/config.env, e.g. INV_GPU="GTX 1050".

Keeping it working

• Update this project: cd ~/inventor-on-linux && git pull
• Inventor runs on this project's own Wine in ~/.local/share/inventor-on-linux, so Arch's Wine updates don't affect it, and other Wine programs don't use it. When a git pull brings a newer build, the launcher tells you; then run bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/get-wine.sh.
• Installed with v0.1 (fixes copied into the system's Wine)? Run bash scripts/get-wine.sh once to switch; sudo pacman -S wine puts Arch's original Wine back. INV_WINE=system in config.env keeps the old way (then scripts/rebuild-wine-fixes.sh after every Wine update).

Uninstall

bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/uninstall.sh

Removes the launcher entry, this project's Wine (and fixes copied into the system's Wine by v0.1, by reinstalling Arch's wine package) and, after asking, the Wine prefix. Your Inventor files in ~/Inventor are kept.

NixOS

On x86_64 NixOS, a flake and module provide a declarative setup using your own Autodesk installation media and license. See the NixOS setup guide for installation, system integration, and known limitations. The module uses system graphics drivers and keeps sign-in and settings in persistent user state.

FAQ

Which license do I need? Your own Inventor 2026 license - a paid subscription or a free education license. Sign-in and licensing are Autodesk's own, in your browser; nothing is bypassed.

Does it need Windows or a virtual machine? No. Autodesk's own download is installed directly under Wine.

Where are my files? In ~/Inventor (drive D: in Inventor). The Wine prefix cannot see the rest of your home folder.

Is it slow? 3D runs through DXVK (Direct3D 11 on Vulkan) and feels like on Windows on the tested machines. The first start after installing takes longer.

Is it safe to run? Read the scripts first - they are plain bash and Python, no compiled programs are in this repository. What they do:

• sudo is used only for pacman (packages from the official Arch repositories). Nothing outside your home folder is changed otherwise.
• Downloads: this project's Wine from its GitHub releases - built in public by the Build Wine workflow from Wine's source and patches/, checked against the SHA-256 in wine/SHA256SUMS (you can build it yourself instead: scripts/get-wine.sh --build), DXVK 2.7.1 and vkd3d-proton 3.0.1 from their GitHub releases (SHA-256 checked) and Microsoft's WebView2 runtime. Inventor itself comes only from your own Autodesk download.
• Everything else stays in your home folder: the Wine prefix (~/.wine-inventor2026), this project's Wine, the launcher entry. Telemetry add-ins are switched off.
• scripts/uninstall.sh undoes it.

Will Autodesk support it? No - see Disclaimer. Report problems here.

How it works

Inventor itself is not modified. The work is in three places:

• Wine fixes (patches/): small patches for Wine bugs Inventor runs into - a missing WMI class, the file dialog's folder view, type libraries, MSI transforms and delta patches, COM details Stress Analysis needs, a sketch that only redrew on mouse movement, a home page that lagged behind the mouse, black boxes behind sketch inputs under Xwayland, a crash with some mouse devices. They are applied to vanilla Wine (version in wine/version.env) and built into this project's Wine by a public GitHub workflow (scripts/build-wine.sh); the result is installed in your home folder, next to - not over - the system's Wine. They were written with AI help, so they are not sent to Wine itself (Wine does not accept AI-generated code); Wine gets bug reports with test cases instead. New patches come with a test that is checked on real Windows.
• Installation (scripts/install-from-image.py, scripts/lib/odis.py): reads Autodesk's install image and runs its packages in the right order under Wine, in place of Autodesk's Windows installer front end.
• Prefix setup (scripts/finish-install.sh): DXVK for Direct3D 11, vkd3d-proton for Direct3D 12 (Inventor 2027 checks for it), WebView2 for the home page and sign-in, free fonts in place of Windows fonts, browser sign-in, and isolation of the Wine prefix from your home folder.

Details, background and every problem found on the way: docs/arch-hyprland.md.

Roadmap

Planned, roughly in this order:

• more testing on other hardware (NVIDIA-only, Intel-only, laptops)
• Ubuntu / Debian (Ubuntu 26.04 installs and runs - first test in a VM)
• Fedora (Fedora 44 Workstation installs and runs - first test in a VM)
• openSUSE
• other desktops: KDE Plasma and GNOME (Wayland) work in first tests - Hyprland-specific parts are only window rules
• prebuilt Wine with the fixes, so nothing has to be compiled (v0.2)
• a graphical installer, with several releases side by side (v0.2.1, v0.3)
• 3D PDF, Inventor Studio, weldments, tube & pipe, cable & harness - test and fix
• Inventor 2027 (2027.1 - first test on Arch)
• Inventor 2025

Reporting problems

Open an issue with:

1. what you did, step by step, and whether it happens every time,

2. a screenshot,

3. the report file from

   bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/report.sh            # after a crash or a problem in Inventor
   bash ~/inventor-on-linux/scripts/report.sh --install  # when the installation failed

   It collects your system, GPU, Wine and Inventor versions and the end of the newest log into ~/inventor-report-<date>.txt, with e-mail addresses, sign-in tokens and your user name removed. Read it before you send it.

Please report problems here, not to WineHQ: this project runs Wine with its own patches, and Wine's bug tracker only takes reports from unmodified Wine. Fixes that belong in Wine are sent there by this project.

Disclaimer

Autodesk and Inventor are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Autodesk. It contains no Autodesk software and does not change or bypass licensing: you install Autodesk's own download and sign in with your own account and license. Running Inventor on Linux is not supported by Autodesk; use it at your own risk, keep backups of your work, and check that your license terms allow it.

The scripts are provided as they are, without warranty of any kind.

About this project

This is a hobby project, made out of enthusiasm - I am a fan of Linux and of the Wine project, and I wanted to use Inventor on Linux without a virtual machine. Nobody pays for it and it is not connected to any company.

It is only possible thanks to the people who build, for free and in the open, what it stands on: Wine, DXVK and vkd3d-proton first of all, and Mesa / the Vulkan drivers, Arch Linux, Hyprland and KDE. And thanks to AI - most of the code and the Wine patches were worked out together with Claude (Anthropic), which made a project like this doable for one person in their free time.

Thank you all.

Credits

This project started as a fork of cakelesscoder/inventor-on-linux, which first got Inventor 2026 running under Wine and found the Win32_TimeZone fix (patches/wbemprox-timezone.patch).

Most of the code and the Wine patches in this fork were written with the help of AI (Claude, by Anthropic) and tested by people on real machines.

License

MIT, like the original project - except the Wine patches in patches/: they change Wine's code and are therefore under Wine's license, the LGPL 2.1 or later. The Wine this project builds and publishes is LGPL 2.1 or later too. See the patch layout.

Autodesk Inventor and Microsoft WebView2 remain proprietary. The Nix packages and installer sources are marked unfree; this repository's license does not cover those applications.