An introduction to the menus, icons, commands, and other controls used in Inventor.

User interface of Autodesk Inventor 2025 software

Session 3 – SAVE

Saving File

Saving file is as important as planting trees in backyard!! Jokes apart, its very important to save the model created, so that you can reuse it later. There are many options in Autodesk Inventor to save files. These options are discussed next.

Save option

The Save option is used to save the active file. This option is available in the Save cascading menu of the File menu. The procedure to use this option is given next.

• After creating the model, click on the Save option from the Save cascading menu in the File menu; refer to following figure or press CTRL+S from keyboard.

• If you are saving the file for the first time then the Save As dialog box will be displayed; refer to following figure.

• Click on the Save in drop-down at the top in the dialog box and select desired location for saving file.
• Specify desired name in the File name edit box and click on the Save button. The file will be saved by specified name in the selected location.
• If you use the Save option after first time then the file will be over-written on the previous session of file.

Save All option

The Save All option does the same as the Save option do but it saves all the open files.