INV2ERP · Autodesk Inventor add-in
Send the open assembly from the Inventor ribbon and INV2ERP creates it in Odoo: the products, the bills of materials for the assembly and its sub-assemblies, and every line, with the picture and the drawing. The ERP data pane in Inventor then shows where the two differ.
Inventor and Odoo
Every design in Autodesk Inventor has to become products and a bill of materials in Odoo. Typed in by hand, that is slow and easy to get wrong, and a later design change has to be found and keyed in again.
INV2ERP connects the two inside Inventor. It reads the iProperties of the assembly and every component below it, a field mapping decides which property fills which Odoo field, and an optional macro holds the rules that go further. No PDM system is required.
Products, bills of materials and lines for every assembly level.
The Inventor thumbnail and the drawing PDF travel with the product.
Create a routing operation on the bill of materials from Inventor.
The AI writes the rule, you approve, the preview shows the result.
Video
The engine assembly is sent all levels from the Inventor ribbon, its products and bill of materials are opened in Odoo, a routing operation is created, a changed description is caught in Inventor and the assistant previews a Can be Purchased rule.
How it works
Send
Open the assembly and on the INV2ERP ribbon choose Send to Odoo all levels. INV2ERP reads the properties of the assembly and every component below it, applies your rules and creates everything in Odoo: the products, the bills of materials for the assembly and its sub-assembly, and every line.
Result in Odoo
In Odoo the products are there with their descriptions from Inventor as their names. The bill of materials of the engine assembly lists all eight components with their quantities: the same structure as in Inventor.
Files
The Inventor thumbnail becomes the product's picture in Odoo, and the drawing PDF is attached to the product, so purchasing and production see the part without opening Inventor.
Additional actions
Additional actions add whatever else your process needs. On the INV2ERP ribbon choose Create routing: INV2ERP shows the operation for the assembly with its work center and time, and creates it in Odoo. On the bill of materials it appears as operation Assembly, on work center Assembly 1, five minutes.
Check in Inventor
Show ERP item details shows the product live from Odoo, and the ERP data pane puts Inventor and Odoo side by side. In the demo the cap screw's description has since changed in Inventor, so the difference stands out in red, before anyone orders the wrong part.
Rules and AI
The field mapping decides which Inventor property fills which Odoo field and holds fixed values such as the product type. For rules that go further, describe them in plain words: screws, rings and pins are bought, so Can be Purchased is ticked for them and unticked for everything else.
The AI looks up what it needs in Inventor and Odoo, asks for your approval before each change, writes the rule into the macro, checks that it compiles and previews the result on the real assembly: only the cap screw can be purchased. Nothing has been sent yet.
Questions
Asked whether the component quantities of the assembly match Odoo, the assistant reads the bill of materials in Inventor and the live rows in Odoo and answers: all of them match, quantity for quantity.
Search
Ask which of the parts in the assembly already exist in Odoo: the assistant queries the ERP and answers in one table, and points out what the next send would change.
The assistant works with your own key for Claude, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI or a compatible model, with a ChatGPT sign-in, with a coding agent such as Claude or Gemini, or with your own assistant through the MCP connector. Whatever it proposes, nothing is changed until you approve it.
Related integrations
INV2ERP is installed for one ERP: Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One or Odoo.
FAQ
Send to Odoo all levels creates or updates a product for the assembly and every component below it, and a bill of materials with its components for the assembly and each sub-assembly. The Inventor thumbnail becomes the product picture and the drawing PDF is attached.
Yes, as an additional action on the INV2ERP ribbon. Create routing shows the operation, work center and time for the assembly and writes it as an operation on the bill of materials in Odoo.
No. INV2ERP reads the open assembly in Inventor. With Vault, AV2ERP sends released items from the Vault item master to Odoo and adds a link back to Vault.
Your own key for Claude, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI or a compatible model, a ChatGPT sign-in, a coding agent such as Claude or Gemini, or your own assistant through the MCP connector. The assistant can read both systems, but the field mapping, the macro and the ERP data change only after you approve.
INV2ERP connects Inventor to Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business One and Odoo, chosen when you install it. The same engine runs in Autodesk Vault, SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS PDM and Excel.
In a demo we send it to Odoo from the ribbon with its picture and drawing, check it from Inventor and show how your own rules would be written. Questions first? Use the contact page.