Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor: Confirm Manufacturability and Customer Satisfaction

Autodesk Inventor 2024 or a more recent version, as well as Autodesk Docs are required to use Informed Design for Inventor. 

What is Informed Design for Inventor?

Unlock the full potential of your building products with Informed Design for Inventor.

• Seamless Collaboration: Collaborate effortlessly with designers by creating parametric models of your building products. Confirm that only compliant versions of your products are used, thanks to built-in constraints and rules. 
• Powerful BIM Content Creation: Define BIM content confirming that your building products meet project requirements, compatibility with other components, and industry standards. 
• Streamlined Product Documentation: Simplify the generation of product documentation at scale and effortlessly generate the necessary outputs for fabrication. 

Why use Informed Design for Inventor?

Reduce wasted resources

Through customizable, parametric versions of your building products, customers can tailor designs within set parameters, reducing waste and non-viable products.

Speed up time to market

Promote smoother operations and avoid downstream delays and rework by equipping your customers with known-manufacturable and customizable versions of your building products.

Improve collaboration

Enhance collaboration with customers by integrating your products into architectural plans, establishing design parameters, and sharing key manufacturability insights.

What you can do with Informed Design for Inventor

Author manufacturing constraints

Use Blockly codeblocks to limit building product customization based on manufacturing capabilities.

Preview manufacturing constraint rules

Preview and test rules during authoring to confirm correct parameter validation and model updates in response to edits.

Set output type availability

Define the range of outputs that your building product can produce – file types, templates, and model state representations.

Manage work-in-progress versions

Create multiple product definitions to iterate and experiment in drafts or release context-specific variations of a manufacturing-constrained product.

Informed Design for Revit and Inventor workflow

Author and publish building products

Building product manufacturers author and publish customizable, repeatable products using Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor.

Customize and Place building products in design files

Access, customize, and place building product templates in design files while respecting manufacturers' guardrails.

Automatically create output documentation

Using the Informed Design web portal, manufacturers can seamlessly generate all manufacturing documentation automatically.