& Construction

Integrated BIM tools, including Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D
& Manufacturing

Professional CAD/CAM tools built on Inventor and AutoCAD
& Entertainment

Entertainment content creation tools, including 3ds Max and Maya
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.
Informed Design overview video (1:56 min.)
Through customisable, parametric versions of your building products, customers can tailor designs within set parameters, reducing waste and non-viable products.
Promote smoother operations and avoid downstream delays and rework by equipping your customers with known-manufacturable and customisable versions of your building products.
Enhance collaboration with customers by integrating your products into architectural plans, establishing design parameters and sharing key manufacturability insights.
Blockly, a library for building beginner-friendly block-based programming languages, is a trademark of Google, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Author manufacturing constraints (video: 1:45 min.)
Use Blockly codeblocks to limit building product customisation based on manufacturing capabilities.
Preview manufacturing constraint rules (video: 1:26 min.)
Preview and test rules during authoring to confirm correct parameter validation and model updates in response to edits.
Set output type availability (video: 45 sec.)
Define the range of outputs that your building product can produce – file types, templates and model state representations.
Manage work-in-progress versions (video: 1:25 min.)
Create multiple product definitions to iterate and experiment in drafts or release context-specific variations of a manufacturing-constrained product.
– Abby Willets, R&D Engineer, Green Canopy Node
See how Informed Design for Revit and Inventor combine for design certainty.
Building product manufacturers author and publish customisable, repeatable products using Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor.
Access, customise and place building product templates in design files while respecting manufacturers’ guardrails.
Using the Informed Design web portal, manufacturers can seamlessly generate all manufacturing documentation automatically.