The convergence of product manufacturing and building design is an emerging trend in the industry. For manufacturers, establishing and strengthening their digital relationship with architects is crucial. Through connected workflows, they can better understand the architects' needs and preferences and, in turn, deliver products that accurately meet these requirements. This digital connectivity not only enhances the working relationship between manufacturers and architects but also optimizes the overall design and construction process.
Summary
Collaborate with architectural designers by creating configurable models of your building products. This simplifies the generation of product documentation at scale and effortlessly generates the necessary outputs for fabrication. It is best used by manufacturers looking to productize their offering and give architectural designers a model configurator directly embedded in Revit.
Entitlements Required
Inventor, Revit, Docs, (Tokens)
Product Versions
2026, 2025, 2024
Important References
Website - Informed Design for Inventor
Website - Informed Design for Revit
https://videos.autodesk.com/zencoder/content/dam/autodesk/www/products/informed-design-for-inventor/fy24/overview/videos/what-is-informed-design-for-inventor-video-1920x1080.mp4
Summary
A live connection between Inventor and Revit to push and pull models. This approach is most effective in a project-based design environment, where custom applications of mechanical design are necessary. SolidWorks can also be substituted for Inventor. This approach is currently in beta.
Entitlements Required
Inventor, Revit, Docs
Product Versions
2025, 2024, 2023
Important References
Help - About Data Exchanges for Inventor
Help - About Data Exchanges for Revit
Add-in - Data Exchange for Inventor
Add-in - Data Exchange for Revit
Add-in - Data Exchange for SolidWorks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7xoNaRH2k
Summary
Use this approach if you have customers continuously submitting orders for custom configurations of your product. This is a web-based configurator approach that you can deploy by utilizing iLogic rules from an Inventor design alongside your own custom code to give end-users the ability to configure your product. File downloads available after the model is configured include Inventor parts and assemblies, Revit families, drawings, or a bill of materials.
Entitlements Required
Inventor, (Tokens)
Product Versions
Latest and previous 3 versions
Important References
Help - About iLogic Functionality
Visual Studio Template - Design Automation for Inventor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXBTW2Gsuc
Summary
A way to coordinate models between Inventor and Revit. This approach is most effective in a project-based design environment, where custom applications of mechanical design are necessary. Inventor maintains a reference to the primary Revit project and exports a new Revit project just containing the mechanical design. The new Revit project can then be imported back into the primary Revit project for a closed-loop workflow.