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    Double-sided link to Revit

    Status: New Idea
    by BiktimirovK on ‎11-02-2012 10:08 AM

    I need updated link from *.iam to *.rvt file, with Axes and Levels support. I need possibility of using linked *.rvt geometry and axes via drawing creation.

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    Export to spreadsheet to compute ROI for a layout or factory project

    Status: New Idea
    by Employee mcmahor on ‎02-10-2013 05:29 AM

    Several customers have now requested that FDS allow users to compute the Return On Investment for their projects. This would allow users to understand project costs earlier in the design phase and have faster iteration of design optimization. 

     

    Uses:

    • Examine project costs to make sure designs are within budget
    • Study several different designs to see which has the best results (is my design getting better or worse with these options?)
    • Simplify the transfer of cost data to analysts for a comprehensive study

    How it could work:

    • Factory assets have attributes associated with costs (machine cost, consumables, energy consumption, throughput, utilization, yield, etc). Some of these are standard, some are user created, all are populated with user data.
    • Assets are placed as required in a project or layout 
    • User selects relevant portions of a project and layout and exports to spreadsheet
    • Cost attributes of selected assets are placed in a spreadsheet for calculation
    • Optionally, users can select a spreadsheet template for the type of analysis they want to perform
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    dwerner

    Autodesk Factory Design Suite

    Status: Future Consideration
    by dwerner on ‎01-22-2013 05:34 AM

    The ultimate should include the REVIT family of products.  Looks like I will have to purchase the Building Design Suite to get more of the products I need and forgo the Factory Design Utilities since it can not be purchases out side of the suite.  It is to Costly to purchase the Factory design suite and then purchase the REVIT products along with it at $5,500 each ($15,000).

     

     

    Status: Future Consideration
    Thanks for the feedback. for this release, we had received customer feedback that was contrary to this, believe it or not. It was felt that it would make deployment of the suite more difficult across an enterprise. As the bulk of our customer cross section have the workflows split into two camps - ie those that design the building and those that design the layout - our direction in development has been toward supporting better interaction between the two disciplines. 2014 has embarked down this path by allowing Revit data to be incorporated into the layout environment. We will continue to improve and expand this workflow in future releases.
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    Include Connector in Published iPartsand iAssemblies

    Status: New Idea
    by Valued Contributor MattH_Work on ‎11-21-2012 08:02 AM

    Allow us to include the green connector in iParts. this way we can use already created iPart factories / children for assets. We have occasion to use Factory design utilities with iParts factories which contain 100's of variations. I do not want to publish them as individual assets one at a time!

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    Toned view of ACAD link

    Status: Comments Requested
    by BiktimirovK on ‎11-02-2012 10:18 AM

    I need have possibility of tone link from *.dwg file.

    Using intersection feature with *.dwg link.

    Using measurement feature with linked *.dwg file

    I need possibility of using linked geometry via drawing creation

    Status: Comments Requested
    Not sure what is meant by tone link. Can you add more detail please?
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    Flatten and Combine feature in ACAD

    Status: Solution Provided
    by Employee mcmahor on ‎08-30-2012 04:38 PM

    This is a productivity enhancement. Basically customers spend a lot of time exploding blocks down to geometry and then creating a single block. This request is to automatically:   

    • Flatten all nested block refs down to geometry   
    • Create a block of the resulting geometry, moving all geometry to a user specified layer optionally   
    • Instancing the block back into the DWG
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