Is this possible to do in Inventor Professional?

[jjcrocco]

Can Inventor Professional actually do low voltage wiring for a whole building?  I am looking to design low voltage wiring in a new building that was designed in Revit.  I can get a 3D drawing from Revit, and I want to import that into Inventor, do the Low voltage cabling design for the whole building, then export that back out (BIM) to go into Revit.  Is this even possible? 

[jjcrocco]

Can no one answer this question?  I dont use this product, yet!  I am looking for input from someone who does use it who may be able to say wether this is even possible.

[Lance127]

Inventor isn't the Product you are looking ofr, it's not really for that sort of thing. Take a look at Revit MEP

[jjcrocco]

I use Revit, but it does not have the capability to do what i want it to do.

Inventor has the wiring ability, and was wondering if it is possible to enlarge the scale to a whole building.

If not, is there any other program available?

[Lance127]

Do you have Revit or Revit MEP, they are 2 different products.

[JDMather]

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@jjcrocco wrote:

Inventor has the wiring ability, and was wondering if it is possible to enlarge the scale to a whole building.

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Size doesn't matter (well, within reason).
Just not sure the output would be what you are after.

[Lance127]

I remember running in to a limit on the size of a single part, but it was in miles so I doubt that would become an issue.

[jjcrocco]

I have revit MEP. I know it now has cable trays, but I am after the individual wiring, like cat5 distribution throughout the whole building.  I can model piping to be a .125 diameter cable, but it will then have fittings, etc, and I cant make a run and it tell me the length from end to end.  I also would like it to report where each end is, and a BOM.  Inventor, on a small scale, seems like it could work, not sure if it can navigate a 2 story, 80,000 sf office building.

[Lance127]

What's wrong with using electrical wire?

You could I guess in theory do it in Inventor but I certainily wouldn't want to try, since it would be like building a house with tweezers.

[JDMather]

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@Lance127 wrote:

I remember running in to a limit on the size of a single part, but it was in miles so I doubt that would become an issue.

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That is why I wrote (within reason), Inventor part limited to 10,000cm x 10,000cm x 10,000cm cube.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Limits-of-an-Inventor-part-or-assembly/m-p/2642600/h...

[jjcrocco]

Does 13 have electrical wire?  12 doesnt. If 13 does, I may have to install that and play with it to see.  I have been working on this idea on and off for the past 12 months, and didnt see that wire was NEW is 2013.

[JDMather]

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@jjcrocco wrote:

Does 13 have electrical wire?  12 doesnt. If 13 does, I may have to install that and play with it to see. 

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2012 does, every version if Inventor Professional or Routed Systems has wires and tools for routing the wires.

If your particular wire designation doesn't exist - simply add it to the library.