Inventor workflow

[warrentdo]

What is the workflow for using inventor with 360 products. Everything seems to be Revit.
Regards
Warren.

[asiteur]

Hi there,

There is only Revit examples for BIM 360 Team because that's the intended use.

For Inventor you should use the sister product Fusion Team, which has the same capabilities.

Luckily for you, you can do most with BIM 360 Team as well.

You can open and save Inventor data directly to BIM 360 Team by using Desktop Connector.

Open Inventor, create a partfile and save it to your Team hub by browsing to the folder.

If you want to use entire Inventor Projects on the Team hub this requires some careful setup of your projectfile but it works.

I'm not sure if you can use the Inventor <> Fusion 360 AnyCAD workflow, because that workflow officially needs Fusion Team. I've never tested this for BIM hubs. If this is crucial for you let me know and I will put some effort in it.

[warrentdo]

So hold on. I now need another product fusion team. So now I have 360 products for Revit but they work with inventor, but I also need fusion team. It's confusing enough regarding the 360 product doing similar thing but now we have the added complexity of fusion team. Is there a road map on how all Autodesk products , revit, inventor, fabcad mep, plant 3D to name a few to work together to do BIM (p as 1192-2) efficiently without a million different workflows. And they wonder why we are using different products for document management and CDE'S. And then we will get forge!
Thank you for you reply

[asiteur]

Hi there,

Autodesk kind of 'forgets' about people that use both Revit and Inventor, I agree.

It started out with only different branding, but the products have some differences now.

I'm quite sure that buying the extra product won't help very much because the data is in different 2 places.

Could you please describe how you would like to use/need the product?

Do you create production drawings? Do you create layouts? Want kind of data do you intend to store on the Hub? All data? Only data to share with customers, etc etc.

What are you getting Forge for? Forge is a programming platform, not a finished end-user product.

[warrentdo]

Hello Alexander

Sorry for the dealy and thank you for your reply.

We create all documents for the full life cycle of the products for all disciplines.

So yes Concept / manufacture / as built.

The data needs to fulfill the requirements of PAS 1192 so yes share with everyone..

We use Revit, Inventor, Autocad, plant 3D, fabcadMEP etc.

I'm looking at the best way to look after the data in a single CDE.

Regards

Warren.

[Anonymous]

Hi
Did you find a solution
on your challenge (CDE) ?

We use : PE Pipe  in Revit, Inventor 

I need an (CDE) and an easy way to make production drawings , of it in Revit?
(As you can in plan 3d. Pipe isometric drawings with Revit)

Do you use fabcadMEP  for pipe ?

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,

Bent Saaby

Billund Aquakulturservice A/S

https://www.billund-aqua.dk/

[kent_wold]

Is there a CDE that works with Inventor and other products? 

Does BIM 360 work with Vault? Or Inventor well? 

I haven't seen much discussion and my company is currently searching for a CDE that will accept not only CAD and Inventor but also have the data management and cloud based systems available in BIM 360 as a consulting engineering firm it seems Autodesk does not have a single solution for us. Vault is too limited and Fusion Lifecycle is pretty much geared towards manufacturing. BIM 360 does a lot of what we need done but will it work with the software we use as we do some manufacture as well and need Inventor for that as well as modeling of mechanical engineering projects. We currently do not use Revit but that could integrate in the future if we can use an Autodesk product or blend of products for our CDE... 

[Anonymous]

Hi, did anyone got any good findings in this non sense? We have also been working with Inventor for years and need to find an integration tool to used with Revit. Any info will be much appreciated.

[ROakley_Trility]

Hi Warren,

I'm trying to implement BIM360

We do multi-discipline full plant design.

Need to integrate Civil3d, Plant3d, MEP, Advance Steel, Inventor, Revit and Recap files (plus whatever software external consultants might send us).
Autodesk don't seem to understand what is required to provide full EPCM document management, the developers at autodesk live in a fantasy world (I guess that's what happens when sales people get promoted to management).
Did you come up with any workflows that actually function in a working environment.
Cheers
Rich.O

[3D4Play]

Me too. I'm using Inventor to create content for a BIM360 project. I need suggestions for recommended workflow(s) in order to get my inventor files into the BIM360 model. I suspect this could be as simple as exporting out the model as any file format readable by Revit, and let the BIM360 side of the team figure out how to drop it into the model. It's also been suggested that I use Desktop Connect, but I don't think I really need it if my suggestion above will work in some way. I do need to reference their Revit geometry somehow - or at least be able to capture their model origin - but otherwise I don't need to work inside the BIM360 environment. Any advice?