Autodesk Informed Design is a platform-based solution that brings manufacturing information to the beginning of the design process to inform design decisions and improve project certainty, prevent errors, and accelerate our customers' workflows. It allows subcontractors to define and share their construction products with architects, including any allowable customization of their building products. This provides designers with the ability to customize a building product for their specific needs and know the results will be accurate and manufacturable for their building project.
Autodesk is developing Informed Design to address several challenges in the construction industry. Currently, building design decisions are often not influenced by what can actually be constructed. Construction processes tend to be iterative, manual, and slow, posing high risks and uncertainties. Moreover, data and tools are often disconnected, preventing processes from working efficiently at scale.
There are several major factors motivating the shift towards industrialized construction. Firstly, there is a significant global demand for buildings that is currently unmet. Secondly, there are considerable challenges associated with attracting and retaining talent in the construction workforce. Lastly, the traditional construction methods are not scalable. Every project starts from scratch, creating a one-off process that often results in waste.
Without optimizing our processes, it becomes difficult to achieve the necessary improvements in the industry. Thus, by developing Informed Design, Autodesk aims to help support the streamline of construction processes, reduce waste, and meet the rising global demand for buildings.
Informed Design for Inventor is a complimentary add-in for Inventor, available for download and installation at no cost. However, generating manufacturing documentation through the Informed Design web portal incurs a nominal fee of 1/3 token per document (3 documents per token).
To use Autodesk Informed Design, users will need the following licenses:
Informed Design is only available in English at present.
All customers who have active licenses for hero products Inventor or Revit. This includes both stand-alone licenses of Inventor or Revit and licenses via the Product Design & Manufacturing (PD&M) and AEC Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Collections.
Customers can access the following sources to learn more:
Release Notes with detailed description of all new functionality and bug fixes can be found on the Autodesk Help.
Any user can learn how to learn the functionality of Autodesk Informed Design quickly, but the following knowledge and skill levels are pre-requisites:
Users can open a support ticket in the same way they do for any product via the Autodesk Account. To ask questions regarding workflow best practices or feature usage, all customers can post within Informed Design Community Forum to engage directly with the product team.
The public roadmap is available in the Informed Design Knowledge Center: 2024 & Beyond: Informed Design Roadmap
At the date of release Autodesk Informed Design is only integrated with Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Revit.
Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor is an add-in for Inventor which gives a product engineer and/or designers the ability to share their design models with designers using Autodesk Revit.
Informed Design for Inventor works with Autodesk Inventor 2024 and will be made available for upcoming releases.
The Informed Design add-in for Inventor can be downloaded from the product page or directly from https://informeddesign.autodesk.com/ by clicking on the information icon.
When using Autodesk Informed Design for Autodesk Inventor it is important users have a proficient level of experience using Inventor (part modelling, creating assembly modelling, model states, drawing creation).
Yes, at least basic level of skills using iLogic.
Autodesk Informed Design Add-in for Autodesk Revit allows designers utilize product manufacturers products with the constraints defined by the manufactures in their design models.
Informed Design for Revit works with Autodesk Revit 2024 and will be made available for upcoming releases.
The Informed Design add-in for Revit can be downloaded from the product page or directly from https://informeddesign.autodesk.com/ by clicking on the information icon.
When using Informed Design for Autodesk Revit, users should be experienced in manipulating views to efficiently navigate and analyze their design. This includes tasks such as adjusting the visibility of elements and managing view templates. Additionally, proficiency in loading, placing, and editing families is essential for accurately representing objects and components in the design. Knowing how to save and publish Revit models to Autodesk Docs is crucial for effective collaboration and documentation.
Autodesk Revit LT does not support the use of add-ins. A full version of Autodesk Revit is required to run Autodesk Informed Design.
The Autodesk Informed Design Web Application is a tool that facilitates the collaboration between product manufacturers and designers. Specifically, manufacturers using Autodesk Inventor can publish their product designs for Autodesk Revit designers to use during their design process. The Web Application also integrates with Autodesk Docs, enabling users to control permissions and generate output of all manufacturable product information directly from the designer's Revit model.
The Informed Design Web App is typically used and managed by the product designer. This individual is responsible for publishing the product definition or generating outputs through the application.
Informed Design aligns with Autodesk Security framework which is designed around industry standards. Please refer to the Autodesk Trust Center is a customer facing website containing information about our security program, security advisories, third-party audit reports and certifications of our cloud products.
Informed Design integrates with Autodesk Construction Cloud as app similar to our partners third-party applications connects.
Yes, Informed Design works across both Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM 360.
Currently, Informed Design is only supported on Americas servers. Therefore, when working on projects using Informed Design, they must be created on an Americas Server and not on a European Server.
The licenses for accessing an ACC project when working with Informed Design are typically provided by the product manufacturer who is publishing to their own ACC project. These licenses are necessary for their team to access any information published to or saved within the project.
If users from outside the organization need to access the projects, they can use their own licenses under the "bring their own subscription" model. This model is applicable to Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, Autodesk Build, and Autodesk Takeoff.
Furthermore, project administrators have the capability to invite members to use a product on their project without requiring an account administrator to assign them a subscription.
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Informed Design utilizes Autodesk Docs and folder permissions to manage access when using Informed Design for Inventor and Revit.
The folder permission levels are defined as follows:
| Permission level | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| View | View Only | View files, add private mark-ups and create issues. |
| View | View + Download | View and download files, add private mark-ups and create issues. |
| Create | View + Download + Publish Mark-Ups | View and download files, and create issues. |
| Create | View + Download + Publish Mark-Ups + Upload | View, download and upload files, and create issues. |
| Edit | View + Download + Publish Mark-Ups + Upload + Edit | Create folders, share your own files with members, view and edit any other files in that folder and publish mark-ups. |
| Manage | Full administration controls | Create folders, share files with members and view and edit any other files in that folder. With Manage permission, you can carry out the same folder tasks as a project administrator. |
Note: This information has been taken from the Autodesk Docs folder permissions help here.
To publish product releases with the Informed Design Add-in for Inventor:
Autodesk Docs: Your permission level in the target folder must be Create – ‘View + Download + Publish Mark-ups + Upload’ or higher.
To insert and update product instances with the Informed Design Add-in for Revit:
Autodesk Docs: Your permission level in the product’s containing folder must be View – ‘View Only’ or higher.
To assign instances from a Revit model in the Informed Design Web Portal
Autodesk Docs: Your permission level in the Revit model’s containing folder must be Create – ‘View + Download + Publish Mark-ups’ or higher.
Note: Users with View – ‘View and Download’ permission level in the Revit model’s containing folder can open the model in the Informed Design Web Portal, but they cannot assign instances.
To configure and submit a request for outputs in the Informed Design Web Portal:
Autodesk Docs: Your permission level in the target folder specified as the upload location for result files must be Edit or Manage.
To access the Releases tab for product administration:
Autodesk Docs: You must be a Project Administrator in the project that is selected in the header navigation bar.
Note: Project Administrators have Manage permissions to all folders. Docs allows Project Members with Manage permissions at the folder level to carry out project administrator tasks within that folder, but this access level is insufficient for release management in Informed Design.
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