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We covered key updates, upcoming features, and answered some great questions from the audience. Below are some of the FAQs from the session:
1. Does each publish a transaction to the cloud between Inventor / Revit / Inventor have a token consumption factor?
The publish transaction on the Inventor side, RFA generation for consumption in Revit and the Insert workflow in Revit do not consume tokens. Output generation in the Informed Design Web App currently consumes zero tokens but will sometime in the future (TBD) begin consuming some number or fraction of tokens per output generated.
2. Is the Informed Design Web App different app than the regular Autodesk Viewer?
The Informed Design Web App uses the Autodesk Viewer.
3. Do these generated RFA variants also have a token cost seeing as the APS APIs are being used?
This is a frequent question internally regarding token usage in the APS API. The RFAs Informed Design generates for variants do not have a token cost when used in the Informed Design Revit workflows. RFA generation via the API (by 3rd parties) will be subject to token consumption in the future.
4. From an Inventor team perspective who does not use Revit, we found that a cloud account is required and that was difficult to determine. Typically, Inventor users use Vault and not a cloud solution so can this be made clearer?
Thank you for pointing that out. Yes, I think we can make it clearer, so a ticket will be created to log this request, and we will address it in a future version of Informed Design.
5. From a Manufacturer to an Architect: We work with many different contractors/architects so wondering what is the expected/assumed workflow? We create the ACC and have the GC / Architect connect? GC creates the ACC or does the architect create the ACC? What happens to the products after project completion?
We expect a variety of approaches to the workflows Informed Design (IND) makes possible between the Manufacturers and Contractors/Architects based on the nature of the business relationship and the B2B processes agreed upon. We think, ideally, a manufacturer (who Is Authoring & Publishing the IND Product) should have their own ACC Account where they can publish and manage their products. The Manufacturer can then make IND Products accessible to various contractors/architects via ACC Bridge. IND has an integration with ACC Bridge such that IND Products published to ACC Project/Folders that have been bridged are accessible to all Projects/Folders that have been bridged to. This means that a manufacturer need only Publish an IND Product to a single location (in their ACC account) that can be made accessible to 1 or more contractors/architects. After project completion, the manufacturer can turn “automation” off for bridged Projects which would terminate access to any IND Products published to those Projects.
6. The categories are hard-coded and geared towards buildings- looking at the larger ecosystem, there's a gap for civil infrastructure.
Yes. Categories for the Informed Design (IND) Inventor to Revit workflow are necessarily hard coded to what is currently supported by Revit. Once the IND API is available, there will be nothing to prevent 3rd parties (or us here at Autodesk) from integrating IND with other products (like Civil 3D) for other workflows that involve other kinds of metadata (i.e. categories) being attached/associated to the outputs.
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