Autodesk Releases Informed Design

Autodesk has unveiled Autodesk Informed Design, a cloud-based solution that connects design and manufacturing workflows to support the building design and construction process. Informed Design allows architects to work with customizable, pre-defined building products and manufacturers to share their products with design stakeholders.

Informed Design unlocks industrialized construction – the application of manufacturing principles to the built environment – and will help transform the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry.

“The way the AECO industry works today is not sustainable or scalable. For the industry to keep pace, it needs to build more, faster and more sustainably. The answer is industrialized construction,” said Ryan McMahon, director and general manager, Informed Design at Autodesk. “Autodesk Informed Design connects design and make from day one and brings industrialized construction workflows to reality. Our solution is unique because it empowers architects to design with certainty and validate their plans in real-time, while product managers and engineers can share accurate manufacturing information with design teams. As a result, projects are completed quicker, with higher quality and generate less waste.”

Informed Design is part of Autodesk’s Design and Make Platform environment, which includes cloud-connected software solutions that unite teams, data and workflows across entire project lifecycles. 

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Informed Design is available globally as a free add-in for two of Autodesk’s industry solutions:

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit allows design professionals to design with known-manufacturable building products. Capabilities include:

• Template discovery: Explore building product templates to incorporate manufacturing-level detail into design files.
• Customization: Tailor building products to align with a building’s requirements, enabling compliance with the manufacturers’ specifications.
• Certainty: Confirm design decisions are accurate and manufacturable to reduce project risk and prevent errors.

Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor enables product managers and product engineers to align their manufacturing capabilities with customer requirements. This add-in for Inventor 2024 supports design and manufacturing processes. Capabilities include:

• Collaboration: Collaborate with designers by creating parametric models of your building products and confirm that only compliant versions are used.
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) content creation: Define BIM content to confirm your building products meet project requirements and are compatible with other components and industry standards.
• Product documentation: Simplify the generation of product documentation at scale and generate the necessary outputs for fabrication.

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Green Canopy NODE, a construction technology company tackling the housing and environmental crises, has been using early access versions of Informed Design for Revit and Informed Design for Inventor to support its building design and engineering processes:

“Autodesk Informed Design has shown that there’s a way to bring customized details, good aesthetics and quality engineering into a product that can be mass produced,” said Benjamin Hall, senior product manager, Green Canopy NODE. “Designing with constraints doesn’t curb my creativity – it gives me choices I know will work. And that is good for the planet, the building’s inhabitants and for the building industry.”