Autodesk Inventor
The default settings for the Material Flow Analysis can be found in the Application Options of either Architecture or Mechanical. Each asset and flow criteria can be tweaked with the Factory Object Properties palette.
product focus
2012
The process of sending the information to Inventor from an AutoCAD-based product is done with the ‘Send to Inventor’ command located on the Factory Tab.
3D VISUAL LAYOUT The Inventor component of the Suite is where the planning in the 2D layout comes to fruition. This will open Inventor. Place the DWG Overlay and optionally (setting on the Factory Tab of Application Options) place the 3D versions of the 2D blocks automatically. Once the DWG Overlay is in Inventor, it can be updated, repositioned, layers can be turned off and on, and transformed for scaling or relative positioning. Updates will appear if the 2D layout change after it is brought into Inventor so there is no need to start over after a 2D layout change.
With the Factory component of Inventor you can either place the DWG manually and then place the assets with the Auto Place tool, or have it pushed from the AutoCAD side. The method chosen will depend on how your company is structured with different users completing perhaps very different tasks. Factory Standard users will not have Inventor on their machines, for example, but will do the Material Flow Analysis.
May 2011
ASSET BUILDER Two options exist on the suite launcher for creating factory assets. Factory Assets will launch Inventor and ask for one of three options, which will start asset authoring. Use the first two options if you are modeling from scratch. The last option is reserved for those models that have already been created, and need to be authored directly and subsequently published to the user/ network library.
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