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Integrated building design software featuring BIM and CAD tools.
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Building Products, Equipment & Fabrication
BIM for Product Manufacturers and Fabricators
Design, visualize, and simulate building products and equipment digitally, and create BIM-ready models to help win project bids
Workflow for building products, equipment, and fabrication design
Select your workflow:
Overview
Help improve bidding profitability, reduce costly errors, and promote better collaboration by demonstrating how your validated building product design will work in your client’s architectural context. Deliver compelling 3D sales presentations and BIM-ready content that helps set you apart from the competition.
Workflow
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Sales & estimating
Improve bidding profitability and create custom and engineer-to-order products with easy-to-use workflows that automate design and configuration processes.
Deliver 3D BIM-ready content that helps clients see how designs work in the proper architectural context.
Reuse existing 2D and 3D designs as starting points for your new design concepts to save time.
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Marketing & design communication
Easily create interactive sales presentations, animations, and visualizations from CAD models that demonstrate your unique value.
Use BIM processes to collaborate more effectively with architects, engineers, and builders, and prevent miscommunications that cause project delays.
Protect intellectual property by publishing simplified 3D representations of product models for use in Autodesk® Revit® and Autodesk® AutoCAD® software.
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Project management
Gain more control over design data with revision management capabilities and the ability to quickly find and reuse design data.
Reduce potential overhead cost and project delays caused by errors and lost data.
Provide a clear view into the decisions that impact your design decisions so you can be confident that your team is moving in the right direction.
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Project engineering
Digitally test the form, fit, and function of designs to make better decisions earlier in the process.
Automate the process of 3D modeling and documentation based on rules for configuring new products.
Optimize products for performance and material cost, resulting in fewer physical prototypes.
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Production engineering & manufacturing
Design, optimize, and communicate the most efficient factory layout. Analyze digital factory models before installing equipment to reduce risks.
Communicate better with manufacturing teams and avoid costly assembly errors by publishing interactive, 3D assembly instructions directly from your CAD data.
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Installation, commissioning, support & maintenance
Outline installation, commissioning, and maintenance activities to further differentiate from the competition.
Coordinate with other trades and inform them of coordination and collaboration issues that will need to be addressed during the project delivery cycle.
Provide mobile access to interactive, 3D assembly instructions so that field technicians, sales teams, and customers have the information they need.
All products for building products, equipment, and digital fabrication
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Inventor
Easy-to-use 3D mechanical design and documentation.
Inventor Publisher
Technical documentation software for creating 2D and 3D documentation.
Vault
Data management software for organizing, managing, and tracking data.
Factory Design Suite
Integrated factory layout design, optimization, and visualization.
Autodesk PLM 360
Cloud-based alternative to traditional product lifecycle management solutions.
Inventor Engineer-to-Order
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Simulation 360
Flexible simulation tools that take full advantage of the cloud.
Product Design Suite
Integrated 3D mechanical design, simulation, and visualization.
BIM 360 Glue
Cloud‐based BIM management supporting multidisciplinary collaboration.
Inventor Professional
3D mechanical design, simulation, routed systems, and tooling design.
Simulation
Software simulation tools for mobile, desktop, and cloud use.
Industry trends and topics
Make BIM and Digital Prototyping your competitive advantage
With the growing adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM), architects and contractors often require model-based, BIM-ready information from building equipment manufacturers and fabricators as part of the bid acceptance criteria. Autodesk can bridge the benefits of Digital Prototyping and BIM, helping manufacturers increase productivity, reduce costs, and achieve higher customer acquisition rates.
What customers are saying
Products they used
Watts Water Technologies, Inc.
Continually introducing innovative products, Water Watts Technologies outpaces its competition by transforming Digital Prototyping data into Building Information Modeling (BIM) content for its AEC customers.
Adolfson & Peterson Construction
This firm uses digital prototypes and BIM to aid construction coordination on a complex neutrino detection facility, reduce errors, and earn the trust of its university client.
Aluminum Curtain Wall Systems Inc.
With Digital Prototyping software from Autodesk, Aluminum Curtain Wall Systems Inc. boosts innovation, speeds design time, and streamlines the fabrication process for its innovative glass and aluminum curtain walls.
Dynamic Structures
By using Autodesk solutions for Digital Prototyping, Dynamic Structures is able to reduce the time it takes to revise part and assembly drawings for telescopes by an estimated 20%.
