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Overview
Optimize your factory layout before it’s real
Autodesk® Factory Design Suite helps you design and communicate the most efficient manufacturing layout by creating a digital factory model. Quickly evaluate multiple what-if layout scenarios to determine the best solution before any equipment is installed. Factory-specific visualization and analysis tools help increase innovation, design efficiency, and communication.
View overview video (2:46 min.)
See what you can do
Work in an AutoCAD environment. (video: 1:19 min.)
Use the AutoCAD built for layout design
- Expedite designs with automated workflows
- Continue building on AutoCAD® skills
- Generate in-sync 2D and 3D digital factory layouts
Save time with one-click workflows
- Speed design with a library of digital factory content
- Easily search, modify, and reuse content
- Publish your own frequently used assets to the cloud
Explore exclusive AutoCAD functionality
- Analyze material flow directly in AutoCAD
- Optimize machine utilization and energy consumption
- Publish assets with multiple variants
Visualize your layout digitally. (video: 1:43 min.)
Facility layout design for AutoCAD
- Access a library of architectural elements
- Design the whole manufacturing facility faster
- Keep 2D and 3D data in sync
Visualize large facility layouts
- Aggregate layouts and machinery
- Combine data from various CAD systems
- Create a digital factory model anyone can review
Use laser scanner and detect clashes
- Accurately record any configuration
- Detect interferences easily
- Reduce errors tied to manual workflows
Create parametric assets. (video: 1:43 min.)
Design large complex assemblies
- Work with integrated simulation tools
- Accelerate designs with automation tools
- Share assets in the cloud
Create custom assets
- Author and publish smart assets
- Define landing surfaces and connectors
- Keep 2D/3D models in sync
Detect interferences early on
- Use clash detection tools
- Inspect, identify, and report interference
- Integrate point cloud workflows
Communicate factory design. (video: 1:03 min.)
Win bids with interactive 3D presentations
- Turn CAD data into compelling imagery
- Improve the design review process
- Help non-technical stakeholders understand your design
Bid profitably and meet tight deadlines
- Build 3D models from 2D drawings
- Test multiple layout scenarios
- Streamline projects using third-party CAD data
Communicate design intent
- Demonstrate operation of layout designs
- Produce cinematic-quality animations
- Present your layout design in motion
See what your company can do
Improve design efficiency and detect costly errors. (video: 2:41 min.)
Analyze for clashes and space restraints
- Perform an analysis before any equipment gets installed
- Minimize risks with clash detection tools
- Simulate the installation sequence of equipment
Go lean by optimizing layouts early
- Streamline manufacturing operations
- Improve manufacturing flexibility
- Analyze material flow and energy consumption
Maximize production lines
- Find the most efficient footprint possible
- Use modern workflows and point clouds
- Integrate point cloud workflows
Design equipment in the context of your customers' facility. (video: 2:18 min.)
Share assets with colleagues and clients
- Create custom 3D content for factory layouts
- Publish, share, and manage assets in the cloud
- Protect intellectual property when sharing designs
Design equipment and machine line layouts
- Use the industry’s best mechanical design tools
- Save time with interoperable layout workflows
- Create, modify, and reuse digital models of equipment
See your factory layout in action
- Show how your designs integrate with the facility
- Share assets online with your sales force—or the world
- Develop convincing interactive 3D material
Deliver the best possible solution to customers. (video: 2:46 min.)
Produce more compelling 3D sales tools
- Help nontechnical stakeholders understand design intent
- Impress clients with photorealistic visualizations
- Enhance communication with a 3D environment
Streamline design of bidding proposals
- Quickly iterate with 3D visual layout environment
- Accommodate changing customer requests
- Transform the design process to win competitive bids
See your digital factory layout in action
- Improve the factory design review process
- Accelerate the presales design process
- Bring designs to life to win business
