Informed Design for Revit

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit: Design with known-manufacturable building products

Autodesk Revit 2024 or a more recent version, as well as Autodesk Docs are required to use Informed Design for Revit.

What is Informed Design for Revit?

Empower your designs with customizable, manufacturable building products for unparalleled certainty and quality. 

  • Template Discovery: Explore building product templates for seamlessly incorporating manufacturing-level detail into your design files.

  • Customization: Tailor building products to align with your building's requirements, ensuring compliance with manufacturers' specifications.

  • Certainty: Confirm design decisions are accurate and manufacturable to reduce project risk and prevent errors. 

Informed Design overview video

What is Informed Design for Revit?

Empower your designs with customizable, manufacturable building products for unparalleled certainty and quality. 

  • Template Discovery: Explore building product templates for seamlessly incorporating manufacturing-level detail into your design files.

  • Customization: Tailor building products to align with your building's requirements, ensuring compliance with manufacturers' specifications.

  • Certainty: Confirm design decisions are accurate and manufacturable to reduce project risk and prevent errors. 

Informed Design overview video
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Browse manufacturer content

Browse catalogs of known-manufacturable building products for use in Revit projects.
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Customize with certainty

Manufacturer capabilities and limitations are enforced as you customize the product to suit your needs.
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Insert pre-generated variations

Browse the list of validated product variations to place instances quickly and easily.
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Update and replace

Modify the values of existing instances to configure replacements. Swap out-of-date products with the manufacturer’s latest product release.
Browse manufacturing hero image

Browse manufacturer content

Browse catalogs of known-manufacturable building products for use in Revit projects.

Customize with certainty

Manufacturer capabilities and limitations are enforced as you customize the product to suit your needs.
Customize with certainty hero image
Insert pre-generated variations hero image

Insert pre-generated variations

Browse the list of validated product variations to place instances quickly and easily.

Update and replace

Modify the values of existing instances to configure replacements. Swap out-of-date products with the manufacturer’s latest product release.
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"Designing with constraints doesnt curb my creativity it gives me choices I know will all work."

— Benjamin Hall, Architect , Green Canopy Node
Courtesy of Green Canopy NODE

Informed Design for Revit and Inventor workflow

See how Informed Design for Revit and Inventor combine for design certainty.

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    Author and publish building products

    Building product manufacturers author and publish customizable, repeatable products using Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor.

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    Customize and Place building products in design files

    Access, customize, and place building product templates in design files while respecting manufacturers' guardrails.

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    Automatically create output documentation

    Using the Informed Design web portal, manufacturers can seamlessly generate all manufacturing documentation automatically.

Questions? We have answers.

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit is a Revit Add-in enabling design professionals to explore building product templates, tailor them, and seamlessly incorporate them into design files, ensuring traceability as a known, manufacturable component.

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit is leveraged by design professionals utilizing Revit to effectively convey design intent for building projects.

Revit is a comprehensive Building Information Modeling (BIM) software that offers tools for architectural design, structural engineering, MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems, and construction. It enables professionals to create, model, and document building projects in a collaborative environment.

Informed Design for Revit is an add-in specifically designed to enhance the functionality of Autodesk Revit. It provides additional capabilities for accessing building product templates, customizing them, and seamlessly integrating them into design files. Informed Design for Revit focuses on optimizing design communication and facilitating the use of manufacturable building components within the Revit workflow.Â