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. 

Why use Informed Design for Revit?

Improved Design Quality

Designers can customize and incorporate accurate and manufacturable building product templates into their designs, confirming the manufacturability and feasibility of their specified products.

Increase workload capacity

Automate the generation and insertion of Revit Family instances based on customized templates, reducing manual effort and saving time in the design process.

Reduce errors and rework

Designers can prevent downstream errors by including construction products that are known to be accurate and manufacturable, minimizing rework and improving overall project efficiency.

What you can do with Informed Design for Revit

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.

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 Swap out-of-date products with the manufacturer’s latest product release.

Informed Design for Revit and Inventor workflow

Author and publish building products

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

Customize and Place building products in design files

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

Automatically create output documentation

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