If you are a manufacturer and work with the building product manufacturing segment—including HVAC, lighting, plumbing, doors/windows, and furniture systems—you have probably seen that many companies are requiring very specific content to be delivered for use in the AEC community. The process that drives the need for this type of content is known as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and is rapidly becoming the standard around the globe. This can present a significant challenge (but also new opportunities) for your organization and can drive a need for your organization to develop new strategies and workflows to deliver BIM-ready content for use by customers and distribution channels.
Autodesk’s solutions for Digital Prototyping can help the various disciplines involved in BIM to communicate and interpret design intent required to design, build, and operate a successful project. Through Digital Prototyping, project teams involved with BIM can better simulate performance and constructability of a project digitally before it’s built to deliver projects faster, with fewer errors and coordination issues, and at less cost.
Autodesk Inventor can allow manufacturers of building and plant products to produce BIM ready models for AEC consumers.
The BIM Exchange methodology aims to increase accuracy of designs from product fabricators to BIM modelers, increase product adoption in the marketplace, and reduce costly placement and type errors associated with rework of an already existing model designed in another CAD package.
