© 2011 Autodesk Publish Autodesk® Inventor® Building Components for Consumption in AutoCAD® MEP and Revit® MEP Jay Ayala Solutions Engineer

© 2011 Autodesk Class Summary Publish Inventor files for AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP Learn how to take Autodesk Inventor assemblies of manufacturer's building products and publish them for use with both AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP. If you are a building product manufacturer, you need to see how to take advantage of this. If you are a building design professional and have been looking for manufacturers content, this is a great way to facilitate your need.

© 2011 Autodesk Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:  Use BIM Exchange Tools in Autodesk Inventor 2012 to publish *.adsk files.  Import *.adsk files into Autodesk Revit 2012 and create family content.  Import *.adsk files into Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2012 and create content.  Import *.adsk files into Autodesk AutoCAD 2012 as 3D Blocks.

© 2011 Autodesk Why is this important? We can’t use the software because there is not enough content. Protecting Intellectual Property. Competitive Marketing Advantage.

© 2011 Autodesk Software we will cover.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Inventor 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Inventor Open the Source Files. 2.Review the Source Files to see what we are dealing with. 3.Prepare for the BIM Exchange Tools. 4.Assign an appropriate UCS to the model. 5.Leverage the Shrink-wrap tool in the BIM Exchange the contextual ribbon. 6.Assign any necessary MEP Connectors to the assembly. 7.Publish the *.adsk

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Revit MEP 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Revit MEP Open the *.adsk file. 2.Review and approve the content. 3.Save your new content file as an *.rfa family file for use in projects.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP MvPart 1.Open the *.*.adsk file. 2.Import Building Component as an MvPart. 3.Add the part to your catalogs.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP MvBlock 1.Open the *.*.adsk file. 2.Import Building Component as an MvBlock.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2012 MvPart - Block 1.Open the *.*.adsk file. 2.Import Building Component as a Block.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Inventor 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Inventor 2012 – Best Practices - Suppress Internal Components then publish 1.Open the Source Files. 2.Suppress Internal Components. 3.Execute the BIM Exchange Tools. 4.Publish the *.adsk

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Revit MEP 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk Revit MEP Insert the newly created *.rfa family file into your project.

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2012

© 2011 Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD MEP MvPart 1.Insert the newly created MvPart file into your project. 2.Insert the newly created MvBlock file into your project. 3.Insert the newly created Block file into your project.

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