AutoCAD Factory provides a number of Suite Workflows tools that enable you to create a bi-directional associative link between a 2D AutoCAD drawing and a 3D Inventor Factory layout. The link, called Layout Sync, can be established between Inventor and AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD Mechanical.
The four Suite Workflows commands are summarized as follows:
- Sync Inventor - Starts Inventor and creates a 3D factory layout from an open 2D drawing.
- Create from Inventor - Creates a new 2D AutoCAD drawing from an existing 3D factory layout.
- Update from Inventor - Any changes made in a 3D Inventor Factory layout are reproduced in the 2D AutoCAD drawing.
- Break Link with Inventor - Breaks the associative link between the AutoCAD and Inventor layouts.