Factory options establish default settings applicable to your factory design layouts. Some settings apply at the application level, others at the document level. The options are accessed through two tabs located with the applications options and accessible from the application menu by selecting Options.
On the Factory tab you specify the various parameters related to:
| Transportation Defaults | Includes properties for transportation type, travel speed, cost rate, load time, unload time, directionality, and flow type. |
| Operation Defaults | Includes properties for operation type, processing time, and setup time. |
| Station Defaults | Includes properties for setup cost rate, processing cost rate, uptime percentage, and energy consumption. |
| Shift Defaults | Includes properties for hours per shift and number of shifts. |
| Job Defaults | Includes properties for desired production rate, part quantity, and batch size. |
For more specific information see Factory Option Default Settings.
On the Factory Assets tab you enable and specify the location of the cloud-based factory assets and user defined assets.
Cloud-based Assets
You can use assets that are located on the factory cloud server. Cloud assets are downloaded on demand and deposited in the Local Cloud asset library on disk. Default local paths are established during installation. You can specify alternate locations for cloud-based assets.
User Assets
User-defined factory assets are authored in Inventor. The location of those assets is defined in a related Inventor project file (.ipj). In order to have the 2D representations of those user assets available in the AutoCAD Factory Design Utilities you must specify the appropriate Inventor project file. Each library listed in the project file is added as an asset library.
Synchronizing AutoCAD and Inventor Files
You can now synchronize 2D drawings to 3D models. Set the DWG file’s associated project file. In AutoCAD, the DWG file’s associated project file is used by the Factory Asset Browser to show the associated assets (if a library is configured in the project file). When synching AutoCAD to Inventor, The DWG file’s associated project file is used to set the current project file in Inventor. Confirm your change when the dialog box appears; your 2D drawing will sync to the 3D model using the project you have identified in AutoCAD.