This release introduces new asset workflows and tools for converting non-factory data into factory layout components. Expanded property definitions let you attach more information to your assets, allowing greater flexibility in managing and maintaining the assets that drive your designs.
Point cloud feature enhancements include data synching between AutoCAD, Inventor, and Navisworks. ReCap integration provides easy access to your Real View scans.
The following summarizes the new features in the 2016 and 2016 Feature Update Pack releases.
New features are designed to streamline workflows and increase flexibility:
- Replace an object with an asset
- Add placeholder assets to layouts
- Update placed assets
- Define additional user asset properties
- Change placed asset model parameters in AutoCAD
- Export asset properties
- Convert 3D models to Factory assets
- Batch publish AutoCAD blocks as assets
- Batch explode blocks for asset editing
- Add 3D publishing options in Inventor Factory
Increased layout load times and workflow enhancements improve speed and efficiency:
- Performance improvements
- Access additional factory commands from the context menu
- Insert and ground a model at the layout origin in Inventor
- Sync Inventor layout to Navisworks
- Control asset tooltip visibility in the asset browser
- Organize your favorite assets
- Finish a command after placing one asset in Inventor
- Define file location when creating a sub-layout
Data syncing and easy tool access help you manage point cloud data.