AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset can import data from Autodesk Inventor. This capability allows designers of manufactured mechanical building system components and architectural elements to export digital design geometry without the loss of data. This data can then be imported by architects designing buildings and mechanical systems with AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset.
Previously, exporting a building component from Inventor incurred some loss of information when the data was imported into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset. Such information loss may be necessary to protect the intellectual property of the designer of the manufactured item, or to reduce the complexity and size of the data being passed to the architectural or engineering model. To achieve the desired level of information in the exported data, Inventor now employs a custom data reduction of the architectural or engineering model.
In order for a building component to be correctly imported into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset, it must be prepared for export in Autodesk Inventor, and be saved as a Building Component Autodesk Exchange file (*.adsk).
When you import an Inventor building component into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset, you can choose whether the component is imported as a multi-view block or a block.
When importing building components from Inventor into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset, you can change the original UCS. For example, a building component could have been designed in Inventor using a coordinate system with the X and Z axes as the horizontal ground plane axes and the Y axis as the vertical axis. When importing into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset however, a different coordinate system with the X and Y axes as the horizontal ground plane axes and the Z axis as the vertical axis is needed, in order to avoid importing the component lying on its back. In this case, the UCS can be changed during the import of the part.
If a building component has been imported into AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset, and then a change is made to the original file, then on re-import you can choose whether the existing multi-view block or block is overwritten with the updated component, or whether the new version should be imported as a new block or multi-view block.