Vault Data Standard and FDU (Factor Design Utilities)

Factory Design Utilities is an interoperable 2D and 3D factory layout and optimization solution that is used to design and communicate efficient layouts by creating a digital model of your factory.

With Factory Design, you can easily generate layout designs in AutoCAD by using the 2D asset library. At any time, your design can sync to Inventor. Corresponding 3D assets are then automatically populated over their 2D counterparts. More assets can be placed, and alterations can be made in the 3D layout. At any point, the 3D assembly can sync back to the original 2D drawing, updating all the AutoCAD drawings with the changes you made in the 3D model.

Important:

• When synchronizing the files from AutoCAD to Inventor, 2D and 3D layouts must have the same name and the folder location. Simply select the same folder location in Vault Data Standard for Inventor that you applied before in Vault Data Standard for AutoCAD. Do not specify another file number but leave the pre-set file name instead.

  Note: The Inventor 3D to AutoCAD 2D synchronization is a background only process and does not offer any file save dialog.
• Vault Data Standard is configured not to interact with Factory Asset Builder workflows, therefore Data Standard does not initialize using Asset Builder Save, Edit, or Publish commands. If you see that default settings are changed, contact your administrator.