Frequently Asked Questions
What is Informed Design?
Autodesk Informed Design is a platform-based solution that brings manufacturing information to the beginning of the design process to inform design decisions and improve project certainty, prevent errors, and accelerate our customers' workflows. It allows subcontractors to define and share their construction products with architects, including any allowable customization of their building products. This provides designers with the ability to customize a building product for their specific needs and know the results will be accurate and manufacturable for their building project.
Why has Autodesk developed Informed Design?
Autodesk is developing Informed Design to address several challenges in the construction industry. Currently, building design decisions are often not influenced by what can actually be constructed. Construction processes tend to be iterative, manual, and slow, posing high risks and uncertainties. Moreover, data and tools are often disconnected, preventing processes from working efficiently at scale.
There are several major factors motivating the shift towards industrialized construction. Firstly, there is a significant global demand for buildings that is currently unmet. Secondly, there are considerable challenges associated with attracting and retaining talent in the construction workforce. Lastly, the traditional construction methods are not scalable. Every project starts from scratch, creating a one-off process that often results in waste.
Without optimizing our processes, it becomes difficult to achieve the necessary improvements in the industry. Thus, by developing Informed Design, Autodesk aims to help support the streamline of construction processes, reduce waste, and meet the rising global demand for buildings.
What is the price plan for Informed Designed? How much does Autodesk Informed Design cost?
The Informed Design Add-ins for Inventor and Revit can be downloaded and installed at no cost. As of September 2025, generating manufacturing documentation through the Informed Design Web Portal or in our Revit Add-in also does not incur any token charge.
Informed Design products shared publicly are available to use in Revit by non-ACC users. But to publish Informed Design products you must be an ACC user, so the cost of ACC is a consideration for those sharing their products.
What types of subscriptions will be available for Informed Design?
To use Autodesk Informed Design, users will need the following licenses:
- For Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor, you will need a license for Autodesk Inventor 2024 and upcoming releases. To publish products with the Inventor Add-in, you'll need a license for Autodesk Docs as well.
- For Autodesk Informed Design for Revit, you will need a license for Autodesk Revit 2024 and upcoming releases.
- Informed Design products shared publicly are available to use in Revit by non-ACC users.
- You will need a license for Autodesk Docs to access privately-shared products if your Revit license is standalone, but both Revit and Autodesk Docs are included with the AEC Collection.
- For the Informed Design Web Application, you'll need a license for Autodesk Docs.
What languages is Informed Design available in?
Informed Design is only available in English at present.
Is Informed Design included in any of the Autodesk collections?
The AEC Collection includes Revit and Autodesk Docs; this covers the prerequisites for designing building projects with Informed Design products. The Informed Design Web App, the Informed Design Add-in for Revit, and the Informed Design Add-in for Inventor are available at no additional cost.
The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection includes Inventor and Fusion, but does NOT include Autodesk Docs. The Informed Design Add-in for Inventor can be used for product authoring at no cost via the PD&M Collection alone, but an additional license for Autodesk Docs is necessary to publish Informed Design products.
Those who want to both publish Informed Design products and use them in building design models will need Inventor to author products, Autodesk Docs to publish products, and Revit to design building models with those products.
What training content is available for Informed Design?
Customers can access the following sources to learn more:
How quickly does it take a user to learn how to use Informed Design?
Any user can learn how to learn the functionality of Autodesk Informed Design quickly, but the following knowledge and skill levels are pre-requisites:
- Intermediate Inventor usage (part modelling, creating assembly modelling, drawing creation)
- Basic understanding of iLogic
- Basic Revit usage
- Understanding of Autodesk Docs / BIM 360 Docs
How does a user report a problem or bug?
Users can open a support ticket in the same way they do for any product via the Autodesk Account. To ask questions regarding workflow best practices or feature usage, all customers can post within Informed Design Community Forum to engage directly with the product team.
What is the plan/future (Roadmap) for Informed Design?
Our latest public roadmap is 2025 & Beyond: Informed Design Product Roadmap
Will Informed Design be available or integrate with other Autodesk products?
At the date of release Autodesk Informed Design is only integrated with Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Revit.
What are the current limitations for Informed Design?
- Informed Design is not compatible with Vault. See: Inventor Project Structure
- Informed Design is not compatible with Inventor FrameGenerator. Framing components created will not transfer.
- Informed Design is not compatible with nested Revit families.
- Informed Design supports only the following System Families:
- Ceilings
- Roofs
- Walls
- Floors
- Stairs
Informed Design for Inventor
Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor is an add-in for Inventor which gives a product engineer and/or designers the ability to share their design models with designers using Autodesk Revit.
What version of Inventor does Informed Design work with?
As of September 2025, Informed Design for Inventor works with Autodesk Inventor version years 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Where do I download the Inventor add-in?
The Informed Design Add-in for Inventor can be downloaded HERE.
What level of Inventor skills are required to use Informed Design?
When using Autodesk Informed Design for Autodesk Inventor it is important users have a proficient level of experience using Inventor (part modelling, creating assembly modelling, model states, drawing creation).
Does Informed Design require the Inventor user to know iLogic?
You only need basic iLogic skills to publish Configurable products. Static products can be published without iLogic. See To Publish a Static Product to learn more.
Informed Design for Revit
Autodesk Informed Design Add-in for Autodesk Revit allows designers utilize product manufacturers products with the constraints defined by the manufactures in their design models.
What version of Revit does Informed Design work with?
As of September 2025, Informed Design for Revit works with Autodesk Revit version years 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Where do I download the Revit add-in?
The Informed Design Add-in for Revit can be downloaded HERE.
What level of Revit skills are required to use Informed Design?
When using Informed Design for Autodesk Revit, users should be experienced in manipulating views to efficiently navigate and analyze their design. This includes tasks such as adjusting the visibility of elements and managing view templates. Additionally, proficiency in loading, placing, and editing families is essential for accurately representing objects and components in the design. Knowing how to save and publish Revit models to Autodesk Docs is crucial for effective collaboration and documentation.
Does Informed Design work with Revit LT?
Autodesk Revit LT does not support the use of add-ins. A full version of Autodesk Revit is required to run Autodesk Informed Design.
Informed Design Web Application
The Autodesk Informed Design Web Application is a tool that facilitates the collaboration between product manufacturers and designers. Specifically, manufacturers using Autodesk Inventor can publish their product designs for Autodesk Revit designers to use during their design process. The Web Application also integrates with Autodesk Docs, enabling users to control permissions and generate output of all manufacturable product information directly from the designer's Revit model.
Who has access to the Informed Design web app?
The Informed Design Web App is typically used and managed by the product designer. This individual is responsible for publishing the product definition or generating outputs through the application.
What cloud security requirements does Informed Design follow?
Informed Design aligns with Autodesk Security framework which is designed around industry standards. Please refer to the Autodesk Trust Center is a customer facing website containing information about our security program, security advisories, third-party audit reports and certifications of our cloud products.
Informed Design and Autodesk Construction Cloud
Informed Design integrates with Autodesk Construction Cloud as app similar to our partners third-party applications connects.
Is it just ACC or does Informed Design work on BIM 360 as well?
Yes, Informed Design works across both Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM 360.
Is Informed Design available to use on both the Americas and European servers? ie. EU, and/or US server.
Informed Design integrates with ACC — the Files tool in Autodesk Docs — to manage access permissions, not for file storage or data regionalization. This lets your team use the familiar ACC environment to control who can work with your published products in the Informed Design Add-in for Revit and the Informed Design Web App. As of September 2025, Informed Design products may be published to and accessed from any Docs project folder, regardless of the ACC account's regional data storage. However, publishing to an ACC account based in the EU, Australia, UK, Germany, Canada, India, or Japan does NOT mean product data is stored and processed exclusively in that region. Product-related data in Informed Design is stored in our US-based Informed Design service and processed using our US-based APS Automation services.
For more on where user-defined data is stored, when it’s processed, and what regional implications that might have, check out Where Is My Data Stored? ACC Regional Support in Informed Design.
Who provides licenses to access the ACC project when working with Informed Design?
The licenses for accessing an ACC project when working with Informed Design are typically provided by the product manufacturer who is publishing to their own ACC project. These licenses are necessary for their team to access any information published to or saved within the project.
If users from outside the organization need to access the projects, they can use their own licenses under the "bring their own subscription" model. This model is applicable to Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, Autodesk Build, and Autodesk Takeoff.
Furthermore, project administrators have the capability to invite members to use a product on their project without requiring an account administrator to assign them a subscription.