About Creating Assets
Create your own assets or use existing assets in Factory Design.
The Autodesk Inventor Factory Design Utilities provide you with predefined system content that is included with the product.
The Create Asset command enables you to create new data, or use existing data. The data is authored and published into a User Assets, User Cloud Assets, or Vault Assets library, with the provided system content.
What type of content can be used to create assets?
Standard Inventor parts and assemblies can be created and used as content for a factory library, or you can import existing Inventor part and assembly files. You can also import single or multiple solids created in an AutoCAD DWG file.
Can imported data from other CAD products be used to build content?
Content in the Factory Assets library can be parameterized to capture its intent in the Factory Layout assembly. Therefore, the data that drives it must contain the necessary parameters. The import process creates base features in Inventor that are representative of the geometry and topology in the source file. You can use Inventor commands to adjust the base features and add new features; however, you cannot modify or parameterize the base feature. If secondary Inventor features contain all required parameters necessary, you can use the imported data. For more information on importing CAD data, refer to the Inventor Help topic: Parts and Assemblies from other CAD systems.