About Placing Assets
A factory design can be populated with component data from multiple sources.
You can insert assets that exist in the Factory Assets library or you can insert external content. The Factory Assets library contains part and assembly models for use in a Factory Layout assembly. The System Assets directory contains content provided with the Inventor Factory Design Utility and the User Assets directory is for content that you publish. You access the Factory Assets library from the Asset Browser.
Apart from the factory assets supplied with the Factory Design Utilities, additional assets (or Cloud-based content) can also be accessed and downloaded from the Autodesk Cloud server. The cloud-based assets in the Asset Library are distinguishable from supplied factory content with this icon . When a new cloud-based asset is added, it appears like this
for a period of two weeks to distinguish it from older content. Once the asset is downloaded, the icon appears like this
. If a newer, updated version of a downloaded factory asset exists, its icon assumes this appearance
.