Autodesk Factory Design Suite is an integrated 2D and 3D factory layout and optimization solution that can help you create more efficient factory layouts by developing a digital model of your factory.

Autodesk^® Factory Design Suite helps you design and experience your factory before a brick is ever laid. It brings the benefits of digital prototyping to the factory floor so you spend less time drafting, and more time optimizing and visually communicating factory layouts. Tight integration among Autodesk^® software creates highly efficient workflows with no translation issues. Autodesk Factory Design Suite adds factory-specific functionality to AutoCAD^®, Autodesk^® Inventor^®, and Autodesk^® Navisworks^® software. It combines that functionality with Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® Design and Autodesk^® Showcase^® visualization software. The result is improved innovation, collaboration, and flexibility in designs, leading to greater profits.

Create factory layout models that help you quickly evaluate multiple what-if layout scenarios, so you can determine the best solution before any equipment is installed. When it comes time to add equipment, use working digital models created in Inventor. Check flow of materials and collision/interference with Navisworks to make sure things will run smoothly. Use factory-specific visualization tools to impress potential clients with immersive and interactive layout proposals in 3D rather than difficult-to-interpret multi-layered 2D drawings. Factory Design Suite can optimize your factory layout process and create designs much faster than traditional factory layout workflows.

Autodesk Factory Design Suite comes in three levels to meet the needs of the designer. View our product matrix to see if Factory Design Suite Standard, Premium, or Ultimate is the best fit for you.

Benefits:

• Analyze existing 2D layouts for more efficient material flow and transform layout liabilities into profit-generating assets
• Incorporate Point Cloud scans to capture the as-built state of your factory, drastically reducing manual measurement
• Purpose-built commands and a focused environment for rapidly designing factory layouts optimized for efficiency, quality, and flexibility
• Smart facility objects such as walls, doors, windows and column grids, make it easy to resize and edit each model based on your layout requirements
• Utilize a large library of parametric factory content (conveyors, material handling equipment, robots, electrical equipment, and more) instead of creating them manually
• It costs up to 68 percent less to purchase Autodesk Factory Design Suite than to buy the component products individually

Autodesk Factory Design Suite is an integrated 2D and 3D factory layout and optimization solution that can help you create more efficient factory layouts by developing a digital model of your factory.

	Factory Specific Functionality AutoCAD® and Autodesk® Inventor® software in the Autodesk® Factory Design Suite are enhanced with factory-specific functionality that helps you create layout designs... Factory Specific Functionality AutoCAD® and Autodesk® Inventor® software in the Autodesk® Factory Design Suite are enhanced with factory-specific functionality that helps you create layout designs... more quickly than with traditional AutoCAD workflows. Autodesk Factory Design Suite supports the DWG™ file format and makes it easy to move from your familiar AutoCAD 2D environment and experience the benefits of 3D—That means you can continue to use valuable legacy data and improve your workflow without making drastic workflow changes.
	Communicate With Realistic Visualizations Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® Showcase® software help communicate compelling layout ideas to stakeholders quickly and rapidly... Communicate With Realistic Visualizations Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® Showcase® software help communicate compelling layout ideas to stakeholders quickly and rapidly... by creating 3D visual layouts with simple drag-and-drop techniques. Instead of delivering 2D drawings, impress potential clients and stakeholders with immerse interactive animations and stunning near photo-realistic renderings of 3D layouts.
	Analyze Layouts for Efficiency Autodesk® Navisworks® helps analyze your layout for efficient material flow, machine utilization, and energy consumption... Analyze Layouts for Efficiency Autodesk® Navisworks® helps analyze your layout for efficient material flow, machine utilization, and energy consumption... in the early stages of layout design when changes can be easily made. Identify non-value-added costs incurred by transporting material within the factory, and quickly consider multiple what-if scenarios to optimize your layout. Improve manufacturing flexibility and efficiency by designing factory layouts that help reduce waste in all forms.
	Intelligent Digital Prototypes Create accurate digital prototypes of custom assets with built-in intelligence, such as connectors and a landing surface... Intelligent Digital Prototypes Create accurate digital prototypes of custom assets with built-in intelligence, such as connectors and a landing surface... that allow for easy placement in your layout environment. You can even include models from suppliers in your layout regardless of CAD format, shrink-wrapping and stripping them of unwanted details. This speeds the design creation process and provides a great understanding of the way the factory will function. The accuracy of the assets is also useful in communicating the design to stakeholders and creating compelling imagery. Generate Installation Drawings Create installation drawings directly from a validated and optimized digital factory model and decrease the time you spend manually creating and updating installation drawings. Change it once, change it everywhere. Because drawings are associated to the factory layout model, they automatically update whenever layout design changes. With comprehensive tools for generating accurate engineering and installation documentation directly from the 3D model, Factory Design Suite can help you spend more time innovating and less time drawing.
	Navisworks Project Review and Coordination Autodesk® Navisworks® software provides advanced tools for analysis, simulation, and communication of project information. Navisworks Project Review and Coordination Autodesk® Navisworks® software provides advanced tools for analysis, simulation, and communication of project information. Multi‐disciplinary design data created in building information modeling (BIM), digital prototyping, and process plant design applications can be combined into a single integrated project model. Clash and interference detection helps spot potential issues early in the design. Without Navisworks to bring together information from all disciplines, these issues are often not discovered until construction.Comprehensive 4D simulation, animation, and photo-realism capabilities enable users to demonstrate design intent and simulate construction, helping to drive insight and predictability. Real‐time navigation and walk-throughs combine with a review toolset to support collaboration among the project team.

Products	Standard Edition	Premium Edition	Ultimate Edition
Design
Autodesk Factory Design Utility
Autodesk Showcase
Autodesk Vault Basic
AutoCAD
AutoCAD ReCap
AutoCAD Raster Design
AutoCAD Mechanical
AutoCAD Architectural
Autodesk Navisworks Simulate
Autodesk 3ds Max Design
Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Navisworks Manage
Autodesk Inventor Professional
Cloud Based Services
Autodesk 360 Inventor Optimization
Autodesk 360 Rendering
Autodesk Green Building Studio

Standard Edition
This edition is for layout designers, drafters, and detailers who need a foundational set of tools to efficiently design, document, and share drawings in the DWG file format in a single economical and convenient package.  It allows you to do more than simply create 2D footprints of your layouts with AutoCAD.  This edition, which includes a large library of factory content, adds unique factory-specific functionality in AutoCAD®, allowing you to create factory layouts much faster than traditional 2D-based workflows, as well as analyze layouts for material flow efficiency.

Premium Edition
This edition is for system integrators and manufacturers who want to create digital factory models to improve communication and make better layout decisions digitally before any equipment is installed and commissioned on the factory floor. The Premium Edition optimizes existing AutoCAD® and Inventor® software workflows with factory-specific functionality, allowing you to build digital factory models to easily try different “what if” scenarios, produce compelling visualizations to market ideas more successfully and explore factory layouts with interactive 3D virtual walk-through and fly-through.

Ultimate Edition
This edition is ideally suited for machine builders and system integrators who need to win more business with advanced tools that can design, visualize, and simulate factory lines and factory equipment. The Ultimate Edition allows you to design factory equipment and layouts in less time utilizing the entire Digital Prototyping workflow.  Detect space constraints and equipment collision early in the design process, reduce errors and save time with automated tube & pipe runs and electrical cable & harness design, and collaborate more effectively with manufacturers and fabricators.

Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2013 takes the easy-to-use factory specific package to the next level by enhancing it with new features to expedite the layout process. Learn how to slash your design time and create a successful facility with the 2013 software from Autodesk.


• Bidirectional Associativity offers for one-to-one synchronization between 2D drawings and 3D drawings, allowing you to start your design in whichever environment you are more familiar with.
• Use Real-world data and digital layout to create your factory by using Point Clouds. This 3D laser scan can be inserted into Autodesk^® Factory Design Suite in order to see factory assets in the current state of the facility.
• Chain Assets together based on a 2D path or polyline by creating a path for your 2D drawing that will be converted to 3D as a chained asset.
• Assign Asset variants to factory assets as the beginning of your design and they will carry on the same characteristics throughout the design process in order to comply with company standards
• Share your factory asset or find new factory assets from the Factory Design Suite or part vendors community with the Factory Asset Warehouse. Have complete control over who sees your parts, by posting to the world-wide warehouse, or your company’s local one.