Inventor and Revit interoperability demonstration

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so for the use case we will have

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the objective to manage coordination between two models,

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one from inventor and months from orbit from the rabbit side, we have this model,

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this building with three different views so we have a three d view,

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that is the whole building,

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we have the production review which is the view

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that we are going to insert into our inverter model

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and the production be coordination view that will be the view that

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we're going to send an inventor to place our assembly and to,

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to make the coordination from the emitter side on the right,

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we will have a sub structure that we are

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going to check the coordination with the rabbit part.

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The end goal is to make sure that there is no clash and

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to put the inventors of assembly into rabbit,

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the first demo

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will cover what I just said

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and the first stage

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basically will consist of importing the rabbit model into inventor in order

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to have a first coordination check to see if there is any clash

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in this first video,

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we are going to import the rabbit model

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inside inventor by choosing the corresponding view.

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As explained,

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there are three views available in the rabbit model but one of

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them will be used for coordination the production be coordination view.

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Now, an inventor

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from the assemble tub,

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we can import a cat file and we can select the view that we want to import

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the preview will be generated

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and as you can see

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the number of elements loaded will change depending on the view.

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Once selected a message will pop up.

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If you import a model that contains more than 253 elements,

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it is just to let you know that the number of

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elements imported will of course have an influence on the performance,

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but nothing to be worried about.

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After a few seconds

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the model is loaded and other had initially

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chosen the same origin system for both models,

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I can select place grounded at origin

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to play the rhythm and the model correctly.

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Now we can see that our model has been imported and placed accordingly

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and we can move to the second part of the workflow.

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Now,

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the second video will show the next three

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steps which consists in simplifying the inventor model

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exporting this data model as a

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file and how to make the link inside rabbit with this exported

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the file.

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So after a clash has been identified between the two models,

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preparation is required to correct this clash,

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we want to correct the clash into rivet so

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it is needed to simplify the file from inventor

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than to export it and import it into rabbit

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in order for us to correct the clash

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in rabbit accordingly with the inventive structure.

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We want to make a first coordination check and as you can see,

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we have identified the clash.

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Therefore,

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we will have to modify the rabbit model accordingly to correct this clash,

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but we cannot modify the rabbit model just like that.

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We need to first simplify the inventor model

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to export it and to link in it rivet

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and then we'll be able to correct the clash accordingly

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To do so we are going to use two of the main new features from invented 22.

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The simplified feature and the export to a

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TIF file.

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As you can see the export

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feature is available in the file menu and export a card

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and it will automatically open the simplified comment

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which you should recognize here.

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The new simplified feature has been explained but take a look at how it works in life.

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We can use the presets, the envelopes, expert components remove feature

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and choose the right bit of material structure.

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Do not forget to select,

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enable updating in order to maintain the connection

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link between the inverter model and the exported

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file.

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As explained as well.

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You can win a lot of time if you have already defined views or model states to simplify

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here, I'm going to select my predefined view.

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Rabbit export to make a simplification.

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Now we can click on OK. And then the rabbit model to be exported

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after a few seconds,

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the rabbit model has been created and as you can

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see in the bill of material on the left,

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the new rabbit export folder

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with the corresponding exported violence.

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Let's go back to rabbit now

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so that we can import what we have just created from inventor.

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This time we're going to use the production review

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So we have to go to the insert

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tab link

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and then we have to select the right file

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that we have just exported from inventor.

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Now that the model appear and correctly,

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we can still identify the same class And before we

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can now move forward and correct the clash and rabbit.

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So the third and final demo will show the last step

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of the workflow which is addressed coordination and track changes.

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After we have identified the clash and corrected it,

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we now want to ensure that this correction is being similarly applied to rabbit

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and inventor because we obviously want to avoid double work for the third video,

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we are now going to correct the clash and to

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check that it is applied both in rabbit and inventor.

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So to correct it, we're going to modify this distance between those two elements

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Instead of five m.

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We will put three m

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we can see that directly.

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The clashes corrected in rabbit because we have multiple clash here but now we

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want to make sure that the clash will be also corrected in inventor.

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So after saving the file, we can go back to the inventor

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in order to to check that it is applied as well.

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So once in inventor we just have to first

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of all apply visibility again for the rabbit view

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and the clash is still existing

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and you can see on the left this yellow symbol

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that is indicating that there is an update to be done.

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So we're just clicking on it and waiting a few seconds

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you will see that the clashes now corrected in inventor

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because there is this link maintained between inventor and rabbit.

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So as you can see the clashes corrected and

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we have now successfully coordinated the two mothers.

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Okay, so to summarize,

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I have prepared a slide

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to present two extra, explain once again what you have done.

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So the first step was considered in opening the assembly find inventor.

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This would be the file that will be finally placed into rabbit.

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Then we had used any technology to import the ragged file into inventory.

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The purpose of this step was to check the

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coordination and check that there is no clash.

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In our case, we saw that there was a clash which was the second.

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The third step then we have used both the

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two main updates which are the simplification and export to

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a TIF file to simplify the model and to export it into into

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the file. And then from rabbit we have been able to modify and to correct the clash

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and to make it being applied to inventor as well.

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So this lives summarize the capabilities that have been shown

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and that are very useful for this for this look for