Create new product variants

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With Informed Design in Revit, you can load a published Inventor product definition and try out multiple variants,

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while still respecting the design parameters set by the product manufacturer.

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In Revit, navigate to the Informed Design tab, and then select Product Insert.

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In the Customize and Insert dialog, under Select product,

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expand the drop-downs and select the account and project where the product definitions were saved.

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Note that you must have the proper permission to access Autodesk Docs project folders containing Informed Design products.

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Once you have selected the project you need, the available folders appear.

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In this example, the Stairs and Balcony product definitions were saved as sub-folders under the 01.ID.PRODUCTS folder.

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Select STAIRS.

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Under Products in selected folder, you can see the product definitions that were saved and published from Inventor.

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For this example, the ID-Staircase is selected.

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On the right, you can see a thumbnail and details of the product definition.

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If multiple releases are available for the selected product,

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you can select your preferred release by its release number.

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In this example, select release 2, and then click Open.

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The dialog changes to show the New and Existing tabs,

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and the product definition opens with the specifications listed on the left

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and the thumbnail and product details on the right.

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You can now customize the staircase assembly.

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Height and width restrictions were added to the product definition when it was created in Inventor.

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Change the Height to a value between 20 and 96.

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You can also change any of the other specifications, as needed.

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Note that the Insert button is not available.

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Since this is your first variant instance, you need to click Generate to initiate the process.

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It can take a few minutes to generate a new variation, depending on product complexity.

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While you wait for a new variation to generate,

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you can continue editing values and configuring additional variations of the same product.

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In the Generate now? popup, click Generate.

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While the variant is generating, click the Existing tab to see the progress.

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Click the Variants or Details tabs to review the information.

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Back on the New tab, you can click Reset and create another variant.

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For this variant, switch HasRiser, RightRail, and LeftRail to False, and then set the Width to 46.

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Click Generate again to initiate this variant.

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Once your variants are generated, from the Existing tab, select a variant, and then click Insert.

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You can now place this staircase variant into your model using the typical features and functions inside Revit.

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Once you have placed a variant as a Revit element, you can select it to view the Properties.

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Select the staircase, then switch views to the Section view and 3D view to see what it looks like.

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Because the product definition was created as a loadable Revit Family,

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you can expand the Families folder in the Project Browser and locate the definition.

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In this example, open Specialty Equipment to see the ID-Staircase definition.