About Informed Design product definitions in Revit

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The Autodesk Informed Design Add-in for Revit allows designers to use products with constraints

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defined by the manufacturers in their design models.

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In the past, product manufacturers encountered difficulties when attempting to share their product model information

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directly from Inventor.

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This often resulted in having to remodel the products in Revit from scratch.

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With Informed Design, however, you can load published Inventor product definitions directly into Revit.

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These product definitions contain predefined Inventor content with applied product rule sets.

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This allows you to configure the product to suit your design requirements

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

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Also, you avoid the usual process of creating design elements from scratch for the Revit model.

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In this example, staircases and balconies need to be added into a room in a building model.

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When the Informed Design Add-in is installed, you can see the Informed Design tab on the Revit ribbon.

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Also note that the plan view is active, but it is also helpful to create a section view as well.

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From the Informed Design tab, you can either insert manufacturer's products as loadable Revit families (.rfa files),

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or configure replacement variations for any already placed instances of Informed Design Revit Families.