Autodesk Design Software for Factories

Autodesk Factory Design Utilities combines a wide range of software tools for the visual planning, creation and optimization of factory layouts. Find out now what Autodesk's design software can offer you.

Efficient Planning and Visualizing of Factories, Manufacturing Plants and Production Processes

Efficient planning and visualization of factories, manufacturing plants and production processes. Create your planning designs in AutoCAD with Autodesk Factory Design Utilities using the 2D object library. Use the simple synchronization with Autodesk Inventor and insert 3D objects automatically. Switch easily between 2D and 3D layouts as your changes in the drawings are automatically updated. Find out more about the other benefits and functions.

Autodesk Factory Design Utilities is exclusively integrated into the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection and is no longer available as a stand-alone product.

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Use Cases for Factory Design Utilities

Use the powerful tools of the Factory Design Utilities and simplify your factory and plant planning. 

Analyze CAD Plans

Create powerful CAD plans in 2D and 3D. Analyze potential collisions and optimize production plans and entire production lines. 

Visualize Results

Simulate specific processes and movements and visualize layouts using powerful images, movies and presentations.

 

Integrate Design Data

Communicate your plans and designs to project partners and service providers. Benefit from the ability to easily integrate third-party data and formats.

Optimize Cooperation

Enable cooperation even with those without CAD software.  

Product Features of Factory Design Utilities

Design Industrial Plants

Use the design tools to create industrial plants according to your specific needs. Share, manage and publish your final factory layouts in 3D.

Plan Complete Buildings

Plan buildings including facilities and visualize the results in full plant layouts.

Professionalize Services

Use professional 3D results for your layouts. Increase success rate in sales planning proposals using intuitive 3D visualization.

Benefits of Autodesk Factory Design Utilities

Use Autodesk Factory Design Utilities to design, visualize and simulate factory buildings, halls, production facilities and individual machines. Find out more about its benefits:

Visualize Manufacturing Processes

Use impressive visualized 3D materials to not only make a strong impression in the project, but also in presentations. 

Speed up Project Planning

You no longer have to waste time on long planning. Design and visualize your ideas easily and quickly.  

Automate Workflows

Streamline planning and manufacturing processes by automating repetitive steps. 

Improve Cooperation

Avoid delays in communication and speed up your project by bypassing CAD barriers to cooperation. 

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ProModel AutoCAD Edition

Factory planning and process optimization - run simultaneously in AutoCad.

Design, simulate and optimize your factory layout directly in AutoCAD. 

Quickly and easily create a spatially accurate layout and process simulation model simultaneously in AutoCAD using Factory Design Assets and the ProModel AutoCAD add-in. Simulate the scaled model directly in AutoCAD with a single mouse click. View the results in the Output Viewer and make layout and process changes in AutoCAD, then test and validate them. Confront the model and then display it in 3D with Inventor and ProModel 3D Animator.

Drastically reduce the time and effort required for an optimal factory design by creating your layout and process model simultaneously in AutoCAD.

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Transform your digital requirements into corporate (added) value. We simplify your processes, map them digitally and make them economically viable - across functions and divisions throughout the entire product development process.  

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