Autodesk partnership with GlobalSpec extends component search to design teams

A partnership between Autodesk and GlobalSpec permits extended design team members—including purchasing agents—to launch component part searches from Autodesk Design Review, a tool within the Autodesk Inventor 3D design application.

The end user can subsequently take a snapshot of any detailed data that the search presents and save it as a DWF file within Inventor, where it can be stored and shared among all members of the extended team.

“The integration of product development and purchasing to be handled out of one program is a great time saver,” says Gisela Wilson, a director with Framingham, Mass-based analyst firm IDC. “It's a huge time drain to go through multiple catalogues, and back and forth between programs. This adds a lot of value to the Autodesk Design Review offering, and opens the door to supporting sourcing and purchasing from design.”