Advanced Solutions is an Autodesk Platinum Partner with 2D and 3D design software enterprise integration expertise in architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), infrastructure and advanced manufacturing. Advanced Solutions owns IDS, a professional engineering firm specializing in designing material handling and information systems for both manufacturing and distribution operations.

IDS Engineering offers the industry's FIRST slotting software, Slot3D™, to have an AutoCAD graphical engine embedded into its design. A properly slotted warehouse drives down operating costs and improves overall distribution efficiency. Slot3D™ brings together the powerful algorithms of its economic based slotting techniques with the user friendly graphics interface of AutoCAD, the industry's most widely used 3D graphics program for warehouse design.