Autodesk Perfects the
Power of Digital Prototyping
Autodesk has a history
of ushering in 2D and 3D
design software
innovation, from
state-of-the-art CAD
design and drafting to
the industry’s most
progressive digital
prototyping. Digital
prototyping enables
designers, engineers,
and artists—and their
clients—to fully
experience their design
ideas before they are
real.
The
Power of the Prototype
Digital prototyping
brings 20/20 foresight
to the creative design
process. Through the
process of detailed
visualization, precise
analysis, and accurate
simulation, Autodesk
customers gain the
ability to view the
future results of their
work.
For example, you can
take your clients
through proposed designs
before they’re actually
built with our
photorealistic 3D
rendering and
cinema-quality animation
tools. What’s more, you
can not only conceive
and create the most
realistic, completely
contextualized designs,
but also make
performance-related
alterations much earlier
in the creative process,
saving time, money, and
aggravation.
Refining and Improving
Designs
With Autodesk
solutions, you can test
and refine potential
projects in a variety of
vital ways. On the one
hand, you can optimize
designs for industrial
machines and products
with maximum elegance
and efficiency. On the
other hand, you might
logistically and
aesthetically assess a
building design at the
same time you evaluate
proposed materials
within climactic changes
and potential energy
consumption. Your
opportunities for
studying and improving
designs are limitless.
Your
Turn
Autodesk customers
are leveraging digital
prototyping to produce
impressive,
inspirational results.
With digital
prototyping, designers
from the manufacturing,
building and
construction, and media
and entertainment
industries can develop,
manage, and communicate
the proposed form and
function of their
innovations. Moreover,
they can do so within a
fully computable and
realistic context. In
our customers’ hands,
Autodesk tools turn
ideas into experiences,
experiences into
reality.
Tools for
Digital
Prototyping
Best-In-Class
Conceptual
Design
Tools
Autodesk® AliasStudio™ software enables users to work digitally on a project from start to finish using best-in-class conceptual design tools. Users can capture ideas digitally from initial sketches to 3D concept models and share those designs with the engineering team using a common file format, allowing a product’s conceptual design data to be incorporated into the digital prototype. Today, the look and feel of a machine or device is more important than ever for consumers, so housing and user interfaces must be shared early in the process between industrial designers and engineering. Learn More
Autodesk® Showcase™ software enables informed decision making on digital prototypes via realistic representations of the product created from 3D design data and an environment in which to present and review designs for important product decisions. Learn More
Market-Leading
2D and
3D
Mechanical
and
Electrical
Autodesk® Inventor™ software provides the foundation for digital prototyping. The Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that lets you validate design and engineering data as you work, minimize the need for physical prototypes, and reduce expensive engineering changes that are often discovered after the design is sent to manufacturing. Learn More
AutoCAD® Mechanical software, part of the AutoCAD® family of products, improves the design experience for mechanical engineers and drafters by simplifying complex mechanical design work. AutoCAD Mechanical can detail and document native Autodesk Inventor models, enabling large engineering departments to use 3D to build digital prototypes while still taking full advantage of the skills and expertise of the 2D drafting team. Learn More
AutoCAD® Electrical software passes electrical design intent and information directly to Autodesk Inventor software to automatically create a 3D harness design, adding valuable electrical controls design data to digital prototype created in Inventor. Users can pass wire-connectivity information to AutoCAD Electrical and automatically create the corresponding 2D schematics. The smooth integration between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor helps users create accurate 2D and 3D electrical designs in less time. Learn More
Scalable
Data
Management
Autodesk data management tools enable design workgroups to manage and track all the design components for a digital prototype. The Autodesk® Productstream® family of product data management (PDM) applications gives users a modular and practical approach to controlling design data and maximizing the value of an investment in design data. Learn More
Digital Prototyping gives manufacturers the ability to virtually
explore a complete product before it is built—so they can
create, validate, optimize, and manage designs from the
conceptual design phase through the manufacturing process. By
using a digital prototype, manufacturers can visualize and
simulate real-world performance of the design with less reliance
on costly physical prototypes.
The Autodesk Digital Prototyping Solution enables
manufacturing workgroups to create a single digital model that
can be used in every stage of production, bridging the gaps that
usually exist between conceptual design, engineering, and
manufacturing teams. It provides the technology to help
manufacturers build fewer physical prototypes, reducing design
and production costs.
Featured in the
July 2007 issue of Business 2.0,
leading-edge manufacturers such as
Kone, Marine Advanced Research, and
Marin Bikes use Autodesk solutions
to create digital prototypes in
their workflow, shaving time and
money from their product
development.
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