Today, designers and engineers face growing pressure to develop more innovative products faster and at lower cost to help their companies succeed in a competitive global market. Responding to this challenge requires working smarter—finding ways to save time and lower costs without negatively affecting product quality or innovation. To achieve these goals, you need access to integrated development tools that go beyond 3D CAD (computer-aided design), allowing you to model your designs in 3D and automate many of the tasks required to move products from design through manufacturing without the duplicative work and manual tasks that can contribute to schedule delays and budget overruns. With the SOLIDWORKS Premium 3D product development platform, you will have access to the integrated tools that you need to model, visualise, simulate, validate, communicate, cost, document, and better prepare your designs for production. In addition to helping you work smarter, SOLIDWORKS Premium 3D product development software will help you support a range of downstream functions, streamlining your organisation’s design and manufacturing processes and contributing to your company’s success.
Developing better products demands more than CAD
Developing better products demands much more than just modelling shapes and geometries in 3D. It requires you to learn as much about your design as possible—how it will move, behave, look, and feel. It entails the ability to effectively communicate your design concepts and collaborate with others who can offer valuable input. It necessitates understanding the manufacturability and sustainability of a design. It involves finding ways to automate duplicative, time-consuming effort, and manage design data to minimise the likelihood of errors creeping into the process. It calls for supporting downstream functions, such as automating the generation of G Code for machining, or creating images and animations to support marketing. In short, developing innovative products efficiently requires much more than the ability to model something in 3D; it calls for a range of additional design and engineering capabilities.
Fortunately, you can quickly and easily tap the tools that you need to deliver better products by using an integrated 3D design platform like SOLIDWORKS Premium software, which includes a host of time- and money-saving integrated 3D CAD tools. You can learn how your design will behave and move using integrated structural and motion analysis, and then hold it in your hand via 3D printing support. You can work with mesh and cloud point data, and create complex surfaces and shapes. You can automate the routing of pipes, tubes, and ductwork, and the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) programming that drives CNC (computer numeric control) machining. You can easily communicate design concepts and collaborate with colleagues and partners using SOLIDWORKS eDrawings. You can estimate production costs, assess design manufacturability, evaluate product sustainability, and then create tooling. You can even create photorealistic images and animations. Most importantly, you can do all this without leaving your 3D CAD system.