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Engineering CAD (Computer Aided Design) software assists engineers in designing and drafting parts, products, and structures that can be done in two or three dimensions. CAD software usually allows solid and surface modeling, rotations in three dimensions, and dynamic mathematic modeling. Read more Read less
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Powerful cloud-based Structural Analysis program that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures.
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SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following:
- Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS
- Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)
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IronCAD is an intuitive 3D and 2D design solution that increases productivity, and facilitates collaboration throughout the enterprise.
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CAD Programs Designed for Collaboration. The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite is a complete range of CAD products that provides seamless collaboration between 3D and 2D to optimize your engineering teams design process and simplify 3D and 2D CAD data management and communication throughout your organization. Create bidding proposals quickly, design more iterations in less time leading to better products, and simply design faster than any other CAD system available today.
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Accelerate Simulation-Driven Design
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Altair Inspire enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase your product's efficiency, strength and manufacturability. Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Altair Inspire accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies through collaboration. Inspire's award winning user experience for geometry creation and modification can be learned in just a few hours.
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Altair SimSolid is a structural analysis software developed specifically for rapidly evolving design processes.
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By performing structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes, Altair SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise-extensive and error-prone tasks performed in a conventional structural simulation.
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CAD eBOM to ERP mBOM bill of material integration for virtually any CAD or ERP business application.
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CADTALK is the worlds first and only software leveraging artificial intelligence to transform engineering bills of material from virtually any CAD, PDM, or PLM application into manufacturing bills of material and routings inside your ERP software. CADTALKs inherent intelligence allows it to calculate run times, identify vendors, and create items and inventory records in minutes. Optional modules integrate ERP and your BOM with nesting and product configuration (CPQ) applications.
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Engineering design CAD software providing modeling, drafting and visualization for engineers & infrastructure professionals
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MicroStation is the only 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software purpose-built for infrastructure design, helping architects, engineers, and construction professionals like you bring their vision to life, present their designs to their clients, and deliver their projects to the community. Providing you power, flexibility, and best-in-class tools, without requiring add-ons, MicroStation makes it easy to work the way you want, leaving you time to do what you do best.
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2D and 3D CAD software with design automation and engineering toolsets, plus web and mobile apps.
CAD software used for precise 2D and 3D drafting, design, and modeling with solids, surfaces, mesh objects, documentation features, and more. It includes features to automate tasks and increase productivity such as comparing drawings, counting, adding objects, and creating tables. It also comes with seven industry-specific toolsets for electrical design, plant design, architecture layout drawings, mechanical design, 3D mapping, adding scanned images, and converting raster images.
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A programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation.
A programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation.
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Mechanical CAD, design validation, product data management, design communication, and CAD productivity tools in a single package.
SolidWorks Premium seamlessly integrates powerful design tools-including industry-leading part, assembly, and drawing capabilities with built in simulation, rendering, animation, product data management and cost estimation. SolidWorks will help you get work done faster and easier than before, using innovative phases of product creation to achieve a more productive 3D design experience.
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Onshape is the only product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools and real-time analytics.
Onshape is a next-generation SaaS design platform that speeds up product development. Its an all-in-one system that combines CAD, release management, workflow, collaboration, analytics, admin tools, and an API with more than 50 engineering applications. Onshape helps extended design teams work together faster and helps executives make better business decisions with real-time analytics and unprecedented visibility into their companys design and manufacturing processes.
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Inventor 3D CAD software offers professional-grade 3D design, documentation, and product simulation tools. Call us at (844) 849-3393.
Autodesk® Inventor® software provides engineers with powerful mechanical design solutions for their most ambitious ideas. Work with a complete set of tools for 3D modeling, simulation, and documentation.
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Cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool to bring your design teams together and connect your entire product development processes on one platform.
Cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool to bring your design teams together and connect your entire product development processes on one platform.
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Create 2D drawings more efficiently
AutoCAD LT provides simple instruction for mastering AutoCAD LT drawing and dimensioning techniques. Text content presents typical applications of AutoCAD LT with basic and advanced concepts. Produce 2D documentations and drawings with advanced set of editing and annotation tools, while still utilizing AutoCAD's simplified and user friendly instruction.
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Product design software that addresses all manufacturing organizations, from OEMs through their supply chains, to small producers.
Product design software that addresses all manufacturing organizations, from OEMs through their supply chains, to small producers.
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Fully functional 2D/3D CAD Software with life-time valid licenses. Latest IntelliCAD 11.1 Engine, ACIS & Tiegha Technologies.
ActCAD is a professional grade 2D Drafting CAD Software suitable for all engineering domains at just $199 only. Its similar interface and narrow learning curve makes the user feel comfortable while using ActCAD. ActCAD also incorporates the latest CAD Engine 11.1 from ITC ensuring the user a stable and reliable CAD Platform to work upon. ActCAD Self License Transfer allows the user to shift its license from one PC to another without any boundary restrictions. 5000+ Blocks
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Technical computing system that provides tools for image processing, geometry, visualization, machine learning, data mining, and more.
Technical computing system that provides tools for image processing, geometry, visualization, machine learning, data mining, and more.
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ANSYS SpaceClaim is a multipurpose 3D modeling application providing efficient solutions to common modeling tasks.
ANSYS SpaceClaim is a 3D CAD solution designed to help engineers and analysts create parts, auto surface mesh data, and recreate fixtures. The platform enables professionals to remove geometry problems associated with various 3D CAD operations, such as design or concept modeling, repair of translated CAD files, general model defeaturing, and complete model editing. It also lets administrators parameterize CAD files and prepare models for 3D printing using a unified interface.
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Run fluid flow, structural, or thermal high-fidelity engineering simulations in minutes via a web browser. No special hardware required
SimScale enables engineering teams to access accurate and fast simulation, on their terms, without compromise. We make engineering simulation technically and economically accessible from everywhere, at any time, and at any scale, in the cloud. We deliver instant access to fluid, thermal, and structural simulation to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. With SimScale, high-fidelity multiphysics simulation has moved to an agile, cloud-native engineering simulation platform.
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Open-source parametric 3D modeler with modular architecture for designing machine tools and architectural designs in 2D and 3D.
Open-source engineering CAD solution that helps architects create and modify designs of multiple objects for generating production-ready drawings. Designers can use FreeCAD to adjust the dimensions of a product and sketch geometry-constrained 2D shapes and drive formula-based models using an integrated spreadsheet. Using its technical drawing module, team members can generate 2D views of 3D models, perform graphical modification operations, and save files in SVG or PDF formats.
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ArcSite is the leader in mobile drawing and drawing-based takeoff, data collection, and estimate solutions.
ArcSite is the leader in mobile drawing and drawing-based takeoff, and estimate solutions. With ArcSite, you can easily create beautiful, professional-looking drawings on an iPad, Android tablet, or Windows device in just minutes. You can then automatically generate a takeoff, calculate cost and margin, and even produce a winning proposal, all while working in the field, or anywhere you want to work.
ArcSite can help you win more business, save time, and improve collaboration with your team.
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CAD solution that helps businesses create 3D or 2D figures and variants of configurable products using direct and parametric modeling.
Creo is a 3D CAD solution that helps you build better products faster by accelerating product innovation, reusing the best of your design and replacing assumptions with facts. From initial concept to design, simulation, and analysis, Creo provides designers with innovative tools to efficiently create better products. Thousands of leading manufacturers worldwide use Creo's CAD, IoT, and Augmented Reality capabilities, in the cloud and on the desktop, to turn their ideas into reality quickly.
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Comprehensive mechanical CAD including modeling, sheet metal, drawings, rendering, scripting, automation, design libraries, API & more.
Lifetime licenses you own. Over 23 years, Alibre's mature 3D CAD solutions have grown to power engineering for tens of thousands of businesses and individuals. Comprehensive part and assembly modeling, sheet-metal modeling, 2D documentation & BOM creation, configurations and data-driven modeling automation provide the engineering foundation. Extend for your use case with a robust API, create marketing/bid/POC materials with rendering, and work with others with industry-leading interoperability.
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Altium Designer is the most comprehensive, modern, end-to-end solution for professional PCB designers and mechanical engineers.
Altium Designer is the most comprehensive, modern, end-to-end solution designed for PCB designers and the number one choice among engineers and designers worldwide. Representing decades of innovation and development, Altium Designer empowers a truly unified design environment, uniting teams worldwide with every aspect of the PCB design process. With the addition of Altium 365, users can choose between accessing the
program online and on-premises.
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An AutoCAD Clone that works with AutoCAD DWG files. No learning curve for AutoCAD users.
progeCAD Professional - 2D/3D "AutoCAD Like" CAD system that will allow you to "Afford your Design". progeCAD uses AutoCAD DWG files, no need for conversion and the interface uses the same menus and commands, no learning curve for AutoCAD users. Just 1/10th the Price, An easy replacement for AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT. Add-ons for Land Development, Architecture, HVAC/Piping, Structural, etc.
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Engineering CAD tool that provides floodway mapping, 2D modeling, GIS mapping, 3D viewing, reporting, etc.
GeoHECRAS significantly speeds up HEC-RAS model creation and review, producing better and more accurate results. Rapidly construct HEC-RAS models from a variety of data sources. Accelerate engineering workflow and streamline analysis review. Compute water surface profiles for steady and unsteady flow models, bridge and culvert roadway crossings, FEMA floodplain encroachments, stream restorations, inline reservoir structures, off-channel storage areas, and much more.
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Ansys Fluent is the industry-leading computational fluid dynamic software known for advanced physics modeling capabilities and accuracy
Ansys Fluent is the industry-leading computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software known for its advanced physics modeling capabilities and industry leading accuracy. Fluent gives you more time to innovate and optimize product performance. Trust your simulation results with a software that has been extensively validated across a wide range of applications.
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Open-source CAD solution that helps users design multiple 2D models with multilingual interface and cross-platform support.
Open source 2D CAD for Apple, Linux, and Windows. Available in 30 different languages.
Learn more about LibreCAD
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Solid Edge combines the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.
Solid Edge provides users with a full portfolio of solutions to meet a wide range of business needs, including synchronous technology, generative modeling, additive manufacturing, and reverse engineering. Solid Edge not only offers rich design solutions, but scalable solutions for simulation, manufacturing and data management as well.
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CorelCAD allows individuals and organizations of any size to create powerful technical graphics quickly and affordably.
Achieve outstanding results with CorelCAD 2021, an affordable collection of powerful 2D drafting and 3D design tools, purpose-built for architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and manufacturing professionals who demand precision. Turn visualization into realization on Windows and macOS, thanks to native .DWG file support for efficient collaboration and .STL support for productive 3D publishing.
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Autodesk Civil 3D® Civil infrastructure design and documentation software. Call us at (818) 797-9690
Autodesk Civil 3D civil engineering design software supports BIM (Building Information Modeling) with integrated features to improve drafting, design, and construction documentation.
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Easy to use online structural design and analysis software for beams, columns, portal frames, retaining walls and more.
Easily design everything from the roof down to the foundations with intuitive online structural design software.
With a wide range of calculations available in metric and imperial units, you can quickly design and analyse beams, columns, frames, retaining walls, all in one place.
Impress your clients with professional calculation reports that follow an easy to understand traffic like system, and work from anywhere with instant online backup and cloud access.
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Altium 365® is the electronics product design platform that unites PCB design, MCAD, data management, and teamwork.
Altium 365® is the electronics product design platform that unites PCB design, MCAD, data management, and teamwork. Get Altium 365 integration, Altium Designer® updates, and first-class professional services all in one subscription.
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Revolutionary pipe sizing & design software for plumbing, heating, fire, air conditioning, gas, stormwater & heat loss calculations
Plumbing & Heating Pipe Sizing Software
h2x offers a solution to the traditional design method of manual and time-consuming tasks.
Design & calculate plumbing, heating, fire, air conditioning, gas, and stormwater systems; as well as room-by-room heat loss calculations.
Our easy-to-use tool streamlines the design process and provides detailed, accurate, CIBSE-verified results.
Various exports including calculation spreadsheets, bill of materials, heat loss reports, PDF, AutoCAD and Revit.
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Desktop CAD solution for the PC & Mac which assist architects & engineers with 2D drafting, 3D modeling and photo realistic rendering.
TurboCAD is an advanced general-purpose CAD product for design, drafting, detailing, and modeling. The TurboCAD line of products appeals to design professionals and others interested in power mechanical engineering and architectural design capabilities, at attractive and affordable prices.
TurboCAD's powerful tools for 2D or 3D design include 2D parametric constraints, 3D solid and surface modeling, photo-realistic rendering and materials, and extensive CAD and graphics file interoperability.
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Pylon Solar Design Software lets you design a solar quote in under 2 minutes for $0 Monthly Fees.
Using Pylon Solar Design & CRM Software, Solar Installers can create a hi-res solar proposal in under 2 minutes.
Complete with high resolution aerial imagery, 3D shading analysis, load profiles, financial modelling, and beautiful solar proposal designs, Pylon leaves nothing to be desired.
Pylon is especially popular with solar installers because we are a premium solar design product with no monthly fees.
Instead, Pylon charges users a low $4 / project fee.
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The only technical illustration software you will need. With X Pro, visually communicate complex data with clarity and precision
Canvas X Pro does the work of numerous other applications combined by blending professional graphics tools with rich technical illustration capabilities. Enjoy easy to use 2D drawing, 3D CAD visualization, text flow, raster image handling, and vector graphics. Leverage intuitive one-click smart annotations, automatic measurements, and industrial accuracy.
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nTop enables engineers and designers to create breakthrough products and processes that overcome traditional design limitations.
nTop enables engineers and designers to create any geometry — no matter how complex. Our software is used from research through production to create breakthrough processes and products for the aerospace, automotive, medical, and consumer industries. Our customers depend on nTop’s generative design capabilities to take full advantage of new hardware, optimize parts where performance is critical, overcome design bottlenecks, and augment their traditional engineering software stack.
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Intuitive suite of chemical process simulation software that broadens an engineer's capabilities and increases productivity.
CHEMCAD is an integrated suite of intuitive chemical process simulation software.
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* Highly customizable, flexible, and affordable
* All modules work within a single graphical user interface for seamless interaction
* Adapts to how you approach engineering challenges
* Appealing graphics and reports are easy to export to third-party software
* Easily integrates into chemical engineering computing environment
* Personalized technical support second to none
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BricsCAD, the all-in-one CAD design solution in .dwg that answers all your needs; 2D drafting, 3D modeling, mechanical design, and BIM.
Architectural CAD solution designed to help architects, contractors, and engineers create graded and TIN surfaces as well as corridors to create site designs. BricsCAD allows designers to automatically create bends and T-connections on moving around connected profiles. The platform offers inbuilt evaluation tools to calculate pressure loss, room book log, heating requirements, temperature drops, and more. BricsCAD can also design 3D ventilation systems for residential buildings.
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EPLAN Electric P8 supports your electrical controls design for machines and plants in an integrated and fast engineering system.
EPLAN provides software and service solutions in the fields of electrical, automation and mechatronic engineering. We develop one of the worlds leading design software solutions for machine and panel builders.
"Efficient engineering" is our focus: EPLAN is the ideal partner to streamline challenging engineering processes. No matter whether small or large enterprises, we strive to enable our customers to apply their expertise more eciently.
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Software that allows users to view all major 3D CAD formats.
EnSuite-View is a free and easy-to-use software that allows users to view all major CAD formats, as well as neutral formats, without requiring a license. Viewers are currently available for CATIA V4, CATIA V5, CATIA V6 3DEXPERIENCE, Parasolid, IGES, Inventor, Autodesk Design Review, JT, Creo, SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, ACIS, STEP, NX, CGR, and STL. EnSuite-View features many different advanced productivity tools, which allows users to analyze models and assemblies.
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Engineering tool that helps convert physical parts into CAD models, create sketch profile & design custom products using 3D data.
Geomagic Design X creates CAD models from 3D scans faster, more accurately and reliably than any other reverse-engineering software, enabling you to create new business value out of existing products.
Geomagic Design X processes large scan data sets with millions of points faster than any other reverse-engineering software.
Create complex hybrid 3D models for solid, surface, and mesh.
Connect with your CAD environment and create native files to accurately represent a scanned object.
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SpinFire¿ is a revolutionary CAD Viewer with multi-CAD support for 3D/2D viewing, measuring, mark-up and other investigative functions.
Actify's SpinFire is a revolutionary CAD Viewer that enables discrete manufacturers and their partners to cost-effectively view and investigate CAD files without any additional CAD systems.
Actify SpinFire provides multi-CAD support for 3D and 2D viewing, measuring, mark-up and other investigative functions. It is able to convert CAD models into a compact, lightweight and neutral format for sharing with internal and external teams.
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ZWCAD is a fast, powerful and compatible 2D CAD software.
ZWCAD is a fast and powerful and compatible 2D CAD solution for architects, engineers, and designers in the AEC and manufacturing industries. Its unparalleled compatibility and compelling price make it the best alternative to AutoCAD®. But ZWCAD is more than that. Its lighting-fast performance, innovative features and a complete set of tools enables professional to bring their creative visions to life effortlessly.
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Next generation CAD solution with an optimized platform mounted on a high-speed robust engine. Comes at a fraction of the cost.
Next generation CAD solution with an optimized platform mounted on a high-speed robust engine. Mastering CADMATE can be done in minutes with most commands, tools, toolbars, menus, palettes, etc. being the same or similar to users. Utilizing negligible system resources, CADMATE is fast in opening, editing and saving several drawings simultaneously. Fast, strong and robust with the latest CAD tools, features and functionalities. 100% compatible with main stream CAD platforms.
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An AutoCAD add-on productivity tool designed to save you time by batch-editing AutoCAD drawings.
An AutoCAD add-on productivity tool designed to save you time by batch-editing AutoCAD drawings, and a whole lot of other things.
Written by an AutoCAD user, for other AutoCAD users!
Need to track down OLD DWG files, created by older versions of AutoCAD? Hurricane can do this.
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Automate just about any task in AutoCAD? Hurricane can do it.
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3D presentations made easy.
JigSpace lets you create and share stunning augmented reality presentations.
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From prototype to production, quickly create a step-by-step product story in augmented reality, without a single line of code.
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Deploy 3D designs quickly, either onsite or to distributed teams anywhere in the world.
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Ansys Cloud Direct’s powerful, easy-to-access HPC cloud solution will change the way you think about simulation unlike other simulation
Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers.
Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud Direct provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight.
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On-premise CAD solution that lets businesses manage landscape and mechanical designs, add pop-up images, notes or audio files & more.
On-premise CAD solution that lets businesses manage landscape and mechanical designs, add pop-up images, notes or audio files & more.
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Adept Software gives you fast, centralized access to your most important documents in a secure, collaborative environment.
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Engineering CAD Software Buyers Guide
Table of Contents
What is engineering CAD software?
Engineering CAD (computer-aided design) software is used by architectural and engineering drafters to create precise 2D and 3D drawings, models, and technical illustrations of structures, products, and physical components.
The benefits of engineering CAD software
- Consolidated design and analytics tools: The traditional paper-based design process is cumbersome and separates the design and analysis process. CAD systems consolidate design and analytical capabilities, making for a smoother workflow and increased productivity.
- Better visualization/simulation of end products: Engineering CAD solutions with 3D modeling capabilities allow for better analysis of models under different conditions. 3D tools also offer interactive virtual tours of models for more accurate visualization of end products.
Typical features of engineering CAD software
- Manufacturing design data storage: Collect and store all relevant manufacturing-related data for the final product such as production material, size, shape, and weight.
- 2D drawing: Create and edit technical drawings and annotate designs.
- 3D modeling: Represent and visualize objects using a collection of points in three dimensions.
- Design analysis: Simulate the physical behavior of a component, product, or structure in order to minimize, or even eliminate, the need for physical prototyping and testing.
- Design export: Convert the design into another file format that is easily readable by other users.
- Reporting/analytics: Monitor key project metrics and report them to relevant stakeholders.
Considerations when purchasing engineering CAD software
- Determine your requirements before choosing a CAD package: CAD software solutions come with different capabilities such as 2D CAD, 3D CAD, and multi-CAD; multi-CAD can be beneficial if you (or your partners, vendors, or clients) use different CAD systems. Then there’s the software’s deployment, which will be either cloud-based or on-premise. Ensure that the features of the options you’re considering align with your operational requirements and budget.
- Total cost of ownership (TCO): TOC is an estimate of all the direct (procurement) and indirect costs (maintenance, upgrades, supporting/compatible hardware, etc.) associated with an asset over its entire life cycle. Before purchasing CAD software, calculate whether the TCO fits into your budget. For example, 2D software is less expensive than advanced 3D modeling tools, and the annual maintenance fees of 3D software are expensive.
- Integration with other solutions: CAD software must be able to integrate with other systems, such as simulation tools and database software. This will allow for a seamless transfer between systems and ensure smooth workflows.
Relevant engineering CAD software trends
- Augmented reality (AR) enables better visualization of 2D drawings and 3D models: With AR, a target in the real world is used to keep the augmented 3D data in the correct positioning. It allows users to walk around the object and get a 360-degree view. This provides an improved understanding of CAD drawings, geometric features, and projection views.
- 3D printing helps design physical prototypes in less time: 3D printing is often used to create physical prototypes— thin layers of material are solidified using 3D printers. In order to print something, a design is created using 3D CAD software or by using a 3D scanner to scan the object you want to print. This CAD-3D printing partnership will help designers test multiple outputs with different specifications and finalize the most optimal configuration.
