Factory Design Suite
Integrated 3D factory layout software for design and visualization.
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Commercial & Recreational Vehicles
Design and manufacture best-in-class recreational and commercial vehicles with tools designed for automotive workflows
Workflow for commercial and recreational vehicle design, simulation, and manufacturing
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Overview
Create high-quality concepts and visuals early in the design process for recreational and commercial vehicles, and improve decision making with visualization. Reduce time with software that improves efficiency. Reuse product engineering data throughout the production engineering and planning process.
Workflow
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Concept design
Get the design process off to a good start with tools for creating digital concepts from artistic sketches and drawings.
Increase the number of concepts and explore alternatives and variants with 3D concept models while reducing the number of physical clay models.
Review design concepts in real time as a team with efficient visualizations and virtual models.
Go from sketch to surface in one solution to enhance efficiency, reduce clay models, and increase concept variants.
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Design & styling
Turn a concept model into a detailed surface design model with efficient surface design capabilities that reuse and reference sketches and 3D concept models.
Efficiently create visualizations of your design model and reuse information beyond the geometry, including cameras, shading, shadows, and materials.
Meet early marketing demands by generating movie-quality, production-ready CGI and videos.
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Technical surfacing
Develop high-quality, high-fidelity, production-ready surfaces from the design model with professional surfacing tools.
Judge the perceived quality in context of texture, color, and illumination without creating a physical model.
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Sales and marketing, POS
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Product engineering
Reuse technical surfaces and accelerate design with an efficient frame and shaft generator.
Easily set up and manage workgroup data and secure design data with multisite collaboration and access to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Improve engineering reviews with real-time visualizations, including perceived quality, light design, and gap analysis.
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Product simulation
Reduce costly tool changes and iterations by analyzing and understanding plastic part behavior during the early part of the manufacturing process.
Reduce iteration cycles and make changes early in the design process by predicting behaviors with upfront flow, heat transfer, and cooling analysis.
Make changes earlier due to a better understanding of behavior and performance with upfront simulation of mechanical designs in a multiphysics environment.
Use real-time visualization to review simulation results, such as perceived quality of plastic parts, and improve visual review of CFD simulation.
Easily set up and manage workgroup data and secure design data with multisite collaboration and access to ERP systems.
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Production equipment design
Design digital prototypes of product equipment to reduce costs, reuse data, and increase efficiency. Speed the design process with accelerators like frame generator.
Increase drawing generation efficiency with 2D design tools built for mechanical design, and avoid data quality issues with near-perfect fidelity due to DWG™ technology.
Efficiently design and maintain electrical wire diagrams for production equipment machinery with a specialized toolset that includes libraries and electrical logic.
Reduce iterations and costly tool changes with a better understanding of plastic parts behavior during the manufacturing process.
Increase efficiency when you use tools to securely manage design data such as revisions, bill of materials (BOM), and workgroup data.
Easily set up product lifecycle management (PLM) backbone to manage the processes in production equipment design, including requirement management and supplier collaboration.
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Factory planning
Plan efficiently with provided libraries. Transfer 2D layouts to 3D layouts with 3D layout tools, and aggregate multiple data sources to reduce risks.
Use a modern 3D design of your building, and access a centralized information system for the entire process, from planning through operation.
Easily secure design data and manage workgroup data.
Manage the processes in production planning, factory installation, and operation, including management and supplier collaboration with a PLM backbone.
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Documentation
Reuse 3D data and efficiently create interactive instructions with storyboards and snapshots for use in work templates and mobile viewing tools.
Develop 2D drawing-based documentation with efficient and easy-to-use tools based on DWG technology for maximum interoperability.
All products for commercial and recreational vehicle design
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Industry trends and topics
Support for lightweight design and material substitution
Designing transportation equipment with greater fuel efficiency and a reduced CO2 footprint is a priority for today’s automotive manufacturers. Autodesk provides tools that support material substitution and help you simulate and optimize lightweight plastic parts. Stay in compliance with regulations and environmental standards with automotive design software that helps you stay one step ahead.
Tools that help you meet your sustainability goals
Sustainability is an important factor in automobile manufacturing today. To help you meet your sustainability goals, Autodesk provides tools for upfront factory optimization, factory flow analysis, and workplace light simulation. Help reduce energy costs and water consumption, and help provide a better working environment for your team.
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What customers are saying
Products they used
Tesla Motors
This automotive manufacturer met timelines with quality designs using Autodesk automotive design software. The team created models using Autodesk® Alias® software for visualization and prototyping, smoothing the journey to 3D models.
Holden Special Vehicles
Vehicle design software helped this company speed product development. The team explored and reviewed design decisions without creating a physical prototype for each option to save time and stay on budget.
Primera Plastics
This automotive manufacturer used Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow® software to produce more accurate quotes. Creating quality injection mold designs prior to manufacturing improved quality and aesthetics for the product.
Mitsubishi Motors
This automotive manufacturer was able to swiftly determine the difference between 2D and 3D layouts and display large-scale assembly models, allowing the company to stake out a strong competitive position in the marketplace.
