Jim Byrne
Advanced design and simulation with the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
Overview
Advanced 2D and 3D workflows
Integrated product development
Advanced simulation tools
What your peers say
Resources
Overview
In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, advanced design and simulation capabilities are critical for driving innovation and efficiency. That’s why the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection comes complete with cutting-edge tools and technologies to help you create detailed designs and run sophisticated simulations.
Below you’ll find links to step-by-step information on our most popular tools to help you:
- Create more advanced 2D and 3D designs with detail and precision
- Simulate a variety of materials and conditions to predict performance and optimize design
- Connect tools together into powerful workflows that unlock the full potential of the collection
- Improve collaboration and accuracy to deliver higher-quality products, faster development cycles, and increased cost savings
Of course, you can always go further and explore more detailed posts about design fundamentals, advanced manufacturing, factory layout, and visualization.
Take your knowledge of AutoCAD and Inventor even further
Both individually and working together, AutoCAD and Inventor provide powerful 2D and 3D workflows that can help you bring your most ambitious ideas to life with accuracy, quality, and performance. Start with:
- AutoCAD: industry-leading 2D drafting and documentation capabilities for detailed plans, schematics, and layouts that complement 3D designs
- Inventor: a powerful 3D CAD software for mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation that helps you create detailed part and assembly models, perform simulations, and generate technical drawings
AutoCAD + Inventor: import your AutoCAD files into Inventor as associative reference models to ensure that any updates made to the 2D files are automatically reflected in the 3D models, for more cohesive and synchronized workflows
Transform product development with integrated design, manufacturing, electronics, and more
Fusion gives you a robust, collaborative environment for your product development, advanced simulation, and manufacturing processes. Start with:
- Design and manufacturing: see how Fusion combines 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE capabilities in one convenient platform
- Electronics design: from schematic capture and PCB layouts to MCAD-ECAD unification and SPICE simulation, Fusion helps you navigate the electronic design landscape with confidence and proficiency
Explore Inventor Nastran, Inventor Tolerance Analysis, and Fusion Static Stress Analysis for simulation
Knowing how your designs will perform in the real world—before they’re manufactured—is a powerful advantage that many of your competitors already have. And with the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, you have it too. Start with:
- Inventor Nastran: advanced simulation software embedded right in Inventor, to help you analyze stress, thermal, and dynamic variables and ensure the integrity and performance of your designs
- Inventor Tolerance Analysis: a powerful tool for performing tolerance stack-up analysis to ensure your designs meet manufacturability standards and maintain high quality.
- Fusion Static Stress Analysis: easy-to-use tools to virtually subject components or assemblies to a range of load conditions—and analyze the resultant stress, strain, and deformation results.
“With Autodesk’s virtual manufacturing tools, the company has achieved a significant reduction of around 70% of the costs caused by process incidents, and start-up times have been drastically shortened.”
– Javier Molina, Engineering Director, Frumecar
Resources
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Community forums
Design and manufacturing blog
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