Which Design Challenges Do You Have?
If you are designing a production facility, you have different challenges than if you are styling a new car or designing an espresso machine.
For automotive or consumer products, your design tools might be tuned for surfacing, styling and lighting. Your designs may consist of complex surfaces & shapes. A key result for your design team might be the aesthetic impression of the final product.
If, however, you design industrial machinery and production equipment, then your needs are different. And your design tools should be different, too.
Meeting Challenges in Machinery Design
iCAD is a specialized 3D CAD environment. It is a tool created for engineers who need to rapidly create the conceptual design for a new production station or create a layout for the production line. It is a tool created to advance through every step of the project together with the designer.
iCAD is a tool created to integrate simulation and verification tools that deliver results in real-time even on models with 100s of thousands of parts. It is a tool created to support manufacturing processes by merging design intent with live input from the production line. It is a tool created to provide a single, consistent, comprehensive design and engineering environment cradle to grave.
A Swiss-Army-Knife CAD Tool Isn’t An Optimized Tool
As an engineer yourself, you understand that if a CAD tool for mechanical design purports to be optimal for more than a dozen different industries, then it can’t be truly optimized for any one of those industries. It is simply not possible to optimize a design tool for everything from aerospace to construction to engineering services to industrial machinery to medical to oil & gas to automotive to consumer products.
Consider the differences in project sizes and design characteristics between aerospace and medical, or between consumer products and industrial machinery. The CAD database and the overall performance might be “OK”. The specialized industry segments could be served through one or more add-on modules. The solution should work. But, by definition, it won’t be optimized.
A Design Tool With Purpose
When your design tools focus directly and exclusively on the problems you face, then these tools can be tailored to the typical challenges you face. iCAD SX has been developed for over three decades with a focus on production machinery design.
The benefits are many.
iCAD has a highly optimized CAD engine that is tuned for very small data size and very high performance. This leads to extremely fast project loading and saving.
iCAD users navigate, manipulate, and edit designs rapidly. iCAD customers can work easily with designs containing 100s of thousands of parts/
iCAD delivers features tuned for fast, iterative conceptual design cycles. iCAD integrates 2D and 3D data into the same workspace allowing 2D layouts to be used for 3D conceptual design.
Engineers can create just the right level of detail for each design phase. As projects grow in size and complexity, designers remain in the same productive environment without needing to transition from one engineering tool to another.
Because of the focus on your problems, iCAD implements productivity features including motion control within the 3D model, ultra-fast interference on an entire production system, simulation functions, and an efficient cable routing system.
Each feature is fully integrated in iCAD. Engineers don’t need to struggle with transferring data or using external add-on modules.
And because production machinery projects have long life-cycles, iCAD provides 100% backwards compatibility. You will never need to worry about data migration from older projects.
Integrated Design Environment for Production Machinery Design
What if you could begin your design project with a blank sheet of paper, proceed through detailed design, system integration, maintenance, and end-of-life, and always use the same design tool? iCAD SX provides a fully integrated design environment that takes you from the very first conceptual design to end-of-life. Read more…
Efficient Conceptual Design Features
Your design tool should not slow you down. iCAD SX lets designers begin designs quickly. It is possible to layout initial designs using detail level appropriate for the first ideas. The following iterations can expand on the design and add details. At all times, iCAD SX lets designers develop and refine their projects according to their needs and not artificial requirements imposed by the software. Read more…
Large-scale Detailed Designs
Machinery production design projects become very large designs. You may be working with 10s of thousands of parts. Or you may be working with 100s of thousands of parts. Your design software has to be capable of delivery fast, responsive manipulation and calculations on huge designs. iCAD SX is designed to deliver. Read more…
The Ultra-fast CAD Engine
Machinery production design projects become very large designs. You may be working with 10s of thousands of parts. Or you may be working with 100s of thousands of parts. Your design software has to be capable of delivery fast, responsive manipulation and calculations on huge designs. iCAD SX is designed to deliver. Read more…
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