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Product Design with Autodesk Inventor

Product Design with Autodesk Inventor. AMS CAD Solutions http://www.amsystems.com. Product Design with Autodesk Inventor. Product Design Challenges. Need to deliver better quality products Create manufacturing drawings in less time Reuse 2D CAD data from legacy parts and products

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Product Design with Autodesk Inventor

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  1. Product Design withAutodesk Inventor AMS CAD Solutions http://www.amsystems.com

  2. Product Design with Autodesk Inventor

  3. Product Design Challenges • Need to deliver better quality products • Create manufacturing drawings in less time • Reuse 2D CAD data from legacy parts and products • Too much trial and error in routed systems design

  4. TypicalCompany # Physical Prototypes • Best in Class Company 1.5 2.9 Source: Aberdeen Need to deliver better quality products • Need to create quality products the first time around? • Products experiencing stress related field failures? • Product flaws discovered after product has gone too market?

  5. Digital Prototypes and Simulation Design Validation Dynamic Simulation Functional Design Stress Analysis Reduce design errors and improve quality

  6. TypicalCompany Time to Market • Best in Class Company 99 Days Source: Aberdeen Create Manufacturing Drawings in Less Time • Drawing release delayed by too many ECOs? • Accurate Bill of Materials is too late for long lead purchasing? • Insufficient time to create clear manufacturing instructions?

  7. Manufacturing Documentation Bill of Materials Part & Assembly Drawings Validated Part & Assembly Design Accurate Manufacturing Documentation Exploded Views & Animated Assembly Videos

  8. TypicalCompany Cost of Reusing 2D Design Data • Best in Class Company Translation or Remodel Open DWG Directly Reuse 2D CAD data from legacy parts & products • Redesigning parts for cost reduction? • Engaged in mid-life product upgrades? • Supporting long term maintenance contracts?

  9. Integrated 2D & 3D Workflow New 3D Model Digital Prototype Validation Existing Designin AutoCAD Lower Cost to Update Products Revised AutoCAD Drawings

  10. TypicalCompany $38,000 Takes too long to develop piping & wiring • Too much time required to fit piping and cabling to finished product? • Difficulty ensuring pipe runs comply with design standards? • Need to reduce delays from errors in wiring harness design? Number of ECOs • Best in Class Company Physical prototype or on site assembly 3D Prototype

  11. Routed System Design Accurate Bill of Materials Parametric Routing Faster Time to Market Accurate Manufacturing Drawings

  12. Conclusion • Prove your design before you build it • Use 3D visualization to evaluate design ideas • Ensure correct fit through 3D assembly modeling • Incorporate engineering analysis using Functional Design • Save Time and Money By Improving Communication • Create accurate manufacturing documentation directly from 3D model • Simplifies communication with suppliers using DWG TrueConnect • Increase sales with realistic renderings of 3D prototypes • Integrate 2D and 3D Design Workflows • Output DWG with full model associativity • Reduce the cost of reusing existing 2D design data • Combine 2D and 3D design data in the same DWG file

  13. Supplemental Product Slides

  14. Sheet Metal • Customer Need • Ability to create sheet metal designs that support manufacturing capabilities. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Custom punch tools with full manufacturing parameters • Alternate punch representations • Advanced Flanges and Miters • Flat pattern modification • Bend and Punch Tables • Layer mapping and spline simplification for DXF output

  15. Advanced Shape • Customer Need • Ability to design competitive products with aesthetic shapes including real-world fillets and blends. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Robust fillet/blend capabilities including tangency and (G2) continuity • Advanced sweep & loft functions • Smart solid creation from surfaces • Face to face fillets

  16. Steel Frames • Customer Need • Quickly generate steel frame designs using standard structural steel shapes • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Library of standard and user defined steel shapes with automatic placement on frame outline • Quick and easy specification of end conditions • Welded joint clean up

  17. Geometry Analysis • Customer Need • Validation of surface quality and manufacturability to avoid costly changes during manufacturing setup. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Comprehensive analysis tools for checking geometric properties including: • Gaussian Curvature • Minimum Radius • Minimum Distance Between Components • Thin Wall Section Analysis • Min/Max Deviation

  18. Product Configurations • Customer Need • Quickly design and document families of related products by creating variations in a single assembly file. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Table driven assemblies • Auto-capture mode • Full BOM & DM support • Full drawing support

  19. Tube and Pipe • Customer Need • Verify form and fit of tubing, piping and flexible hoses without costly, manual layout processes. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Rules-based routing which updates when the assembly model changes • Adjustment of pipe runs with 3D sketch tools • Flexible hose that moves with assembly • Flanged and Branch fittings • Pipe styles for flanged, welded and

  20. Cable & Harness • Customer Need • Reduce the cost of designing and testing wire harnesses. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Automatic nail-board diagrams and accurate determination of wire lengths • Ribbon Cables • Complete BOM including sundry items such as ties and clips • Smart wire-list import from AutoCAD Electrical • Output 2D drawings for assembly documentation

  21. Weldments • Customer Need • Accurate weldment design and documentation including weld preparation, welding, and post-weld operations. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Comprehensive best-in-class environment for weldment design • Preparation & finish processes

  22. Large Assemblies • Customer Need • Increased productivity when working with very large designs • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Component suppression with Level of Detail Representations • Improved Find and Filter tools • Support for Windows Professional x64 Edition

  23. Full Featured Drafting Tools • Customer Need • Create accurate production-standard drawings from 3D designs. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Retrieve accurate dimensions from 3D model and sketch geometry • Styles and standards editor • Custom Tables • Exact control of dimension properties

  24. Feature Generator • Customer Need • Accelerate the design of frequently used 3D shapes. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Large selection of geometric primitives and standard shapes • Drag and drop placement • Interactive feature adjustment using 3D Grips

  25. AutoCAD Mechanical Associativity • Customer Need • Leverage AutoCAD Mechanical for detailed drawing production. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Native AutoCAD Mechanical DWG file generation from Autodesk Inventor models • Fully associative files provide automatic drawing update when the 3D model changes * * Only Autodesk delivers cross platform 3D to 2D associativity

  26. Efficient Technical Illustration • Customer Need • Reduce the time required to create illustrations for spare parts manuals, assembly instructions and training materials. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Presentation Environment with: • Exploded views • Animations

  27. Content Center • Customer Need • Incorporate approved components and standard parts with simplified workflows. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Unified content library • Efficient content browser with Autodrop technology • Over 650,000 standard components • Edit and batch publishing tools • User-defined libraries of parts and features

  28. Supplier Content Center • Customer Need • Save time and stop modeling components you don’t manufacture • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Over 100 leading component manufacturers • Native Inventor parts and assemblies • Online integration with Inventor’s Content Center Autodesk Confidential. Product release dates and features are subject to change.

  29. Automatic View Projection • Customer Need • Dramatically reduce the time required to create detail views • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Automatic front, side, ISO, detail, section and auxiliary views • Robust palette of dimension, annotation and 2D symbols • Automatic retrieve of dimensions from the 3D model • GB, JIS, BSI, ISO, DIN, ANSI and GOST standards

  30. Integrated BOM Management • Customer Need • Provide early visibility into accurate parts lists to improve costing and sourcing decisions. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Guaranteed synchronization of BOM and assembly structure • Direct editing of material properties • Automatic parts lists • Purchased and non-purchased components • Virtual components such as glue and paint • Complete synchronization with Autodesk ProductStream

  31. Automatic Drawing Update • Customer Need • Minimize time lost updating drawings and parts lists to incorporate engineering changes. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Fully associative data model propagates changes across: • Parts and Assemblies • Bill of Materials • Drawings and Parts Lists • Routed systems • Presentations • Certified partner applications

  32. Design Accelerators • Customer Need • To improve design quality by merging engineering design calculations with 3D model development. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Component Generators • Mechanical Calculators • Engineer’s Handbook

  33. Component Generators • Customer Need • Design, analyze and generatemachine components based on functional requirements, specifications and industry standards. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Bolt and screw Connections • Clevis pins • Shafts, hubs and bearings • Keyways, splines and cams • Belt and chain drives • Gears and power screws • Springs • O-Rings

  34. 3D Visualization • Customer Need • Cost effective validation of whole design before committing manufacturing dollars. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Constant feedback on component relationships • Visualize design choices throughout the process. • Assign materials, textures & lighting

  35. Design Validation • Customer Need • To eliminate costly errors early and improve overall product function. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Contact Detection Solver • Validate action-reaction • Automatic motion testing • Automatic part interference detection • Physical properties (Mass, Center of Gravity)

  36. Dynamic Simulation • Customer Need • Better performance prediction early in the design cycle • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Automatic generation of motion joints from assembly constraints • Full definition of driving loads and moments with time-based force functions • 3D visualization of dynamic motion • Full graphing and export to Excel • Transfer reaction forces into FEA solver to predict stress at peak load

  37. Stress Analysis • Customer Need • Accurate prediction of part performance under load to optimize designs for lower weight, reduced cost and fewer field failures. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • In context finite element stress analysis powered by Ansys • Maximum and minimum principal stresses • Automatic mesh refinement • Displacement

  38. Reliable Data Exchange • Customer Need • Accept customer’s files in different formats and import the geometry even when it contains geometric defects. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Construction Environment with comprehensive repair tools • Support for Industry Standards • Import DWG, DXF, ProE, SAT, IGES & STEP • Export Part/Assembly: SAT, IGES, STEP, STL & Streamline • DrawingsDWG*, DWF & DXF

  39. Construction Environment • Customer Need • Fast and dependable import of customer’s design data. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Supports solid, surface and wireframe geometry • Check quality of imported datasets • Edit and clean up surfaces • Trim and extend • Quilting • Flip face normals

  40. Autodesk Inventor Studio • Customer Need • Create compelling images to communicate design concepts. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • State-of-art rendering tools including: • Surface, lighting and scene styles • Full camera control • Easy to use animation • Full integration with the Inventor design environment

  41. Collaboration and Viewing • Customer Need • Share designs with manufacturing partners while protecting intellectual property. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • 3D DWF publishing built-in • Auto-publishing with Autodesk Vault • Lightweight published data • Free DWF Viewer download • Viewing and printing

  42. Autodesk Vault • Customer Need • Increase reuse of existing design data. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Fast and powerful search by part number and attributes • Component preview for visual validation of selected component • Copy Design saves time and eliminates errors when creating copies.

  43. AutoCAD Electrical • Customer Need • Ensure that the 3D wiring design matches the electrical schematic from the start. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • XML based data exchange between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Professional

  44. From Inventor… …to ABS AEC Exchange • Customer Need • Drive business by sharing Inventor models with building system engineers and building contractors. • Inventor 2008 Delivers • Publish native ABS models that include 3D geometry and intelligent connection data • Export Inventor assembly models as 3D DWG files for use with ADT, Revit and AutoCAD

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