Tools for Digital Prototyping Evolve the Way You Think About Your Design Process
Develop a single digital model with Autodesk® Inventor® software and use it at every stage of production, from conceptual design through manufacturing. Design, visualize, and simulate your product digitally, reducing the need to create physical prototypes and promoting collaboration and innovation. The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping helps you save time and money, build better products, and beat the competition to market. Autodesk has made Digital Prototyping scalable, attainable, and cost-effective for design and manufacturing workgroups, putting it within reach of all manufacturing companies. From conceptual design and engineering to data management and visualization software, Autodesk provides industry-leading tools to support your entire Inventor-based Digital Prototyping workflow. Best-In-Class Conceptual Design
Optimize your design process and work digitally from project outset, using best-in-class conceptual design tools from Autodesk. Capture ideas digitally—from initial sketches to 3D concept models with the Autodesk® Alias® family of products. Then, share those designs with the engineering team using a common file format, enabling a product’s industrial design data to be incorporated into the digital prototype created in Inventor.
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Facilitate informed and streamlined decision making with realistic, accurate, and compelling imagery from 3D CAD data. Autodesk® Showcase® software makes it easy to present a range of design options—reducing time, cost, and the need to build physical prototypes. Integrated 2D and 3D Mechanical and Electrical Design
Move beyond 3D to develop complete digital product prototypes with Autodesk Inventor software. The Inventor family of software provides the powerful, cost-effective, and easy-to-learn desktop technology that engineers need to take advantage of Digital Prototyping. An Inventor-based Digital Prototyping solution enables manufacturing and design companies to compete more effectively, service clients better, and do more in-house. With Inventor, you can integrate AutoCAD® software drawings and 3D data into a single digital model, creating a virtual representation of the final product. Using this model, engineers can design, visualize, and simulate their products. The model serves as a digital prototype that engineers refine and use to validate design functions, helping to reduce reliance on physical prototypes and minimize manufacturing costs. |
AutoCAD® Electrical software passes electrical design intent information for cables and conductors directly to Inventor, adding valuable electrical controls design data to the digital prototype. Inventor users can also pass wire connectivity information to AutoCAD Electrical and automatically create the corresponding 2D schematics. The smooth integration between these two products helps your electrical and mechanical teams work collaboratively and efficiently on 2D and 3D mechatronic product designs. AutoCAD® Mechanical software enhances productivity by helping mechanical designers and drafters simplify complex mechanical design work. Quickly detail production drawings using industry-specific tools that help reduce errors and save time. AutoCAD, the one of the world’s leading design and professional drafting software, plays an important role in Digital Prototyping workflows. With AutoCAD, you benefit from the power and flexibility to explore, document, and communicate ideas. Both AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD software allow you to accurately document digital prototypes created in Inventor, and communicate insights gained from Digital Prototyping with colleagues, partners, and suppliers that rely on AutoCAD software. Simulation
Inventor software delivers the best integrated simulation tools in the industry. Tightly integrated toolsfor calculations, stress, deflection, and motion simulation help engineers optimize and validate a digital prototype before the product is built. Simulation is performed based on real-world constraints, so you can feel confident about the results. The dynamic simulation tools in Inventor enable engineers to evaluate the different potential solutions to a motion problem, making it possible to make the best design decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
To help validate and optimize designs before manufacturing, you can use the broad range of finite element analysis (FEA) and simulation tools in Algor® simulation software, which will enhance the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping.
Autodesk® Moldflow® Adviser injection molding simulation software optimizes plastic part and injection mold designs and manufacturability, helping to shorten development times, reduce costs, and avoid manufacturing defects. Profitable Manufacturing
Autodesk Digital Factory tools extend Digital Prototyping into the factory, making it possible to analyze the manufacturability of designed products, deliver critical product documentation, and simulate factory operations. With Autodesk® Navisworks® software for manufacturing, you can visualize complete manufacturing facilities, industrial machinery, factory floor models, and product lines in a single environment. The software supports complete assembly visualization and optimization, and enables users to combine CAD data from multiple design systems regardless of file format or size. Navisworks software enables team members to share, combine, and review detailed 3D design models of any size or format—and experience the factory before it becomes real. Marketing Communications
To produce accurate and highly realistic visualizations of digital prototypes created in Inventor, designers can turn to industry-leading visualization tools including Autodesk Showcase and Autodesk® 3ds Max® software. Import Inventor data into 3ds Max for advanced rendering and animated visualizations of digital prototypes. These stunningly realistic product visualizations can be used for sales and marketing long before building begins. |
Keep Track of Your Designs Autodesk Data Management tools allow design workgroups to manage and track all design components for a digital prototype so you can better reuse design data, manage the release and change process, and promote early collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients. The Autodesk® Vault family of data management applications helps design, engineering, and manufacturing workgroups manage the Digital Prototyping process with tools for enhanced file organization and more efficient design release and revision. You can further facilitate Digital Prototyping workflows with Autodesk® Design Review software, the all-digital way to review, measure, mark up, and track changes to designs—all without the original creation software. | 
