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1 Compliments of & Digital Prototyping Limited Edition Get to market ahead of the competition FREE etips at dummies.com

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3 Digital Prototyping FOR DUMmIES By Man and Machine A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication

4 Digital Prototyping For Dummies Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd The Atrium Southern Gate Chichester West Sussex PO19 8SQ England For details on how to create a custom For Dummies book for your business or organisation, contact CorporateDevelopment@wiley.com. For information about licensing the For Dummies brand for products or services, contact BrandedRights&Licenses@Wiley.com. Visit our Home Page on Copyright 2011 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, England All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, England, or ed to permreq@wiley.com, or faxed to (44) Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: THE PUBLISHER, THE AUTHOR, AND ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN PREPARING THIS WORK MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WAR- RANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS WORK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES OR PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES CON- TAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERY SITUATION. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IF PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED, THE SERVICES OF A COMPETENT PROFESSIONAL PERSON SHOULD BE SOUGHT. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR THE AUTHOR SHALL BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING HERE- FROM. THE FACT THAT AN ORGANIZATION OR WEBSITE IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AND/OR A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE AUTHOR OR THE PUBLISHER ENDORSES THE INFORMATION THE ORGANIZATION OR WEBSITE MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMENDATIONS IT MAY MAKE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT INTERNET WEBSITES LISTED IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN AND WHEN IT IS READ. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. ISBN: Printed and bound in Great Britain by Page Bros, Norwich

5 Introduction Welcome to Digital Prototyping For Dummies, your guide to the exciting new world of digitally designing, visualising and simulating products, and the impact that it s likely to have on the manufacturing market and beyond. About This Book In today s global marketplace, manufacturers of all sizes are under constant pressure to get products to market faster and improve profit margins to stay ahead of the competition. This minibook gathers together the best insider knowledge of how Digital Prototyping can help you develop a greater understanding of Autodesk s latest manufacturing product, industry and competitive advantage tools. Foolish Assumptions To fit as much useful information in this little book as we could, we had to make a few assumptions about you, the reader: You work in the manufacturing sector and understand the basics of how to virtually explore a complete product before it is built.

6 2 You want to know more about Digital Prototyping and how it can reduce the amount of physical prototypes that are produced, improve profit margins, and keep you ahead of the competition. You want help in deciding which Digital Prototyping solutions result in best practice of designing, visualising and simulating complete products digitally. So if this is you, read on! How This Book Is Organised Digital Prototyping For Dummies is divided into these small but perfectly formed parts: Part I: Simplifying for Success. We introduce you to Digital Prototyping and explain its many benefits. Part II: Going Beyond 3D. We give you insight into the different options Autodesk can offer and help you decide the best fit for your needs. Part III: Bringing Designs to Life in Your Industry. From aerospace to consumer products, we explore the advantages of Digital Prototyping to your industry. Part IV: Changing Your World: Digital Prototyping for Education. Discover the most suitable Autodesk products for educators. Part V: Ten Reasons to Choose Digital Prototyping. Follow the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model.

7 Icons Used in This Book To help you hone in on particularly noteworthy information we use the following For Dummies icons: The target highlights useful tips to follow on your Digital Prototyping journey. 3 The knotted string shows important information to bear in mind. The Dummies man indicates real-life examples in the world of Digital Prototyping. Where to Go from Here As with all For Dummies books, you can dip in and out to find the information that interests you, or read it from cover to cover it won t take you long! Use the headings to guide you to the information you need.

8 Part I Simplifying for Success In This Part Explaining Digital Prototyping Finding the key benefits to manufacturers Subscribing to essential software updates The manufacturing product development process today is divided up into islands of different expertise from the conceptual design phases, right through to the manufacturing process, each presenting its own technical challenges. Autodesk s Digital Prototyping solution helps to bridge any disconnection between these areas, reducing reliance on more expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes. In this chapter, we explain what Digital Prototyping is and how it can benefit you. Digi-what? Defining Digital Prototyping Digital Prototyping means virtually exploring a complete product before it becomes real. You can design, visualise and simulate products. By using a digital

9 prototype created in Inventor, the foundation of Autodesk s solution for Digital Prototyping, you can visualise and simulate the real-world performance of a design digitally, helping reduce your reliance on costly physical prototypes. Digital Prototyping provides the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model in a multidisciplinary engineering environment with minimal disruption to existing workflows. You can also bring your customers into the manufacturing process early so that they can see exactly what a product will look like and validate how it will function before it is delivered. Delving Deeper into Digital Prototyping Autodesk s conceptual design tools enables industrial designers to create sketches and 3D concept models digitally in an environment that s comfortable to them and that can be incorporated into the digital prototype. For mechanical and electrical engineers, Digital Prototyping gives the smoothest bi-directional interoperability between 2D and 3D mechanical and electrical design applications on the market. Autodesk mechanical and electrical applications speak to each other, exchange data seamlessly, and allow mechanical and electrical teams to work collaboratively on the digital prototype, reducing the number of expensive iterations. 5

10 6 With Digital Prototyping, engineering doesn t have to rely heavily on the production of physical prototypes to identify and resolve design errors. Instead, Autodesk Data Management allows design workgroups to manage and track all the design components for a digital prototype, helping them to better reuse design data, manage bills of material and promote early collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients, which helps them find errors earlier in the process and ensures accuracy of product data throughout the entire product development process. Autodesk Design Review enables you to connect with customers, suppliers, planners and purchasing early in the product development process, providing an all-digital way to review, mark-up and track 2D and 3D design changes even if the stakeholder isn t familiar with computer-aided design (CAD) software. Knowing the Benefits of Digital Prototyping Compared to creating many physical prototypes, Digital Prototyping has a number of benefits. You re able to deploy and manage a solution using a single digital model created in Inventor, which can be used in all stages of production. You can also: Get to market faster. Reduce the number of errors.

11 Increase innovation. Be more productive. Be more competitive. Reduce the number of physical prototypes. Digital Prototyping is easy to use because you can use your existing knowledge and experience and save time and effort by re-using your existing 2D data. For design engineers, Digital Prototyping is great because you: Spend less time thinking about features and functions and more time solving engineering problems. Reduce the number of errors by letting the software automate regular tasks. Validate that components are fit for purpose. Get it right first time, saving time on the shop floor. Bring together electrical and mechanical design data. Save time and reduce errors from having associative documentation for manufacturing, purchasing, sales and so on. 7

12 8 For simulation and analysis, Digital Prototyping enables you to: Check the designs are fit for purpose using the same Digital Prototyping data in the same environment. Optimise the design without the need for time-consuming multiple analysis. Increase innovation by allowing engineers to spend more time on What If studies. Reduce the amount of re-work by sharing your 3D Digital Prototype directly with Autodesk Algor for further analysis (we describe Autodesk Algor in Chapter 2). Provide automatic calculation reports to colleagues and customers. Save time by not having to find calculation and standard information in your machinery s handbook. What s more, the benefits of Digital Prototyping for visualisation are that you can: Save time and money by providing sales- and marketing-ready visualisations directly from the digital prototype. Share 2D and 3D digital prototype data with customers, suppliers and colleagues.

13 9 DIGITAL PROTOTYPING ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SIMULATION VISUALISATION MANUFACTURING Figure 1-1: The Digital Prototyping cycle. Knowing the value of subscription Get the benefits of increased productivity, predictable budgeting and simplified licence management with Autodesk Subscription. You get the new upgrades and any incremental product enhancements of your Autodesk software, plus you receive exclusive licence terms available only to subscription members. Whether you opt for a one-year subscription or a multiyear contract, the costs are known for the entire term of your contract. (continued)

14 10 (continued) Benefits include: Product enhancements for subscription customers frequently include time-saving features that help increase productivity. You ll always have the latest release of software, so always have the most advanced technology. You can use both previous and current versions, at home or in multiple territories. Web support is available which helps address common installation or configuration issues at no incremental cost, meaning you can get back to work quickly, and maximise billable hours. Web Support Requests are tracked so your entire team can access and benefit from answers to questions asked by individual users. Find out more at subscription.

15 Part II Going Beyond 3D In This Part Exploring your Digital Prototyping options Documenting instructions with ease Do more with less. That mandate hasn t changed for manufacturers. A recent study conducted by the Aberdeen Group confirms that Digital Prototyping is key to being a best-in-class manufacturer. The research showed that a common feature or best practice among the top-performing manufacturers was the practice of designing, visualising and simulating complete products digitally. As a result, these manufacturers enjoy competitive advantages in key areas by: Building half the number of physical prototypes. Getting to market 58 days faster. Achieving 48% lower prototyping costs. Driving greater innovation into their products. In this part, explore how to become a best-in-class manufacturer using Digital Prototyping.

16 12 Introducing the Digital Prototyping Product Portfolio Moving into 3D is only the first step in creating a physical prototype. In today s increasingly competitive global market, being best-in-class means using technology to stay ahead of the competition. Incorporating Digital Prototyping into your product development process gives you that edge. Autodesk provides the interoperable tools required to create a complete digital prototype from the conceptual phase of a project through to manufacturing. Here s an overview of what the Autodesk manufacturing products can do for your business. Conceptual design phase: Autodesk Alias products The Autodesk Alias product line enables you to work digitally from the start of a project with best-in-class industrial design tools. You can capture ideas digitally from initial sketches through to 3D concept models using a common file format, enabling you to incorporate a product s industrial design into a digital prototype. Use Alias Design to experiment with ideas, rapidly iterate concepts and refine winning details. Autodesk Alias Design is for consumer product designers who control the entire decision process. Designers can rapidly develop and communicate product design concepts using sketches, illustrations, photorealistic renderings and animations.

17 13 Autodesk Alias Surface offers a full set of dynamic 3D modelling capabilities that enable virtual modellers to evolve concept models and scan data into high-quality production surfaces for consumer product design and Class-A surfaces for automotive design and styling. Autodesk Alias Automotive is an industry leading application for automotive design and styling. The software provides a comprehensive set of visualisation and analysis tools for the entire shape-definition process, from concept sketches through to Class A surfacing. Engineering phase With Autodesk Digital Prototyping solutions, engineers can experience the design before it s even built. AutoCAD Inventor software is the foundation for Digital Prototyping. This software combines an intuitive 3D mechanical design environment for creating parts and assemblies with functional design tools that enable engineers to focus on a design s function, not geometry creation. The software drives the automatic creation of intelligent components such as plastic parts, steel frames, tube and pipe runs, and electrical cable and wire harness. Reducing the geometry burden helps engineers spend more time rapidly building and refining digital prototypes that validate design functions and help optimise manufacturing costs. Inventor also provides direct read and write of native DWG (drawing) files, which gives engineers the freedom to safely reuse valuable 2D DWG files.

18 14 We re blushing: Responses to Inventor The true benefit of Autodesk Inventor for a small business such as ours is the affordable cost combined with the ease of operation. The software enables us to quickly manufacture and simulate the prototype components digitally and rapidly alter the design in a matter of minutes. David Farrell, Director of Engineering, Thompson Couplings Limited We evaluated several 3D applications and quickly agreed on Autodesk Inventor, mainly because it is so easy to use. Prototypes as we used to know them practically do not exist for us anymore, [they] are digital today, and we have an indicator for that: it used to take at least ten prototyping cycles until we reached that stage of maturity. Now we can start serial production after a mere three. Rolf Pflaumann, Head of Engineering Support, Gottwald Port Technology AutoCAD 2011 enables you to drive projects from concept to completion with powerful documentation tools. You can work faster with automation, management and editing tools that minimise repetitive tasks and speed up your time to completion. You can also share critical design data securely and efficiently. See autocad.co.uk. Start to finish, I depend on AutoCAD for design. Eddie Paul Industries, Hollywood Stunt/Prop Design AutoCAD Mechanical is built for mechanical designers and drafters to improve the design experience by simplifying complex mechanical

19 15 design work. You can easily detail production drawings when changes are made to the 3D model, reducing errors and saving hours of time. This workflow allows engineering departments to build digital prototypes while taking full advantage of the skills and experience of the 2D drawing team. AutoCAD Mechanical has a specific tool for almost every aspect of the mechanical design process. AutoCAD Electrical software passes electrical design information for cables and conductors directly to Autodesk Inventor software to automatically create a 3D harness design, adding valuable electrical controls design data to the digital prototype. Inventor users can pass wire connectivity information to AutoCAD Electrical and automatically create the corresponding 2D schematics. The smooth integration between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor software helps you quickly create accurate 2D and 3D electrical designs. AutoCAD Electrical offers control engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend more time innovating. The software handles a lot of the engineering work, helping reduce errors significantly, if not completely. Brian Hess, Electrical Project Engineer, FRICK, by Johnson Controls Company Validating and optimising phase Autodesk s simulation software means you can increase your efficiency and productivity by having a digital prototype before creating a physical model. Autodesk Inventor Simulation software helps you predict how the design will work under real-world

20 16 conditions before building it. Inventor supports motion simulation and static and finite element analysis (FEA) at both the part and assembly level. Autodesk Moldflow is an injection molding simulation software, which helps you to optimise your plastic part and injection mold designs, shortening development times, reducing costs and avoiding manufacturing defects. Autodesk Moldflow Advisor guides designs through analysis setup and results interpretation, and helps to optimise part and mold designs. Autodesk Moldflow Insight is a complete set of advanced plastics engineering simulation tools for in-depth analysis and optimisation of the creation of molded parts and their associated molds. Moldflow Insight offers powerful functionality that can simulate the most advanced molding processes in use today. Autodesk Algor Simulation software provides a broad range of mechanical simulation tools to help designers and engineers make critical decisions early in the design process. With extensive finite element modelling tools and built-in material libraries, you can study initial design intent and accurately simulate the behaviour of a digital prototype. Autodesk Algor Simulation software supports direct, associative data exchange with most CAD software tools, so you can make design changes without redefining simulation data. By helping you predict product performance, including situations in which multiple physical factors interact simultaneously, Autodesk Algor Simulation software helps you validate and optimise designs before manufacturing.

21 17 The responses speak for themselves By bringing FEA and MES in-house, we ve slashed both the time and cost for design validation by 50 60%. The bottom line is that Autodesk supports our ability to innovate quickly and cost-effectively. Albert Allen, Mechanical Designer, Tucker Sno-Cat Corporation Autodesk understands innovation and delivers both products and services in a flexible solution that supports our innovation and market growth strategies on a global scale. Craig Maxwell VP Technology and Innovation, Parker Hannifin Digital Prototyping helps us make engineering changes, see the impacts visually, adjust them aesthetically, and then develop the tooling. It s an amazingly efficient process. Richard Schulz, Managing Director, ADEPT Airmotive A tool can save you time, or be cheaper, but if you lose the character or the feeling of the design from the original sketches, you ve lost. Using Alias for the concept stage let us have accuracy and freedom at the same time. Tim Doherty, Senior Designer, Magna Steyr Design Autodesk technologies for Digital Prototyping have enabled us to save time, reduce errors, and correctly manage a large number of design resources. Stefano Fanucci, Project Manager, V50 High Speed Train Platform, Ansaldobreda/a Finmeccanica Company

22 18 Data management phase Autodesk data management tools enable design workgroups to manage and track all the design components for a digital prototype, helping them to better reuse design data, manage bills of materials, and promote early collaboration with global manufacturing teams and clients. The Autodesk Vault product line securely stores and manages engineering design data and related documents that make up a complete digital prototype. It automates the design revision and release processes and manages engineering bills of materials. Autodesk Vault Workgroup helps design teams easily create and share digital prototyping information by securely organising, managing and tracking data from a central location. In addition, Vault Workgroup delivers revision and lifecycle control processes directly in the design application, which results in faster cycle times and better-quality engineering data. Autodesk Vault Collaboration has all the functionality of Autodesk Vault Workgroup and includes an advanced toolset providing administrators with the scalability needed to manage large workgroups. Share engineering design data with the shop floor with the included web client and communicate design related information by publishing to Microsoft SharePoint. Autodesk Vault Professional includes all of the functionality of Vault Collaboration plus additional tools, helping to shorten the design-to-manufacturing process. The advanced functionality

23 19 enables design departments to track engineering change orders, manage bills of materials and promote earlier collaboration through data exchange with other business systems. Visualising phase Visualisation and manufacturing experts can take advantage of Autodesk software to visualise complete manufacturing facilities, industrial machinery, factory floor models, and production lines in a single environment. Combine together CAD data from various design systems regardless of the format or size, for complete assembly, visualisation and optimisation. Autodesk Showcase Professional enables you to present multiple design options, locally and via remote sessions, before team members and customers make decisions. Viewing photorealistic imagery in real-world contexts gives reviewers the confidence to approve designs while you enjoy an efficient, economical review process. Visualisation experts can take advantage of high-end visualisation environments and tools for automating the workflow, enhancing asset and presentation authoring, and building complex setups. You can evaluate multiple design variations by creating highly realistic, accurate, and compelling imagery from your 3D CAD data. Autodesk 3ds Max Design software enables you to leverage engineering data to create advanced rendering and animated visualisations of digital prototypes. It contains a complete suite of CAD

24 20 data preparation, modelling, effects and rendering tools to create the highest quality photorealistic, stylistic still and animated visualisations. Modelling in 3ds Max Design has always been intuitive. Now, it just got a whole lot easier. Nicholas Fox, Architect, FOXCAD Pty Limited Autodesk Navisworks Manage helps design and construction professionals anticipate and avoid potential problems before construction. Autodesk Navisworks Simulate provides comprehensive 4D simulation, animation and photorealism to provide better insight and predictability into design and construction. Realtime navigation combines with review toolsets to support collaboration among the project team. With Navisworks, we re 95% to 97% clash-free. Chris Milford, MD, Milltechnology Documenting made easy with Inventor Publisher Autodesk provides software to easily document essential instructions. Autodesk Inventor Publisher is easy-to-use software for creating compelling product documentation so you can provide customers with clear and comprehensive technical instructions. Inventor Publisher extends the reach of Digital Prototyping to product documentation teams, giving non-cad users the ability to leverage the same digital model used in the design-tomanufacturing process to create assembly

25 21 instructions, operating procedures, repair instructions and more. With associative updates based on changes to the Autodesk Inventor software 3D design model, Inventor Publisher helps documentation teams start working earlier in the product development process, helping reduce rework and shorten time to market. My manuals are 20 years old today because of the time that it takes to rewrite them. Publisher will allow me to rework all of this documentation directly from my engineering designs automatically. Jim Allen, Owner, SunPumps Inc. For a more detailed look at any of these products or to request some more information, visit ww.3dnow.co.uk. w

26 Part III Bringing Designs to Life in Your Industry In This Part Finding out how Digital Prototyping can benefit you Reading some case studies Digital Prototyping is a powerful approach to improving the innovation process from a cost, quality and speed perspective. It focuses on getting the product design right before any materials are used to produce early units. In this part, we look at some of the different manufacturing industries to discover how you can adopt Digital Prototyping in your industry. We explain: How design technologies enable companies in your industry to create the functional, aesthetic and reliable characteristics you need in the innovation cycle. How workflow management and collaboration (one of the main advances of Digital Prototyping) can support, ensure and document an end-to end process for conceptualising, developing and prototyping a product.

27 Flying High with the Aerospace Industry Digital Prototyping can improve the transition of information from engineering to manufacturing to increase efficiency and improve time to market. 23 Autodesk tools extend Digital Prototyping to the factory floor by providing flexible, cost-effective engineering tools that enable design and multi-disciplinary engineering teams to innovate and validate products, access new materials and optimise manufacturing processes in the shortest amount of time. Within the aerospace supply chain you can work in an environment that accelerates product design, collaboration and interoperability, which provides tools that comply with industry and regulatory standards. Digital Prototyping helps you leverage the benefits of global engineering, while simultaneously managing distribution and access to key design data. We completed all our designs in Inventor. As a result, when we laser cut parts, we knew that they would all fit when we put them together because we d already analysed the motion of the assembly. Chuck Wiplinger, Chief Engineer, Wipaire Driving Force: Automotive and Transportation The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping helps you better conceptualise, model and test designs

28 24 before they re built so you don t spend too much time and money developing physical prototypes to debug and validate new designs. Active elements can be incorporated for evaluation, and stress analysis and dynamic simulation can reveal design and functional issues early in product development, avoiding costly and time-consuming later changes. Integrated and stand-alone mold analysis tools provide you with the ability to simulate and optimise plastic injection mold and process design during development. You can collaborate closely with customers and partners to design, model, test and market products that meet their needs before building them. The solution addresses all phases of the automotive and transportation development cycle and makes it easier to stay competitive in an increasingly intense global marketplace. Taking It to Market: Consumer Products You may be finding that new product development and production processes are increasingly dispersed across geographically widespread partners. Digital Prototyping can help you facilitate innovation, accelerate new product launches and optimise global supply chain collaboration. Autodesk offers a broad set of tools across all phases of product development to enable differentiation of consumer product brands through continuous innovation.

29 25 Customer success story: BigToys, Inc The Challenge: In continuing its role as a leader in the playground equipment industry and promoting responsible stewardship of natural resources, BigToys needed the power of 3D without compromising its investments in 2D processes. Why Autodesk? The ability to create 3D digital prototypes to experience ideas before they become reality. Flexible and fast iterative capability. Previous success with Autodesk Mechanical Desktop and the quality service and support. The Results: BigToys saved time, money and valuable resources by optimising and improving designs early in the design process. More innovative product designs and efficient processes followed. Designing with Inventor software is seamless. We can go from a crazy initial idea, to a finished part with very little redesigning or duplicated effort. We also have the added benefit of sophisticated rendering and an animation, which helps us better communicate our design intent to others, and eliminate potential manufacturing errors. Brian Lovgren, Engineering Manager, BigToys, Inc

30 26 Integrating Workflows for Building Products and Fabrication Industries Customers are increasingly asking for 3D- and Business Information Modelling-ready (BIM) models. Developing a complete and accurate digital prototype gives manufacturers of building products, equipment, and custom fabricated components the ability to: Design, visualise and simulate products digitally before they re built. Effectively communicate and collaborate with architects, engineers and builders who use a BIM process. Win more customers and project bids. Enable design decisions to be made earlier in the design process, resulting in greater cost savings. Digital Prototyping, combined with Autodesk s leadership in BIM, uniquely positions Autodesk to deliver an integrated workflow that enables better productivity, predictability and control throughout the life of the project. This integrated workflow is changing the way manufacturing and architectural companies think about their design practices and is helping them build better products faster, with greater confidence and fewer costs. Unlike other vendors, Autodesk is the only company that can offer these capabilities in a way that is truly scalable, attainable and cost-effective for manufacturers, architects, engineers, and builders.

31 27 Cooking Up a Storm for the Food and Beverage Equipment Industry Quickly develop innovative designs with a more complete understanding of risk, total cost of ownership and maintenance requirements, which are critical aspects for securing and managing profitable projects and contracts. Digital Prototyping allows you to uniquely demonstrate your compelling capabilities to customers, while shortening bid cycle times and increasing bid accuracy. Customer success story: KYSOR Panel Systems The Challenge: KYSOR Panel Systems needed to shorten the design cycle by automating the design process. Why Autodesk? Helps salespeople turn around customer quotes faster. Enables more accurate and automated bills of materials (BOMs) and drawings. Directly connects designs to manufacturing processes. The Results: Engineering design time was reduced from two weeks to as little as one day. (continued)

32 28 (continued) Orders were completed faster and errors in manufacturing were reduced. KYSOR could provide more accurate, detailed quotes to customers. One of our major business goals is improving the sales process. With help from a Digital Prototyping workflow based on Inventor software, we re able to provide faster, smarter designs, even as we explore all avenues for saving our customers money. David Johnson, Manager of Information Systems, KYSOR Panel Systems Increasing the Strength of Industrial Machinery Manufacturers The economic climate may be forcing your company to find ways to improve product quality and reduce time-to-market, all while lowering costs. Manufacturing design software enables you to connect all phases of the product development process to create a single digital model. Digital Prototyping enables you to conceptualise, model and test industrial machinery before actually building the physical product. This provides the most effective way to stay ahead of the competition and achieve maximum return on design software investments.

33 Conceptual design benefits for industrial machinery manufacturers include: 29 Bid process support. You can prepare bids faster using AutoCAD Inventor to easily leverage existing design, development and manufacturing data. System engineering and design. You can create electrical and mechanical systems designs with AutoCAD Electrical and AutoCAD Mechanical software and communicate digital data through the engineering phase. Configuration. You can develop product platforms and easily drive custom product variants with Autodesk Inventor and also automatically update bill of materials (BOM) information. Data Management. You can accelerate development cycles by organising and managing key designs and development information in Autodesk Vault software. With Autodesk, we have the tools to visualise and adapt changes, keep our errors down to a minimum, and provide customers with what they are expecting and more. Ben Gilmore, Project Chief Designer, Bosch Rexroth Getting Better with Medical Devices If you work in the medical devices industry, you need to find new ways to effectively communicate the functionality of your medical products so as to educate and instill confidence in medical practitioners, patients and institutions.

34 30 Autodesk gives you the tools to effectively educate doctors and patients in a format that s compelling and easy to understand with stunning visualisations and high impact animations. Digital Prototyping helps you reduce the time required to obtain regulatory approval by managing design, engineering and manufacturing data from concept to production. With Autodesk tools you can organise, manage and track critical products and process data to meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements, while protecting your valuable intellectual property. Customer success story: B-K Medical The Challenge: To grow its leadership position in the industry, B-K Medical sought a solution that would help it address every aspect of its key business goal: designing and delivering groundbreaking designs with exemplary functionality. Why Autodesk? Autodesk provided a Digital Prototyping solution to help develop and produce high-performance diagnostic ultrasound equipment. The Results: B-K Medical increased its competitive advantage. Costly physical prototypes were abandoned. Complex forms and geometries were handled with ease. The design process was accelerated.

35 31 Digital Prototyping was the obvious choice to address our challenges because of its powerful 3D design and centralised storage capabilities. Niels Christian Sasady, Senior Developer, B-K Medical, Inc For more information, visit

36 Part IV Changing Your World: Digital Prototyping for Education In This Part Bringing the Digital Prototyping portfolio to schools, colleges and universities Using curricula to guide students There s tremendous worldwide demand for engineering and design professionals who possess relevant education and technology skills to address current and future challenges. Educators need to successfully transition students to professional careers with software tools that support industry trends such as Digital Prototyping. Autodesk meets this need by providing educators with industry-oriented software suites to help students learn core design and engineering skills. The suites contain the full range of Autodesk 2D and 3D design software tools used by industry professionals worldwide. By encouraging a multidisciplinary educational approach, Autodesk helps educators

37 teach key concepts such as Digital Prototyping. This helps to prepare students for rewarding careers in architecture, engineering and the digital arts. Knowing What s on Offer Autodesk offers tailored suites for post-secondary, higher and further education teaching: 33 Autodesk Education Master Suite features innovative tools that support industry trends such as Digital Prototyping. It includes Autodesk s widest product portfolio, covering AEC, engineering and digital arts. Autodesk Education Suite for Architecture and Engineering helps aspiring architects and engineers acquire and master skills needed for sustainable design. Autodesk Education Suite for Civil and Structural Engineering offers a host of design visualisation tools commonly used in professional practice. Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation offers a wide range of artist-driven tools designed to handle tough production challenges. Autodesk Education Suite for Industrial Design helps students create accurate and highly realistic visualisations of digital prototypes. Autodesk Education Suite for Mechanical Engineering enables students to produce highly realistic design visualisations and simulation of digital prototypes.

38 34 These suites consist of the latest versions of 21 industryleading Autodesk products, including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Autodesk Alias Design, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Revit Architecture. The innovative features and functionality of these products help aspiring design professionals explore design ideas and learn about key concepts and industry trends, helping to improve their competitive advantage in the workplace. Being Supported by Professionally Developed Curricula The suites are supported by curricula that include professionally developed lecture notes, student workbooks, projects and other valuable tools to help instructors teach crucial skills. Among the curricula included in the suites are: Autodesk Sustainable Design Curriculum, a series of lessons that explores the methods and tools to prepare students for the integrated practice of sustainable design. Autodesk Conceptual Design Curriculum, which teaches conceptual design using exploration, iterative design and various modelling techniques. Autodesk Civil Engineering Curriculum, which helps deepen students understanding of engineering design and analysis. Autodesk Inventor Education Curriculum, featuring 3D mechanical design concepts from sketching, modelling and documentation to analysis and visualisation.

39 35 Autodesk Industry Careers Framework for Games and Animation approaches learning 3D through the core subjects taught in traditional creative studies, including modules on animation and interactive 3D space. In addition to the post-secondary products, Autodesk offers two suites to introduce secondary school students to the concepts associated with Digital Prototyping: Autodesk Design Academy 2011 includes 2D and 3D software and learning tools to help educators inspire students to pursue academic degrees in architecture, engineering and design. Autodesk Animation Academy, which is a modular suite that helps educators inspire students to explore careers in the digital arts, entertainment and visualisation fields. All curricula are available at the Autodesk Education Community, an online resource for students and educators at

40 Part V Ten Reasons to Choose Digital Prototyping What better way to end this book than to give you a snapshot of ten reasons to choose Digital Prototyping. Digital Prototyping enables manufacturing workgroups to develop a single digital model that can be used in every stage of production, and delivers the fastest path to ROI. Digital Prototyping is uniquely scalable, attainable and cost effective, which means you can deploy and integrate it with minimal disruption to your business. Inventor software enables engineers to integrate AutoCAD drawings and 3D data into a digital model, helping reduce reliance on physical prototypes and minimise manufacturing costs. Smooth integration between Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical helps your electrical and mechanical teams to work collaboratively and efficiently on 2D and 3D mechatronic product designs.

41 37 AutoCAD Mechanical enables you to quickly detail production drawings using industry-specific manufacturing tools, reducing errors and saving hours of time. Autodesk Digital Prototyping solutions such as Algor and Moldflow provide tightly integrated tools for calculations, stress, deflection and motion simulation, which are performed based on real-world constraints. Autodesk digital factory tools such as Navisworks allow you to visualise complete manufacturing facilities, industrial machinery, factory floor models and production lines in a single environment. Autodesk 3ds Max Design provides advanced rendering and animated visualisations of digital prototypes, which can be used for sales and marketing long before building begins. Data management tools such as Vault enable design workgroups to manage and track all the design components of a digital prototype, helping you better reuse design data, manage the release and change process, and promote early collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients. Digital Prototyping provides the most straightforward path to create and maintain a single digital model in a multidisciplinary environment.

42 DIGITAL PROTOTYPING FOR THE AEROSPACE SUPPLY CHAIN Do you want to enable better design, visualisation and simulation of your product with less reliance on costly physical prototypes? The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping allows you to streamline your design process and improve communication with key stakeholders. Improve your time to market and increase your competitive advantage For more information or to find your nearest reseller: Visit: Call:

43 Go Beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping Autodesk is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software to help customers experience their ideas digitally before they are built. Now, over 10 million professionals in 185 countries are using Autodesk Products to save time and money, gain competitive advantage, and change the way ideas are brought to life. Man and Machine is a value added distributor working exclusively within the digital design community. We have been a distributor of Autodesk software for 20 years and today the Man and Machine Group is the biggest Autodesk distributor worldwide. From the multidisciplined AutoCAD to the complexities of Autodesk Alias Design, Man and Machine support Autodesk s Digital Prototyping solutions with a wealth of sales, admin, marketing and technical support.

44 Save time and reduce costly errors Autodesk Digital Prototyping takes you beyond 3D design Design errors and cost overruns impact time to market. Imagine being able to get a product to market 60 days ahead of the competition. We ll show you how. Digital Prototyping brings together design data from all phases of the product development process to create a single digital model. This mini book explains how a single digital model simulates the finished product and gives you the ability to better visualise, optimise and manage your design before producing a physical prototype. Lower prototyping costs Drive greater innovation Integrate 2D data within a 3D model Explanations in plain English Get in, get out information Icons and other navigational aids A dash of humour and fun Find listings of all our books Choose from among many different subject categories Sign up for etips at etips.dummies.com ISBN: Not for resale