The use of APS in New Ford GT40s

APS utilizes CAD Design with SolidWorks and simulation tools for designing Ford GT40s to cut the cost of designs by 50%. The tool reduces the assembling time by 40% which in turn decrease the overall development cost and make it more accessible.

Ford manages the maintenance cost tolerance

Ford Company has employed Sigmundworks, Sigmund ABA and SOLIDWORKS to keep up the tolerances. These plug-ins greatly help to identify the design bugs, which are addressed and treated before they result in significant monetary losses.

JL Race cars simulating and modeling

Since beginning JLE has been using CAD- 2D, AutoCAD Mechanical, and 3D SOLIDWORKS platforms. These tools have efficiently reduced the design cycle’s cost by 70%. Moreover, JLE has standardized its product lifecycle by using SOLIDWORKS designs, analysis, and product data management solutions.

Overall, with these CAD tools the efficiency, performance, and accessibility of the automotive industry can be increased manifolds.

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Create and Sell Designs

The most affordable and easiest way to start earning money is by creating and selling 3D designs. To create and sell designs, you need to follow three simple steps

1. Learn Designing: You can learn dressing creation on CAD tools which doesn’t take much time to learn even the complex designs. Create complex shapes, customized designs, and moving parts to leverage the power of 3D printing.
2. Watertight Design: Once you learn to design, you must verify if your design is watertight (3D printable). There are several free tools that help you with the verification and correction of your design.
3. Sell your Design: Once you are ready with a 3D printable design, you can sell your designs on various online outlets available.

Offer a 3D printing service

Offering a 3D printing service is a simple concept but not as easy as it looks. The investment of a printer itself costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. To offer a 3D printing service there are a few steps that you need to follow.

1. Printer Selection: Several factors affect the process of printer selection such as cost, output quality, ease of use, and versatility.
2. Mastering Intricacies: Once you select a printer, you need to experiment with it and learn tips and tricks to efficiently use a 3D printer.
3. Offer Service: Once you are an expert at 3D printing, you offer your services on various 3D printing networks.

Leverage 3D printing-based service/products

Leveraging 3D printing requires the most amount of cost investment and creativity requirement. However, it also gives the highest returns. Here you sell 3D printing revolutionized products as an online business. There are a few steps you need to follow to take the advantage of 3D printing service business.

1. Idea: You need to come up with an idea for a product or a service that you want to sell. For example, you can allow people to customize designs on your site and print them based on their customization.
2. Website: Once you have a service/ product idea, you need a website for your business.
3. Partnership: If your website starts growing, you should partner with existing providers of 3D printing services.
4. Optimize operational process: As you grow, the need for a refined operational process will grow.

The secret to the growth of 3D printing depends on technology, creative minds, and businessmen. Even if one of these steps back 3D printing could just be the Titanic of the printing world. The more people use it, the more the scope of its growth.

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Earlier the parts and equipment designed in the pre-CAD era caused problems in industries right from aerospace to power generation. Things that were designed without the benefit of CAD technology used to lack the critical documentation and information that was necessary for creating accurate models. Therefore, reverse engineering was essential in order to create CAD models needed by engineers and came into existence.

Understanding Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering is a technology that helped in creating a three-dimensional virtual model of an existing physical part. Manufacturers made use of reverse engineering to deconstruct products or systems and evaluate, improve, or transform obsolete design information. However, now there are a number of optical measurement systems available for engineers today that are the best alternative to previous methods. Have a look at the tools that are now mainly used for reverse engineering:

Handheld Scanner

Traditional methods such as creating 3D models based on hand measurement and 2D drawing are expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it became crucial to use 3D scanning for reverse engineering. Handheld Scanners can digitize 3-D surfaces and input relevant information into CAD systems. The tool is also famous to speed up the reverse engineering process.

CAD Design with SolidWorks

Solidworks is the most acceptable tool across the globe and helps in streamlining the design process by refining the existing designs or creating new ones. It can help in the development of 3D models, export to the 3D printer for the development of a prototype, or create molds.

Point Cloud

Point Clouds are developed by 3D scanners that measure huge points over the surface of an object and give the output in the form of a data file. Therefore, the point cloud is used in the creation of 3D CAD models in case of quality inspection, animation, visualization and for manufactured parts.

Geomagic Design X

The tool is built for converting 3D scan data to high-quality and feature-oriented CAD models. Geomagic Design X not only helps in creating feature-based models but also an editable solid model that is compatible with the existing CAD software. Also, it is the most comprehensive reverse engineering software.

HighRES Add-in for Inventor

It is highly compatible laser scanning software that is available today and functions to easily transfer scanned data for further enhancement. The tool can help in obtaining measurement data, convert it to a parametric CAD model, and has many more features. They are developed in order to support the current release of the respective CAD/CAM software.

Innovation for the Future

The aforementioned is the list of software that works for active development giving an emphasis on renewal and innovation. If you are looking for a partner who can assist you in reverse engineering tools, take up the Product Design using Reverse Engineering course from IID. Within the course, professionals with expertise in reverse engineering will help in your knowledge expansion and subject training.

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• Model libraries: The previous decade has allowed us to share data and hence enabled designers to share their 3D models. Online model libraries like Sketchup 3D Warehouse have introduced a new way for users to share their products, and get feedback or inspiration in a community environment.

• Direct modeling: Direct modeling has been there for a long time. But earlier it was just limited to animation. It allows designers to directly change the appearance, shape, and texture of a model without having to repeat the tasks of building the geometry or interconnecting different sketches together to build something new. The improvements in this technology have allowed designers to quickly twist, stretch and make other design changes without changing the fundamentals of a model.

• Modeling/rendering love: With rendering companies being acquired by MCAD companies, a powerful union of the two worlds has been observed. It has allowed designers to easily bring their models to life.

CADD Center provides software training programs for 3ds Max Software, AutoCAD RCC, and AutoCAD Civil 3D which allows students to understand project performance better, and have quicker design, analysis, and response to changes.

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