Top 10 Reasons why Automotive Suppliers choose Autodesk

The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable and cost effective allowing a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits of digital prototyping with minimal disruption to existing workflows.

Autodesk® offers the most straightforward path for auto suppliers to create, share, and maintain a single digital model – enabling greater collaboration and innovation by bringing together design data from all phases of the product development process.

1. Conceptual Design Creativity Autodesk® offers a unique conceptual design approach that extends from sketch to completed surface. Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro provides a way for designers to start with a 2D digital sketching tool that emulates physical brushes and pencils. Sketches can be reused and transformed into 3D concept models and Class A surfaces with the Autodesk® AliasStudio™ product family, the solution of choice for Automotive industrial designers. Autodesk® Showcase™ and Autodesk® Opticore™ Realizer software provide a scalable implementation from desktop to high end visualization systems including state of the art real time ray tracing for interactive visual realism.

2. Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Design Autodeskprovides a cost effective and scalable solution for mechatronic development. Autodesk® Productstream® software enables various design elements within a mechatronic assembly – mechanical, electrical, and software – to be managed together with change control and release. In addition, Autodesk® Inventor® is able to incorporate circuit board designs from a variety of ECAD applications for the packaging of complex electromechanical products. In addition, Autodesk Inventor Professional software is able to incorporate control system designs from AutoCAD Electrical® software so that complex wiring harnesses can be bundled and routed in the context of an overall mechanical assembly.

3. Integrated Simulation and Analysis Autodesk Inventorsoftware provides powerful tools for dynamic simulation of assemblies and stress analysis of mechanical elements within those assemblies. These capabilities are designed for ease of use so that an engineer can easily use simulation results from the digital prototype and modify conditions or make design changes to quickly evaluate the effect on systems and components…