Digital Prototyping Software

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Evolve the Way You Think About Your Design Process
Share a single digital model from conceptual design through to manufacturing. Visualize, optimize, and manage your design before producing a physical prototype to better enable collaboration and innovation. You’ll save time and money, build better products, and beat your competition to market.

Until recently, the ability to build and test a digital prototype has been out of reach for most manufacturing companies. But by making it cost-effective for design and manufacturing workgroups, Autodesk is uniquely positioned to bring Digital Prototyping to a broader market.

Best-In-Class Conceptual Design
With Autodesk® AliasStudio™ software, you can optimize your design process and work digitally from project outset using best-in-class conceptual design tools. Capture ideas digitally—from initial sketches to 3D concept models using Autodesk AliasStudio—then share those designs with the engineering team using a common file format, allowing a product's industrial design data to be incorporated into the digital prototype.

Facilitate informed and streamlined decision-making with realistic representations of the product created from 3D design data with Autodesk® Showcase® software. You can easily present a range of design options to help reduce the time, cost, and the need for building physical prototypes with Autodesk Showcase.

Integrated 2D and 3D Mechanical and Electrical
Autodesk® Inventor® software is the foundation for Digital Prototyping. The AutoCAD Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that enables users to validate design and engineering data as they work, minimize the need for physical prototypes, and reduce costly engineering changes discovered after the design is sent to manufacturing.

The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping includes AutoCAD® Electrical software for electrical control system design. The sharing of electrical design information from AutoCAD Electrical, with the cable and harness functionality of AutoCAD Inventor, allows mechanical and electrical teams to work collaboratively on the digital prototype.

The bi-directional communication between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor helps users quickly create accurate 2D and 3D electrical designs in less time. AutoCAD® Mechanical software allows designers and drafters to easily detail and document native Inventor models. AutoCAD Mechanical, a purpose-built 2D mechanical design and drafting application, is included in the AutoCAD Inventor product line.

Connect All to the Digital Prototype
Connecting all the workgroups to the digital prototype is the Autodesk® Vault® Workgroup family of product data management applications. These modular, scalable, and practical tools enable design workgroups to manage and track all the design components for a digital prototype, access critical design information, and make smarter business decisions.

These Autodesk Vault Workgroup tools automate the design revision and release processes and manage engineering bills of materials. This shortens production times, increases the ability to leverage standardized design processes, and facilitates better collaboration among design, manufacturing, and vendors.

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