Design & Engineering

Optimise, automate and improve the quality of your designs

Would you like to improve the quality of your designs and work faster with fewer errors?

The design and engineering solutions and services we provide aim to support you to design more quickly, reduce designing and engineering costs and enable faster time to market of your products. Read more about the benefits of automating your design process, managing your product data more efficiently, simulation, generative design and drafting, and documenting your designs.

What can you achieve?

Efficient management

...of your engineering files and documents.

Re-use data

...efficiently.

Secure regular backups

...of your company’s engineering data.

Reduce the time spend

...on repetitive tasks.

Recreate reality

...in a virtual environment.

Automation of designs, tasks and processes

...to allow easy product configuration, intelligent customisation and quick processing.

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Altair® SimSolid® enables Mecon to slash its structural analysis time by 90%.

Meet Mecon

Founded in 1997, Mecon is an engineering design and fabrication company providing turnkey solutions for organisations in, among other sectors, the steel and mining industries in northern Sweden. The company is based across two locations, Luleå and Gällivare, also in northern Sweden.

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At Hermann's, Sovelia Core is the core of all data management around the company's products and projects, which enables high-quality deliveries and helps the company meet deadlines even in projects with many continuous changes throughout the project's life cycle.

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BGB - Merging two standalone Vaults | Seamless data migration enables cross-team collaboration for BGB’s transatlantic engineering projects

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For the team at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) to grow, they knew that there were inefficiencies in their existing processes, so they initially contacted Autodesk for support. This support involved training and post-processing creation.

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Autodesk Forma is here!

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NDA SUPPLY CHAIN EVENT

16 January 2025

The NDA group supply chain event is organised by the industry for the industry. The event attracts 1700 delegates, providing opportunities to network with more than 300 exhibiting companies. With a particular focus on SMEs, the aim is to attract new ...

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The Complete Autodesk Software List - All 112 Autodesk Products in one list

Have you ever wondered how many product titles Autodesk has in its design software portfolio? Well its 112 at this point in time, but with the continuous acquisitions this number is ever increasing. The design, Digital Prototyping, Building information modelling (BIM) etc……. tools created by Autodesk cover  multiple industry sectors and are used by over 10 million users in more than 185 countries. That’s pretty incredible!

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Understanding Autodesk Vault Purging

With the release of Vault Professional 2025, users can now purge their files as part of a lifecycle, making this a more seamless process and part of a standard user workflow. However, purging has been available either per file and initiated by the us ...

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