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Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk Inventor is the best choice for AutoCAD users moving to 3D.

Autodesk® Inventor™ software is the foundation for digital prototyping. The 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. With innovative approaches to accelerate and simplify the concept-to-manufacturing process, Inventor has outsold all competitors for the sixth consecutive year.

As the creators of AutoCAD software, Autodesk understands your design process and created Inventor to make the process of adding 3D as easy as possible. Autodesk is focused on helping designers create accurate digital prototypes and bring better products to market faster at less cost. Inventor gives designers the freedom to integrate existing 2D designs into their 3D design environment, making it easy to reuse and share both AutoCAD DWG™ files and 3D design data with other Autodesk manufacturing applications and their users. With different product configurations that offer specific levels of functionality, Inventor is the best choice for AutoCAD users in the manufacturing space.

NX Version 5 is the next generation of UGS’ digital product development software. Designed to help companies develop innovative products faster and more cost-efficiently, NX 5 includes breakthrough technology innovations that deliver the highest level of productivity to date. With a new look and feel and improvements throughout its broad suite of integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE applications, NX brings greater productivity, flexibility, coordination, and strength to digital product development.

Pro/ENGINEER is the standard in 3D product design, featuring industry-leading productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Integrated Pro/ENGINEER CAD/CAM/CAE solutions allow you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products.

Benefits:

• Unsurpassed geometry creation capabilities allow superior product differentiation and manufacturability
• Fully integrated applications allow you to develop everything from concept to manufacturing within one application
• Automatic propagation of design changes to all downstream deliverables allows you to design with confidence
• Complete virtual simulation capabilities enable you to improve product performance and exceed product quality goals
• Automated generation of associative tooling design, assembly instructions, and machine code allow for maximum production efficiency

Solid Edge is powerful 3D CAD software that allows manufacturing companies to transform their process of innovation and achieve competitive advantage. A fundamental component of the UGS Velocity Series portfolio, Solid Edge delivers an exceptional return on investment for a low total cost of ownership. With a unique 4-step process for evolving to the productive world of 3D, superior core modeling, embedded design management, built in finite element analysis, and process workflows, Solid Edge delivers the benefits of a fully integrated and managed design discipline that eases the growing complexity of product design.

Solid Edge is built on a foundation of superior core modeling and process workflows that help engineers design more rapidly by modeling parts more efficiently than other CAD systems. Solid Edge harnesses the power of Parasolid ® - the modeling kernel owned and developed by UGS and, at more than a million licensed seats, the de-facto standard for 3D mechanical CAD.

Solid Edge is the only mainstream mechanical system that merges design management capabilities with the CAD tools that designers use every day. Solid Edge customers have a choice of scalable product data management solutions that manage designs as quickly as they are created. Practical tools for managed collaboration help to better coordinate design team activities and remove the errors that result from miscommunication. Product and process complexity is a growing concern for manufacturing organizations. Thousands of companies around the world have come to rely on Solid Edge to battle this increasing complexity head-on.

3D Mechanical Design Solutions

Develop more accurate and reliable product designs through the unmatched 2D and 3D capabilities of SolidWorks mechanical design solutions.

SolidWorks® Office Premium

A complete 3D product design solution, providing your product design team with all the mechanicaldesign, verification, motion simulation, data management, and communication tools that they need in one package.

SolidWorks Office Professional

A robust suite of core productivity tools, SolidWorks Office Professional includes SolidWorks 3D CAD software, a full range of design communication and CAD productivity tools and PDMWorks, an easy-to-set-up-and-use product data management (PDM) solution that is uniquely adapted to managing SolidWorks product data for the individual or workgroup.

SolidWorks 3D Mechanical Design Software

SolidWorks offers unmatched 2D and 3D design capabilities, performance, and ease-of-use.

AutoCAD® OEM is a CAD development platform that provides tools to build custom AutoCAD-based software products for specific markets and extend design information to users outside the traditional CAD community. You can easily create industry-specific products that offer only the features, commands, menus, and design data that your customers require.

AutoCAD OEM is licensed to independent software developers, corporate developers, and system integrators who need to

• Deliver a product that requires CAD functionality but is not targeted at traditional CAD users
• Build products that can read and create DWG files that are fully compatible with AutoCAD DWG files
• Create host programs that run an application in a child window or through a web page
• Deliver products with scaled feature sets at scaled price points Provide an AutoCAD-based platform that cannot be customized or extended by end users
• Replace an aging CAD system and take advantage of new AutoCAD software technologies