Consumer Products
In today`s world, consumers demand reliable, cutting-edge products that provide significant added value. The companies that design these products are rewarded with sales, prestige, and brand loyalty.
SolidWorks provides a complete range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, communication and validation tools that consumer product designers need in order to develop superior products faster and at a lower cost.
Click on the link(s) below to view how SolidWorks can help you meet your challenges at each stage of the Consumer Product design.
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Transform Creative Concepts into 3D Designs
With Instant3D, you can accurately achieve your customers’ design visions by converting their 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids that can be used, manipulated, and modified in your consumer product designs.
SolidWorks also offers:
- ScanTo3D. Scan and import physical part models
(foam models, for example) into SolidWorks.
- The ability to import mathematical models in I-DEAS® Unigraphics® / NX™, Pro / E®, DWG, VDAFS, IGES, STEP and other formats.
- DWGeditor® and other data tools that allow you to easily import and work on data from other CAD systems.
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Easily evaluate multiple Design Alternatives
Thanks to SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology) and our heads-up interface, you are now able to create and deliver innovative, accurate 3D models, by making fewer selections and clicks. With a small learning curve, this technology allows beginners to design at an expert level.
SolidWorks also offers:
- SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Manage design versions, track changes, and avoid accidental overwriting of files.
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Communicate your Design Ideas
With tools such as eDrawings® files, Adobe® 3D PDF, DWGviewer and 3D Instant Website you can easily share 3D designs not only with your colleagues, but also with your customers and suppliers -regardless of the platform form they use.
- PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities.
Use photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly illustrate the appearance and performance of products.
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Reduce Prototyping Time and Costs
Before your designs reach the production floor, you can determine how well they will function with a fully integrated design validation software, including stress, thermal, kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities.
SolidWorks also offers:
- DFMXpress. Test your models to detect manufacturing problems on screen, rather than on the production floor.
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Create vastly detailed 3D Designs
With great ease, your product designs in SolidWorks can achieve a remarkable level of detail. When working in 3D, you can fully define design elements such as materials, wall thicknesses, hole depths, inlays, and transitions between elements. You can even close hard-to-finish openings in SolidWorks or imported geometry.
SolidWorks also offers:
- Advanced surfacing tools, including sweep/loft, bending, stretching, twisting, and tapering. Create complex ergonomic shapes & surfaces by simply pushing and pulling on control points
- Fully associative top-down and bottom-up design techniques
- Sheet-metal design tools with ready-made Smart Fasteners Technology
- Mold development and analysis tools
- Configuration Management for parts and assemblies
- Single-button integration of an extensive selection of SolidWorks Partner Solutions
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Publish complete & accurate Documentation
If your products are ready for production and Marketing, SolidWorks provides integrated bill of material generation capabilities, as well as functions of publication that allow you to create detailed assembly procedures, manuals, and consumer instructions.
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