Tips & Tutorials Blog: manufacturing design

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Jim Swain, Synergis Project Manager for Manufacturing Solutions: And your iPad. And your customer’s iPad. If you’ve seen my profile picture you could assume that I am getting to be an old dog, getting set in my ways. I know my sons do. And I was feeling a little […]

How can my business be more competitive and innovate faster?  How do we reduce costs and improve our design process to get to market faster?  These are questions we hear every day from our clients.  In this highly competitive market, it is difficult for manufacturers to get ahead doing the same old process they have […]

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Todd Schmoock, Synergis Solutions Engineer: AutoCAD® Electrical uses what is called an environment file (wd.env) to control where the software retrieves data.  Some of the functions include where AutoCAD Electrical looks for vendor part numbers located in the databases, where the library is located for various symbols used, and […]

Do you manufacture building products?  If so, some of the following challenges may seem familiar to you: Creating marketing materials from designs Meeting customer demands and capturing your market share Creating and getting content into the hands of the building designer in the beginning of the process Leveraging your manufacturing data for building designers to […]

Do you want to get your designs to market faster? Do you want to use the least amount of materials while maintaining the highest quality? Do you want to change your bottom line by producing less physical prototypes? Do you want to offer high quality 3D visualizations to your marketing and sales teams? Karcher North […]

Do you manufacture large machinery?  Could you imagine designing, manufacturing, and delivering a new machine in only four months?  Sound impossible?  With Autodesk Product Design Suite, GK Machines is able to design and fabricate equipment customized to each customer’s unique application. To see how Autodesk Product Design Suite enables GK to be increasingly innovative and creative in their designs, check out the video below. […]

Feige Filling is a manufacturer of worldwide industrial equipment systems for automatic filling plants.  They are at the top of their field delivering more than 3500 filling systems around the world in the 40 years they have been around.  Feige Filling is a proponent of new technology and grasped onto Digital Prototyping to make their complex systems work […]

Simulation. By now you have heard this term. However, when we ask our customers “Do you simulate your designs?” we often hear “No” from smaller businesses. So we ask, “Why not?” There are a variety of reasons, but most come down to Not enough human resources to learn new tools to simulate designs. The cost […]

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Robert Reid, Manufacturing Solutions Engineer: This is a longer one, so if you need definitions for Functional Design  or Design Acclerators, please see my previous entry, Inventor 2013 Design Accelerators – Functional Design… The Pin Connection Design Accelerator is located on the Fasten Panel and calculates, designs, and performs […]

Posted February 25, 2013 by Robert Reid: Designers often calculate and design a shaft-hole fit. This problem influences the properties of the final product and its price of manufacturing. Use the adaptable interface in Design Accelerator to design the ideal fit. Limits and Fits are used to define tolerances for mating parts. Limits are most […]