Mechanical design is the first step in mechanical production and the most important factor that determines mechanical performance. In order to meet the high performance requirements of mechanical products, computer technology is widely used in mechanical design for auxiliary design and system analysis. The following are the ten most popular styles of mechanical engineering design software in the world.
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Autodesk Moldflow
As part of the Autodesk digital prototyping solution, Autodesk Moldflow Adviser provides customers with an easy-to-use tool that enables them to simulate, evaluate and optimize design solutions before processing and manufacturing. Reduce potential design errors, shorten the product development cycle, and reduce development costs.
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In the product design and manufacturing process, Moldflow provides two major simulation analysis software:
AMA (Moldflow Plastic Parts Consultant) and AMI (Moldflow Advanced Molding Analysis Expert).
AMA is easy to use and can quickly respond to the designer's analysis changes. Therefore, it is mainly aimed at injection molding product design engineers, project engineers and mold design engineers, and is used to quickly verify the manufacturing feasibility of the product in the early stages of product development. AMA can quickly give answers to basic manufacturing feasibility questions, such as "Can the product be fully filled?" Through this unique design mode, whether you are an experienced expert or a novice, AMA will make you feel to the reliability and practicality of injection molding simulation.
Moldflow overall solution With the vigorous development of the plastics industry and plastic-related industries, competition in the plastics industry has become increasingly fierce. On the one hand, raw material prices and labor costs continue to rise. On the other hand, product sales prices continue to decline, while product quality, functions, etc. The requirements are constantly improving and the delivery cycle is required to be shorter.
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AutoCAD
AutoCAD software is an automatic computer-aided design software produced by the American Autodesk Co., Ltd. (Autodesk). It can be used for drawing, two-dimensional drawing, and basic three-dimensional design. It can automatically draw without knowing programming, so it It is widely used around the world and can be used in civil construction, decoration, industrial drawing, engineering drawing, electronic industry, clothing processing and other fields.
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Although AutoCAD has powerful graphics functions, its table processing function is relatively weak. In actual work, it is often necessary to make various tables in AutoCAD, such as engineering quantity tables. How to make tables efficiently is a very practical problem. AutoCAD can create basic graphics objects such as lines, circles, ellipses, polygons, and splines in a variety of ways. Drawing aids.
AutoCAD provides drawing auxiliary tools such as orthogonal, object snapping, polar tracking, and snap tracking. The ortho function allows users to easily draw horizontal and vertical straight lines, object snapping helps pick up special points on geometric objects, and the tracking function makes it easier to draw diagonal lines and locate points in different directions.
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Starting from AutoCAD2000, the system has added many powerful functions, such as AutoCAD Design Center (ADC), Multi-Document Design Environment (MDE), Internet driver, new object snapping function, enhanced annotation function and partial opening and partial loading. Function.
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Pro/Engineer
Pro/Engineer operating software is an integrated CAD/CAM/CAE three-dimensional software owned by the American PTC Company. Pro/Engineer software is famous for its parametric technology. It is the earliest adopter of parametric technology and occupies an important position in the current field of three-dimensional modeling software. Pro/Engineer has been recognized and promoted by the industry as a new standard in the field of mechanical CAD/CAE/CAM in the world today. It is one of the mainstream CAD/CAM/CAE software today, especially occupying an important position in the field of domestic product design.
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In the Pro/Engineer software version, in addition to using major versions such as proe2001, Wildfire, WildFire2.0, WildFire3.0, WildFire4.0 and WildFire5.0, there are also minor version differences in date codes in each major version. The date codes represent the release date sequence of the major releases.
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SolidWorks
SolidWorks is an original 3D design software based on Windows system. With its easy-to-use and friendly interface, SolidWorks can completely automatically capture design intentions and guide design modifications throughout the product design process. In SolidWorks assembly design, new parts can be generated directly by referring to existing parts. Regardless of whether the design uses a "top-down" method or a "bottom-up" method for assembly design, SolidWorks will greatly improve the efficiency of the design with its easy-to-use operations.
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Users not only use SolidWorks software to solve general parts design problems, but more and more users are beginning to use SolidWorks software to handle system-level large-scale assembly designs, and their requirements for the speed of uploading large assemblies are getting higher and higher. Facing the needs of users, the R&D department of SolidWorks managed to improve the upload speed of large assemblies from different angles, including the application of distributed data processing and graphics compression technology, which improved the performance of large assemblies by several percent. ten times.
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Unigraphics NX
UG (UnigraphicsNX) is a product engineering solution produced by Siemens PLM Software. It provides digital modeling and verification means for users' product design and processing processes.
UnigraphicsNX provides proven solutions for users' virtual product design and process design needs. UG is also the abbreviation of User Guide and Universal Grammer; it is also called Ghost in DOTA.
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The development of UG began in 1969, and it was developed and implemented based on C language. UGNX is a flexible software tool for numerically solving partial differential equations developed using adaptive multigrid methods on unstructured grids in two and three dimensions.
UG is an interactive CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) system. It is powerful and can easily realize the construction of various complex entities and shapes. At the beginning of its birth, it was mainly based on workstations. However, with the development of PC hardware and the rapid growth of individual users, its application on PCs has achieved rapid growth and has become a mainstream application for 3D design in the mold industry.
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Using NX modeling, industrial designers can quickly create and refine complex product shapes and use advanced rendering and visualization tools to maximize the aesthetic requirements of the design concept.
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Cimatron
Cimatron is a product of the famous Israeli software company Cimatron. Cimatron's subsidiary in China is Simeichuang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. Now Cimatron is owned by the American 3D Systems company. Over the years, Cimatron's CAD/CAM solutions have successfully become an indispensable tool in enterprise equipment from small mold manufacturing plants to the manufacturing departments of large companies around the world.
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Since its founding in 1982, Cimatron's innovative technology and strategic direction have positioned Cimatron Ltd. as a recognized leader in the CAD/CAM field. As the leader in CAD/CAM integrated solutions for the manufacturing industry, we are committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective software solutions for mold, tool and other manufacturers to streamline the manufacturing cycle and strengthen the relationship between manufacturers and external sellers. Collaborate to dramatically reduce product delivery time.
Whether you are designing for manufacturing or generating safe, efficient and high-quality NC tool paths for 2.5 to 5-axis milling operations. , Cimatron's manufacturing-oriented CAD/CAM solutions provide customers with the ability to handle complex parts and complex manufacturing cycles. Cimatron ensures that the product you manufacture is exactly what you designed every time.
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The new Chinese version Cimatron E10.0 launched by Cimatron Company, its CAD/CAM software solution includes a set of tools for easy 3D design, allowing users to conveniently process the obtained data model or carry out conceptual design of products. Version 10.0 has made very obvious progress in design and data interface.
Today more than four thousand customers worldwide use Cimatron's CAD/CAM solutions to manufacture products for a variety of industries. These industries include: automotive, aerospace, computers, electronics, consumer goods, medicine, military, optical instruments, communications and toys.
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Mastercam
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Mastercam not only has powerful and stable modeling functions, which can design complex curves and surface parts, but also has powerful surface roughing and flexible surface finishing functions. Its reliable tool path verification function allows Mastercam to simulate the entire process of part processing. In the simulation, it can not only display the tools and fixtures, but also check the interference and collision between the tools and fixtures and the processed parts, truly reflecting the actual situation during the processing process. , worthy of being an excellent CAD/CAM software. At the same time, Mastercam has lower requirements for the system operating environment, so that users can obtain the best results whether in modeling design, CNC milling machines, CNC lathes or CNC wire cutting and other processing operations.
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Mastercam has powerful surface roughing and flexible surface finishing functions. Mastercam offers a variety of advanced roughing techniques to improve the efficiency and quality of part processing. Mastercam also has a wealth of surface finishing capabilities, from which you can choose the best method to machine the most complex parts. Mastercam's multi-axis machining function provides more flexibility for part processing.
Mastercam's strength lies in CNC machining. It is easy to use and the NC programs generated are simple and efficient. The main competitors include UGNX, Edgecam, WorkNC, Cimtron, Delcam (Powermill), PTC (Pro/NC), Space-e, CAMWORKS, HyperMILL, etc. Compared with these software, it has an overwhelming advantage in 2D processing; in terms of curved surfaces , has an advantage in simple rules; in terms of multi-axis surfaces, third-party 5-axis multi-surface processing has been introduced in X3, making it still the king in general CNC machining.
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Mastercam software has been widely used in the design and NC processing of general machinery, aviation, shipbuilding, military and other industries. Since the late 1980s, my country has introduced this famous CAD/CAM software, which has rapidly contributed to my country's manufacturing industry. Rise has made a huge contribution.
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CATIA
CATIA is the flagship product development solution of French company Dassault. As an important part of the PLM collaborative solution, it can help manufacturers design their future products and support the entire industrial design process from the pre-project stage, specific design, analysis, simulation, assembly to maintenance. Its digital prototyping process has been widely adopted in the market since 1999, making it the most commonly used product development system in the world.
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The modular CATIA product range provides product style and appearance design, mechanical design, equipment and systems engineering, managed digital prototypes, machining, analysis and simulation. CATIA products are based on the open and extensible V5 architecture. Whether it is solid modeling or surface modeling, because CATIA provides an intelligent tree structure, users can easily and quickly make repeated modifications to the product, even if major modifications are required in the final stage of design, or the original plan is modified. Updating and upgrading is very easy for CATIA.
CATIA provides complete design capabilities: from product conceptual design to final product formation, its accurate and reliable solutions provide complete 2D, 3D, parametric hybrid modeling and data management methods, from the design of a single part to the final product. The establishment of the final electronic prototype; at the same time, as a fully integrated software system, CATIA organically combines mechanical design, engineering analysis and simulation, CNC machining and CATweb network application solutions to provide users with a strict paperless working environment , especially the dedicated modules in CATIA for the automobile and motorcycle industries.
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CATIA provides convenient solutions that cater to the needs of large, medium and small businesses in all industrial sectors. Including: from large Boeing 747 aircraft, rocket engines to cosmetic packaging boxes, covering almost all manufacturing products. The CATIA family of products provides 3D design and simulation solutions in eight major fields: automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, factory design, construction, power and electronics, consumer goods, and general machinery manufacturing.
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CATIA's competitors include UGNX, Pro/E, Topsolid, and Cimatron. Among them, NX, Pro/E and CATIA can be said to be three-thirds of the world. CATIA currently occupies the largest market share in design and engineering software. This comes from its strong customer base and military industry background. Compared with its competitors, CATIA's advantages lie in its pleasing interface, easy-to-use and powerful functions, strong functional support in specialized industries such as automobiles, aerospace, and shipbuilding, etc., and the global sales cooperation of IT leader IBM.
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Delcam
Delcam is the world's leading professional CAD/CAM software company. Delcam Plc is headquartered in the famous British city of Birmingham and is a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The research and development of Delcam software originated from the world-famous University of Cambridge. After more than 40 years of development, the Delcam software series spans product design, mold design, product processing, mold processing, reverse engineering, art design and engraving processing, and quality inspection.
