Autodesk unveils new digital prototyping software for manufacturers

Pune, April 4, 2013: Autodesk Inc today unveiled new Digital Prototyping software that offers manufacturers unprecedented access to the Autodesk portfolio — spanning the desktop and cloud — to more efficiently design, build and deliver better products faster, and at reduced costs.

The Autodesk 2014 Design Suites launched specifically for manufacturers include Autodesk Product Design Suite and Autodesk Factory Design Suite. The comprehensive suites portfolio provides designers and engineers with a complete set of tools and cloud services to simplify design, visualisation and simulation workflows from product development through delivery. Additionally, Autodesk’s 2014 Simulation software portfolio delivers a faster, more accurate and flexible approach to predicting, optimizing and validating designs early in the design process.

“Today’s manufacturers face completely different challenges and influences than a decade or even five years ago. R&D is tasked with both cutting budgets while simultaneously turning out more innovative products—and delivering them faster. Autodesk 2014 Design Suites provide manufacturers with affordable access to the best tools for the task at hand. Among other benefits, they help manufacturers improve productivity significantly and minimize upfront investment, resulting in a faster path to the market as well as return on investments,” said Rajiv Bajaj, Head, Manufacturing solutions, Autodesk India & SAARC.

Autodesk’s 2014 design suites are available in three editions: Standard, Premium and Ultimate.

Suites highlights include:

The debut of Autodesk ReCap, new reality capture software and cloud services that create intelligent 3D models of physical objects and environments and allows customers to bring the actual job site into their design process; Autodesk Inventor software enhancements that incorporate, among other benefits, increased scalability for extremely large product or factory assemblies; and Autodesk Revit interoperability that allows building product manufacturers to easily transform detailed Inventor assemblies into simple native Revit files for use as BIM content. Suite subscribers will continue to have access to Autodesk 360 cloud services that extend desktop functionality to better enable collaboration, optimisation and to promote design sharing and reuse.