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The creative freedom to efficiently optimize products
Using DESIGNER, efficiently transform your design modelling processes and create manufacturing-friendly designs. Equipped with a suite of simple-yet-sophisticated modelling tools, every aspect of your designs can be optimized to create manufacturable models.
Benefits And Features
Utilize DESIGNER’s powerful and versatile suite of features
2D to 3D
Quickly convert 2D drawings into fully manufacturable 3D CAD models, ready for machining.
3D to 2D
Create 2D engineering drawings of CAD components and assemblies to eliminate shop floor mistakes.
Recreate
Create digitised 3D CAD models from physical parts which you don't have the original drawings for. DESIGNER's dedicated suite of reverse engineering tools make light work of recreating CAD models of physical parts.
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The creative freedom to efficiently optimize products
Using DESIGNER, efficiently transform your design modelling processes and create manufacturing-friendly designs. Equipped with a suite of simple-yet-sophisticated modelling tools, every aspect of your designs can be optimized to create manufacturable models.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The system requirements for DESIGNER can be found here.
There are 11 "Getting Started" Tutorials and these can be accessed via the website or from within DESIGNER > Help. The files used can be downloaded from here.
Use the “Move faces” command to modify the size of an existing Extrusion as demonstrated here.
The file types and versions that DESIGNER supports are detailed here.
DESIGNER's automation capabilities allow the user to create a customized solution and a data-driven workflow.