White Papers
Accelerating RTV Mold Development in a Rapid Prototyping Environment
This white paper describes a new approach to creating functional, high quality, 3D elastomeric parts for your product prototypes faster and easier than previously possible. This solution utilizes the capabilities of one of the fastest and lowest operating cost 3D printers on the market, the magic of RTV molding and casting, and a time saving new CAD file manipulation tool that cuts hours to days out of the prototyping cycle. Design teams that adopt this approach can accelerate time to market, lower overall prototyping costs, and improve functionality of their products by testing earlier in the development cycle.
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Overcoming the Barriers Imposed by Geometry
“SpaceClaim Empowers CAE Analysts”
CAE analysts often face the burden of poor quality and over-detailed geometric models in preparing finite element meshing for analysis. However, end users of SpaceClaim Engineer testify that the application is making a valued impact to alleviate these barriers. To surmount those problems, a solution must be able to import an extensive range of CAD model formats found in the industry and also support an intuitive user interface that is easy to learn for non-CAD experts. SpaceClaim boasts a positive record in each case in the opinion of their customers. McCormick Stevenson, an engineering services company, finds that SpaceClaim serves as a great arbiter of geometry and boasts, “anything can be imported.”
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Release-to-CAD: The New Milestone Between Engineering & Documenting Products
Increasingly, engineering organizations are distinguishing between concept design and detailed design activities. By creating a Release-to-CAD milestone before committing to detailed design, engineers are fostering innovation, lowering product development costs, getting to market faster, and creating higher quality products. In this white paper, Chad Jackson, President of Lifecycle Insights investigates Release-to-CAD and the technological and cultural shifts that enable it.
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3D Engineering: How 3D Direct Modeling Empowers Conceptual Engineering and Enables Simulation-Driven Product Development
In this white paper, Bruce Jenkins, an industry-leading analyst in engineering, simulation, and manufacturing, explores the results of his extensive research on how leading manufacturers are adopting 3D direct modeling to facilitate concept engineering, ease CAE model preparation, and accelerate time-to-market with simulation-driven product development. He also explores how SpaceClaim’s 3D Direct Modeling technology is leading this trend and empowering engineers to lower costs while enabling innovation.
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Simulation-Driven Product Development: Will Form Finally Follow Function?
This white paper addresses and illustrates why businesses are quickly realizing the impact when preliminary 3D models and up-front simulation drive detailed design in CAD. It also examines how engineers are able to bring competitive products to market more quickly, and with more ease and greater efficiency than before. Learn how they're reducing design times and improving the way they do business.
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The New Competitive Edge: 3D Conceptual Design
This white paper details and illustrates how direct modeling in SpaceClaim provides the freedom and flexibility for engineers to create and edit 3D concept models that drive CAD design. You'll also learn how to accelerate time-to-market, lower development costs, and add value to existing investments in CAD.
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A New Approach to Eliminating Barriers to Collaboration in Multi-CAD Environments
In this paper, you’ll learn a new approach that combines robust data import and export tools with software that easily manipulates the incoming CAD data.
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Achieving CAD Interoperability in Global Product Design Environments
This white paper examines the challenges created by lack of CAD interoperability in the delivery process and takes a prescriptive look at how a CAD-neutral modification system can provide a solution to address interoperability issues.
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3D Rising: Engineers Harnessing the Full Power of 3D
This paper describes how manufacturers are extending the use of 3D design tools so that manufacturing, analysis, and quality engineering can share, use, and refine mechanical designs in digital format.
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Expanding the Use and Benefits of Pro/ENGINEER® Models: Putting CAD Models to work for You
This paper shows how PLM professionals who are not CAD users can evaluate their design ideas and deliver validated change requests to the CAD professional.
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