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Digital Prototyping Workflow Overview
Digital Prototyping gives manufacturers the ability to virtually explore a complete product before it is built—so they can create, validate, optimize, and manage designs from the conceptual design phase through the manufacturing phase of the product development process. By using a digital prototype, manufacturers can boost design efficiency and innovation by visualizing and simulating the real-world performance of a design, and save time and money by reducing the number of physical prototypes they build.
The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, allowing a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits of Digital Prototyping with minimal disruption to existing workflows, and providing the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model.
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Introduction
The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping is attainable, scalable, cost-effective, and easy to deploy and integrate into existing processes with minimal disruption to productive workflows. All phases of product development align together in a connected digital environment from conceptual design and engineering to manufacturing and the end-customer.
Conceptual Design
Designers work on a single digital model from the first sketch, with the ability to share data with engineering teams using a common file format. This easy interoperability allows designers and engineers to collaborate more effectively than ever before—working together to create and validate the digital prototype.
Engineering
Autodesk® Inventor® software helps engineers establish a workflow driven by functional design, where they can easily build digital prototypes, and then use integrated engineering calculations to validate the design. With a digital model, engineers can optimize their designs, conduct stress analysis tests, assess motion problems, catch errors, and improve product quality—all before a physical prototype is built.
Data Management
Managing product design data with Autodesk’s data management tools drives better decisions in the design and manufacturing processes and connects design teams as they create the digital prototype. Automating engineering change and release processes increases the ability to leverage standard design processes, while better enabling collaboration between design, manufacturing, and the supply chain.
Summary
Autodesk’s best-in-class solution for Digital Prototyping is easy to use, easy to implement, and is now within reach of mainstream manufacturers.