Autodesk Unveils New Design Suites and Cloud Services for Manufacturers

By DE Editors

Autodesk released its new 3D design and engineering software portfolio for manufacturers, offering a complete set of integrated and interoperable suites and cloud services.

The new Autodesk design suites are geared especially for manufacturers and include Autodesk Product Design Suite and Autodesk Factory Design Suite. The new suites provide a broad range of cloud services to help manufacturers more efficiently design, build and deliver better products faster and at reduced costs.

Autodesks 2013 design suites integrate with Autodesk 360 cloud offerings to better enable collaboration. The suites also offer interoperability with the new 2013 version of Autodesk Vault product data management software and the companys next generation, cloud-based alternative Autodesk PLM 360.

The Product Design and Factory Design suites are available in standard,  premium, and ultimate editions.

New for Autodesk Product Design Suite 2013 are the addition of one-click workflows created to help customers seamlessly move through the engineering design process, advanced cloud-based services for simulation and the inclusion of additional software allowing customers to realize their end-to-end design process.

The Factory Design Suite enhances AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor software with exclusive access to interoperable, layout-specific workflows, new cloud-based factory asset resources and powerful visualization and analysis tools that help increase design accuracy,  efficiency and communication.

Specifically, the one-to-one synchronization between 2D AutoCAD drawings and the 3D Inventor assembly within the suite means changes made in the AutoCAD drawing will propagate to the Inventor 3D layout,  and changes in the 3D layout will propagate back to the original 2D drawing.

The Autodesk Simulation suite includes 2013 version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical, Autodesk Simulation CFD, and Autodesk Simulation Moldflow.

For more information, visit Autodesk.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.