CAD

SDRC offers a scalable range of core, solids-based modeling solutions that enable you to match your product development requirements to price point and collaboration level. SDRC's CAD software is a high-performance 3D design system, and its drafting capabilities can be used as a tool for documenting solid models or as a standalone 2D drafting system. The Imageware™ product line includes dynamic surface modification and diagnostic solutions processes, including capabilities for geometry-based building and inspections. Core Master Modeler, also found in all Design Packages, is the prerequisite for most I-DEAS® applications.

Packages: I-DEAS Artisan Package

SDRC offers a scalable range of core; solids- based modeling products that enable you to match the price point and collobration level to your requirements. I-DEAS Artisan Package is entry-level core I-DEAS offering. I-DEAS Artisan Package includes 3D solid modeling, assembly, and drafting. I-DEAS Artisan Package provides a basic I-DEAS Team Data Management™ capability that provides data sharing among small engineering teams.

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I-DEAS Mold Design Package

I-DEAS® Mold Design Package (I-DEAS Artisan™ Base) Provides 2D drafting and 3D solid and advanced high-quality surface design with fully integrated, Core/Cavity design, as well as Mold Base catalogs for D-M-E, Futaba, Hasco, and Strack.

Includes I-DEAS Artisan Package, Surfacing Set, VGX™ Mold Base Design, VGX™ Core/Cavity Design.

Artisan Surfacing Package
This package contains everything you need to develop 2D drafting, 3D solids and high-quality surface models. The I-DEAS® Artisan™ Package includes 3D solid modeling, assembly, drafting and basic team data management. The surfacing Set allows quick and easy design, and interactive modification of complex sculptured surface parts using a procedural approach.

VGX™ Mold Design Bundle

This package contains everything you need to add mold design capabilities to your existing I-DEAS® installation. VGX™ Mold Base Design automates the creation of solid assemblies of molds starting with standard or customized mold bases and components, resulting in significant reduction in time required to design molds. Available standard catalogs include: D-M-E, Hasco, Futaba, and Strack. VGX™ Core/Cavity Design provides specialized tools to support mold design work. These tools can significantly reduce cycle time for the mold designer.

VGX Core\Cavity & VGX Mold Base Design

Surfacing Set

I-DEAS® Master Surfacing™ is the advanced surface modeling complement to I-DEAS Master Modeler™. It helps you quickly and easily design and iteratively modify complex sculptured surface parts. I-DEAS Master Surfacing provides a rich set of curve and surface creation tools for lofting, sweeping, and blending surfaces, giving you excellent local and overall control of surface shape. Not only can you create your shape, but you can also easily make design changes because relationships between geometry entities, such as surface tangencies, are maintained throughout the design effort. Advanced fairing operations help you remove bulges and achieve excellent local shape control of free-form surfaces.

Prerequisites : I-DEAS Artisan™ Package

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I-DEAS Sheet Metal

Using the variational solid modeling capabilities of I-DEAS® Master Modeler™, I-DEAS Sheet Metal Design™ automatically incorporates user-definable bend tables, stress reliefs, and shrinkage allowance into solid models to help you rapidly design and evaluate sheet metal parts. A catalog of sheet metal features including punches, tabs, and other features allows you to add final detail to the part to capture true design intent. The solid sheet metal model can be unfolded and used to create fully associative flat pattern production drawings, and numerical control (NC) tool paths for manufacturing. The ability to fully integrate the design, documentation, and manufacturing into one design database greatly reduces the sheet metal design process.

Prerequisites : I-DEAS Artisan™ Package

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VGX™ Core/Cavity Design [A182]

Molds require a great deal of specialized design work in order to produce the various core and cavity components that make up the finished molding surfaces. VGX™ Core/Cavity Design Provides specialized tool to support this type of design work. These tools can significantly reduce cycle time for the mold designer.

Prerequisites : I-DEAS Artisan™ Package

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VGX™ Mold Base Design

Molds are complex mechanical assemblies, with many components interacting with each other. Historically, these mold assemblies are created using 2D drafting packages, which is labor intensive and creates opportunity for error. VGX™ Mold Base Design automates the creation of solid assemblies of molds starting with standard or customized mold bases and components, resulting in significant reductions in the time required to design molds.

Available standard catalogs include:

Prerequisites : I-DEAS Artisan™ Package

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I-DEAS Mechanism Design

I-DEAS® Mechanism Design™ is an integrated capability for simulating complex motion of articulated mechanisms. Using assemblies created in I-DEAS Master Assembly™ software, joint constraints, contact locations, and connectivity information are created, and motion inputs are applied. By using the embedded ADAMS dynamic solver, it helps you understand, from the earliest stages of conceptual design, the motions, velocities, and accelerations of a mechanism. And, it allows you to study more design alternatives. The result is a better, more refined product design.

Prerequisites : I-DEAS Artisan™ Package

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