Fusion

• Design and communicate your solution
• Engineer and simulate your designs (Nastran, Generative design, Tolerance analysis)
• Visualize your designs (Rendered images/CGI/VR)
• Create manufacturing data (BOM, Drawings, Nesting + CAM)
• Worldwide access to CADLearning content for unlimited users via web, mobile and CADLearning plugin
• Build custom playlists based on quiz and search results
• Unlimited storage for custom learning content
• Reporting and Analytics
• Detailed user activity reports for video views and assessment attempts
• Admin dashboards and automated reports
• Data feeds for existing client reporting platforms and tools (ERP, Tableau, Domo etc.)
• Two one-hour administrator training sessions, Portal Administration Overview: includes user management, customizing your learning environment and reporting
• Advanced Portal Administration: includes content reconfiguration, custom content, and advanced reporting
• First-class support for administrators and users via support.cadlearning.com
• Monthly end-user basics webinars
• CADLearning User Engagement: toolkit to help build awareness and grow usage of your CADLearning portal

• Static Stress -Inspect a range of load conditions and the resultant stress, strain, and deformation results analyzed to determine the likelihood of failure of the design.
• Modal Frequencies – Inspect the effects of natural free-vibration on your part or assembly to help you fine-tune your design.
• Thermal Steady State -Trace heat transfer across your part or assembly to understand if your part may fail based on the maximum critical temperature of a component.
• Thermal Stress -Simulate temperature-induced stresses caused by temperature gradients in the model and varying thermal expansion characteristics of the materials.
• Shape Optimization – Achieve light weight design goals by identifying material can be removed from your design, while still achieving allowable stress and displacement objectives.
• Nonlinear Static Stress – Explore large deformation, motion, contact and load changes, and nonlinear material behavior during an event or an incremental change in loads.
• Event Simulation – Predict how time-dependent forces influence design performance.
• Structural Buckling – Determine the critical buckling multiplier and modal buckling shape from a compression load applied to your structural component to develop a support or stiffening structure to prevent structure failure due to buckling.
• Injection Molding Simulation – Identify how your part design influences part manufacturability and part quality for plastic injection molded parts through guided results to get an aesthetically acceptable part that will perform as intended.

• Multi-Objective Design Exploration – AI-powered algorithms produce multiple design iterations optimized tom meet your design objectives, including functional, physical, performance, and chosen manufacturing method, automatically using a single problem definition. Easily designate specific design objectives, including functional, physical, manufacturing method, and performance factors, for AI-powered algorithms to automatically generate various design iterations with a single solve.
• Manufacturing aware – Influence designs through manufacturing process considerations. Supported processes include additive manufacturing, 3 & 5 axis milling, 2.5 axis milling, 2 axis cutting, and die casting.
• Edit-able CAD Design Results -Generative design outcome geometry is automatically reconstructed to produce native CAD features, fostering easy refinement capabilities for finalizing product designs.
• Manufacturing Cost Insights – Effortlessly visualize and filter through manufacturing costs by comparing materials, part designs, part volumes, performance criteria, and manufacturing methods, to identify the “just right” design.

Parts:

• Single document – Arrange multiple parts together inside the current (single) document.
• Multiple documents – Nest multiple parts together from multiple different document sources.

Nesting:

• Basic arrange – Single-sheet nesting. Arrange multiple objects on a sketch/plane/face.
• Associative updates -Automatically update nests in the event of a design change to any of the nested objects.
• Nest preparation – Access additional settings to control how individual design items are nested (with options to include/ignore elements).

• • Advanced arrange* & advanced nesting – Multi-sheet nesting of selected objects. Advanced nesting also provides automatic material, thickness, and quantity detection.
  • Advanced part & material controls – Define and override parameters including part quanity, orientation, grain alignment, allowed rotations, cost, and more.
  • Process material library – Improve collaboration across your team by building a cloud-based library of sheet stock with commonly used sizes and prices.
  • Nest reports – Create custom HTML reports that can be saved and shared in PDF format.
  • Nest comparison – Quickly compare nest studies, nests, and sheets with varying parameters to assist with raw material purchasing, quoting, and estimating.
  • Part labels – Automatically generate custom part labels that can be affixed to cut parts for easier off-loading and/or tracking.

Manufacture Aware Tools

Plastic Product Design Tools – Define plastic features at the model level or at the assembly level for an optimal approach in maintaining the fit, performance, and aesthetics of your design.

Plastic Product Design Rules  – Choose from a list of materials that drive the fundamental parameters of your plastic part design, enabling you to focus more time on your design ideas.

Design Advice  – Receive guidance and awareness based on industry best practices and company standards to improve the manufacturability and performance of your design.

3D Modelling

Parametric Modeling  – Create history-based features, including extrude, revolve, loft, sweep, etc., that are driven by dimensions and constraints.

Surface Modeling  – Create and edit complex parametric surfaces for repairing or designing geometry.

Freeform Modeling – Create complex sub-divisional surfaces with T-splines and edit them with intuitive push-pull gestures.

Direct Modeling  – Edit or repair imported geometry from non-native file formats. Make design changes without worrying about time-based features.

Mesh Modeling  – Edit and repair imported scans or mesh models, including STL and OBJ files.

Sheet Metal – Design sheet metal components, document flat patterns, and manufacture your design with cutting strategies for water jet, laser and plasma machines.

3D Patterning –  Create duplicate faces, features, bodies, or components and arrange them as a rectangular or circular array, or along a specified path.

Geometric Pattern – Apply highly customizable geometric patterns with user-defined or pre-defined objects.

Boss Feature – Create a boss connecting two parts to each other using manufacturing aware tools that are available in Product Design Extension only.

Web Feature – Automate web and rib features from open sketches using manufacturing aware tools that are available in the Product Design Extension only.

Snap Fit  – Create multiple parametric snap fit features to fasten bodies or components together.

Manufacture Aware Tools

Plastic Product Design Tools – Define plastic features at the model level or at the assembly level for an optimal approach in maintaining the fit, performance, and aesthetics of your design.

Plastic Product Design Rules  – Choose from a list of materials that drive the fundamental parameters of your plastic part design, enabling you to focus more time on your design ideas.

Design Advice  – Receive guidance and awareness based on industry best practices and company standards to improve the manufacturability and performance of your design.

• Version control

Prepare your model for nesting. Set nesting parameters per material for optimal stock usage.

• Cloud storage

Access your data anywhere. Continue working when not connected to the internet using offline mode.

• Administrative tools

Grant rights to stakeholders inside or outside of your organization with advanced administration tools.

• Commenting and redlining

Capture and share feedback from any device, directly on the design using comments, redlines, and markups.

• User management

Control how users interact with your project data. Manage who your internal and external stakeholders are.