Sheet Advisor



Sheet Advisor Technology

CoCreate's Advisor Technology reduces the number of modification cycles required in the design process, while improving product quality. The technology is actually a tight integration of application-specific knowledge contained in CoCreate's CAD systems. It brings the expertise of downstream processes right to designers' fingertips for on-line guidance.

The information provided for users early in the design process includes design for manufacturability and reliability data. Application-specific functionality based on industry standard practices and company-specific information is also included. This expertise will help you create better, higher quality and more cost-effective products faster.

Advisor Technology features SheetAdvisor, a comprehensive productivity package that addresses the needs of companies that design and manufacture sheet metalparts. Building on the benefits of solid modeling, SheetAdvisor brings clear productivity and quality gains to design and manufacturing environments. Key benefits include: higher productivity, improved communication between manufacturing and design teams, early cost comparisons, fewer prototype cycles and reduced parts costs.

With SheetAdvisor, designers create only parts that are to be made by a specific shop's machinery. An initial selection of manufacturing sites ensures that all checks during the design process are based on the chosen material and tooling at the chosen sites. Customized rule sets can be created for each shop. Features created on the model can be subsequently repositioned or deleted using the comprehensive SolidDesigner dynamic modeling capabilities.

A Design for Manufacturability (DFM) feature lets users quickly and accurately design sheet metal parts ready for manufacturing by giving on-line guidance during the initial design stage and warning about manufacturing rule violations. This leads to a significant increase in ready-to-manufacture products without design correction cycles. DFM checking includes minimum distance checks, conformance checks and topological checks.

Additional features include a technology database and cost estimation capabilities. SheetAdvisor is supported on all SolidDesigner platforms.

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