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Accelerate your product design and manufacturing processes

Overview

What is the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection?

The collection is an integrated set of professional-grade applications that connect everyone, from concept to production, with shared tools to streamline your product development process.
Create high-performing product designs and production system layouts
Extend product capabilities and prevent product failures
Connect your team and your data from design to manufacture

Overview

What is the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection?

Overview

What you can do with the collection

See how the collection gives you the power to create your most ambitious ideas, collaborate more efficiently, automate busywork, and explore more design options than ever before.
Create complete product designs
Explore every design opportunity
Connect your work and your people
Automate routine tasks

Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

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How the collection helps your business

Increase win rates and deliver faster
With a connected and automated toolset, quickly configure and deliver products to customer spec.
Promote sustainability
Develop products and processes that optimize material use and minimize waste.
Improve product quality
Use advanced simulation to validate and optimize products and manufacturing processes.
Expand product capabilities
Explore new possibilities to improve performance using the machines you already own.

Save as much as $3,835 on top products

With the collection, you get these top products + 6 collection-exclusive applications for advanced simulation, tolerance stackup analysis, CAM, and more.

Top design products included

AutoCAD

2D and 3D CAD software with industry-specific toolsets.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Navisworks Manage

Large-scale design review software with clash detection and scheduling.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Inventor Tolerance Analysis

Tolerance stackup analysis software for evaluating the impact of dimensional variation.

Inventor Nesting

True shape nesting software for Inventor to optimize yield from raw material.

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor.

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Create

Quickly create complete product models

From a single part to massive assemblies, intuitively model and document your products with professional-grade 3D parametric design capabilities and 2D drafting toolsets.

AutoCAD

2D and 3D CAD software with industry-specific toolsets.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Highly efficient production lines start here

Conceptualize production line layouts using familiar 2D workflows that can be automatically converted into detailed 3D models, helping inform critical design decisions.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

AutoCAD

2D and 3D CAD software with industry-specific toolsets.

Factory Design Utilities

Factory design software to plan, design, and install an efficient production layout.

Introduction to the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

See how powerful CAD, CAM, and CAE tools come together in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. Join our technical experts as they guide you through some popular use cases.

Communicate your idea with stunning visualizations

Clearly convey your design with high-fidelity imagery and animations generated directly from your 3D model for use in design reviews, documentation, and sales and marketing collateral.

3ds Max

3D rendering and animation software for design visualization.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Navisworks Manage

Large-scale design review software with clash detection and scheduling.

Streamline the move to manufacturing

Create efficient processes that help you seamlessly transition from design to manufacturing with integrated tools for generating multi-axis toolpaths and sheet metal nests.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor.

Inventor Nesting

True shape nesting software for Inventor to optimize yield from raw material.

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Explore

Consider all design alternatives

Generative design capabilities let you create multiple, production-ready design options, and review tradeoffs in materials, performance, cost, and manufacturing processes.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Push the boundaries for better products

Extend product capabilities, improve efficiency, and prevent failures with advanced performance simulation built on the Autodesk Nastran solver.

Inventor Nastran

CAD-embedded software for non-linear stress, thermal, vibration, and fatigue simulation.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Introduction to generative design

Generative design technology is available to any user of the collection. Learn how you can solve complete design and engineering challenges in hours—not days or weeks.

Evaluate factory projects before you build

Remove bottlenecks in the process with discrete-event simulation capabilities, and in the installation using clash detection between the as-is state and proposed production line designs.

Factory Design Utilities

Factory design software to plan, design, and install an efficient production layout.

ReCap Pro

Reality capture and 3D scanning software and services.

Evaluate the cost of dimensional variation

Balance mechanical fit and performance with the cost of tighter tolerances based on an analysis of the cumulative dimensional variation between mating geometry.

Inventor Tolerance Analysis

Tolerance stackup analysis software for evaluating the impact of dimensional variation.

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Connect

Connect your 2D and 3D design tasks

Combine the capabilities of 2D and 3D CAD to integrate electromechanical models, conceptualize designs, and speed up the creation of drawings and documentation.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

AutoCAD

2D and 3D CAD software with industry-specific toolsets.

Manage all that data in less time

Control your intellectual property in a single location, making it easy to collaborate with your colleagues. Securely share data externally to simplify and speed-up review cycles.

Vault

Product data management software to manage design files and track revisions.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Best practices for large-scale design projects

See how the collection can help bring all of your 2D and 3D data from multiple disciplines, as well as point cloud data, into one complete model.

Speak the many dialects of CAD and BIM

Reference models created in other CAD or BIM applications that update anytime the original files are changed. Prepare BIM objects of your product models for delivery to your clients.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Collaborate effectively on large scale design projects

Aggregate design data from multiple sources to perform reviews of large scale designs. Check for clashes, simulate installation, and centralize communication between stakeholders.

Navisworks Manage

Large-scale design review software with clash detection and scheduling.

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Automate

Custom configuration to customer specifications

Create a custom product configurator using a powerful, simple-to-use automation engine that captures engineering knowledge, preserving your time for value-added projects.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Make compliance automatic for the team

Automate templates for parts, assemblies, and drawings to reduce errors, save time, and make it easy to follow company standards.

Inventor

Professional-grade tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, and documentation.

Save time on custom product configuration

Manually modifying designs to meet customer specifications can drain engineering resources. Watch this webinar to learn how you can setup a product configurator and extend it to your sales team.

Accelerate design validation and manufacturing

Speed up downstream processes by automating routine tasks involved in simulation setup in Inventor Nastran and toolpath strategies in Inventor CAM.

Inventor Nastran

CAD-embedded software for non-linear stress, thermal, vibration, and fatigue simulation.

Inventor CAM

Integrated 2.5- to 5-axis CAD/CAM programming solution for Inventor.

Automate true-shape nesting

Generate multiple sheet nests to reduce raw material waste, and produce comparison reports to review overall efficiency, total cost, and machining time.

Fusion 360

Cloud-based CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and manufacturing.

Inventor Nesting

True shape nesting software for Inventor to optimize yield from raw material.
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