From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
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Understanding design software and web resources
From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
Understanding design software and web resources
There are lots of different methods for prototyping and depending on the method that we chose, we need to design parts correctly for that manufacturing process. It's important to look at the full process and not just the prototypes. It's really the end result that we're looking for and we want to chose a prototyping method that will work well to simulate that final product. In this course I'll be using Solid Works to work with 3D cad models that we'll be eventually prototyping. However there's lots of different software that are available, so let's take a look at a few of these other options. SolidWorks.com is the software I'm using here in the course. There's also a company called PTC, who makes Pro Engineer, which is a very powerful software. And then I've got Autocad Inventor, again a quite popular software. And these first three here, which is Solid Works, Pro Engineer and Inventor, are all solid modeling programs. So these are going to work well for machining, molding, as well as…
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