Category: CAD

New and Enhanced: AutoCAD 2020

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AutoCAD 2020 comes with new features that bring your visions to life with best drafting and designing techniques. The AutoCAD subscription comes with specialized toolsets that enable the user to gain access to the industry-specific methods. The innovative features of AutoCAD 2020 provide you the flexibility to access the AutoCAD web and mobile apps. Some of the intriguing features of the latest AutoCAD 2020 are the dark theme for clear visuals, quick display for measurement, improved performance, block palette, and much more.

Dark Theme

AutoCAD 2020 now comes with a dark and fresh look to ease your eyes. The crisp and clean modern structure is designed to provide users a clear vision with sharper icons and contrast improvements.

High Performance

The system continues to provide high performing and a powerful engine to speed up work. Not more than half a second is required to save work each time. AutoCAD users have said that they have saved a lot of time due to its quick response time. A new special feature of AutoCAD has enabled the new generation saving approximately 80 working years collectively. Moreover, the installation time is 50 percent faster which is like a bonus!

Quick Display Measurements

Measuring distances have now become easy with the fresh AutoCAD Quick Measure Tool.

  • Measure 2D designs by just hovering over it
  • Hover your mouse between objects to see dimensions, angles, and distances
  • Site plans, elevations, and floor plans can be seen constantly

Block Palette

You can efficiently insert blocks with the block palette that comes with visual galleries. The feature also helps to find the exact block you are looking for. You can also drag and drop blocks effortlessly from the current drawing to the original drawing or any other drawing tabs. Searching and fixing numerous blocks or recently opened blocks is now easier with the feature of Repeat Placement for saving steps.

Clean Drawings Easily with Purge

The newly redesigned Purge feature is introduced to clean drawings in one go. It helps to get rid of unwanted objects easily and check the removed item with a visual preview section.

AutoCAD Integrates with Box and Microsoft

With the integration of AutoCAD with Microsoft and Box, you can store files or data in OneDrive or Box to get the advantage of streamlined workflows. The concept has paved the way for effortless workflows and enhanced productivity. It reduces collaboration time that benefits in viewing and editing files easily. The AutoCAD subscribers get the liberty of accessing the files anytime, anywhere.

What’s New in CATIA R2019x

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CATIA R2019X have become a powerful tool for surface modeling across automobile and aircraft industries. The tool allows designers to create compelling visual products using the 3D virtual reality. It provides a lean and intuitive environment to carry out all design and engineering activities. Have a look at some of the exciting features of CATIA R2019x latest release.

New Immersive Design Experience

The immersive virtual reality integrated into CATIA is now extended in R2019x to Virtual Reality. The feature helps teams to experience the product in real time. It also allows designers to communicate their creativity transforming 2D ideas into 3D models.

Product Experience Presenter

The feature helps to create compelling visual products in 3D for more professional and effective styling presentations. The presenter gives power to the designers to create detailed design explorations and reviews.  

ICEM Design Experience

The tool introduced ICEM Design Experience application, which is a surface modeling app used for Computer Aided Styling and Class A surface modelers. The application has a highly interactive and innovative user experience to increase the levels of productivity and collaboration.

Function Driven Generative Design

The feature helps even the design beginners to generate optimized conceptual assemblies and parts from the functional specifications. The advanced version needs just a button press to run simulations and create highly optimized, smooth, and regular product surfaces. The feature also has some new controls to make changes in the designs of the optimized parts.  

Cyber Systems Engineering

The feature provides digital continuity to validate, design, and experience mechanical, electronic and software systems. Cyber systems engineering has also introduced a new role Virtual Systems Experience Designer which helps in the integration of 3D party FMI. The feature gives a better understanding of the realistic behavior of the entire system.

Some other features of CATIA R2019x:

  • System engineers can now work with multiple enhancements and across additional roles. The new version of the tool makes their job easier and highly productive.
  • The unconstrained creativity in its new version of the 3D Generative innovator combines the graphical visual scripting and interactive 3D modeling which can be used anytime.
  • The improved visual scripting feature allows the creative people in the field of Design/ Styling, Architecture, and engineering to quickly design and explore complex shapes and patterns.

The new version of CATIA R2019x makes the product designs easy to navigate and track. Also, these enhancements will help designers to improve their design, engineering and system process.

Creative Engineering Camp 2019

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For 7-12 grade students

Want to make this summer vacation useful for your child? We have planned something exciting to help you with that.

Well, it’s the Creative Engineering Camp. You must be wondering how Engineering Camp will be helpful for kids? It might sound absurd that 7-12 years old children will learn engineering concepts, but trust us, it will be an excellent learning experience for your kid. CADD Centre is organizing this summer camp, and we ensure you, your child will fall in love with engineering after this. See what this camp has in stores for your child.

Engineering and Children

The camp will eliminate the significant misconceptions that children have about engineering and will let know how much exciting engineering is.

  • Engineering is both scientific and creative application.
  • Gives you the vision to see things from a new perspective.

Summer Camp Topics

The major topics that will be covered under this camp are:

· Plan CAD Next

Using AutoCAD, your child will learn to create innovative and impressive 3D drawings with a click of a mouse.

· Max 4 Animation

This exciting topic will teach the basics of animation, modeling, environment and more. Children will get hands-on training on 3DS Max.

· Max 4 Visualization

This topic will train students about textures, light, and materials required to make a wonderful product.

· Creative Modeler

This topic will help children to develop an understanding of the idea of modeling, geometries, and drawings that will enhance their designing skills.

· Creative Designer

This topic will help children to understand the process of designing using the SketchUp tool.

· 3D Printing

This topic will provide children necessary training, materials, and platform to develop a simple product.

· Jr. Designer

In this topic children will learn fun things like product modeling, real-time presentation, quick design, and animation, all under a single program.

· Jr. Professional

This is a professional certification course which aims at providing a comprehensive knowledge about designing processes and skills on the single program.

What do Parents you need to do?

Select a camp topic/course that you think is best suitable for your child and register him/her under it. At the end of the camp, the child will have to take an online exam, after that he/she will be awarded a certificate from CADD Centre, once the child clears the exam.

So, to all the parents out there, don’t wait. Register soon. Enrollments start from 1st March 19, give your child a place to explore new things.

NOW ANSYS 19.2 WITH FASTEST CFD, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND MANY MORE

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ANSYS a company which develops, markets, and supports engineering replication software used to forecast how product designs will act in real-world environment. Engineering simulation is their sole focus. Their latest release of ANSYS 19.2 software has updated tools that will support autonomous vehicles designing, additive manufacturing, optics and assembly. Some of the important features of ANSYS 19.2 are:

Automotive System

ANSYS 19.2 introduced the ANSYS VRXPERIENCE, which permits operators to fully and realistically simulate independent vehicles using real-world customizable conditions.

Increased Use of Optics

ANSYS 19.2 contains a capital of general optical imitation tools, such as ANSYS SPEOS which is one solution for imitation of optics and optoelectronics. These new tools permit imitation of lighting, interior and exterior lighting, cameras and LiDARs, and delivers designers with the ability to assess optical performance while reducing expansion time and costs.

Digital Twins Bug

New capabilities of ANSYS 19.2 make it easier to shape, authenticate and organize digital twins more quickly. Now, users can create images of 3D fields of static ROMs (Reduced Order Modeling) and view simulation results, such as speed and flow rate, on the 3D geometry of the twin.

Preservative Manufacturing

ANSYS 19.2 continues to deliver the Additive Suite and Additive Print tools for imagining 3D printing processes. It also offers a beta version of Additive Science. This technology allows operators to simulate the micro structure and advance insight into the properties of the final published part.

Computerized Fluid Dynamics

In the fluids suite, ANSYS 19.2 delivers new features to accelerate CFD simulations for boosting productivity. It works on the basis of Mosaic meshing technology.

Discover Live Updates

This feature gives a boost to its abilities by allowing users to account for the angular speed of rotating components in a fluid simulation. This is especially useful for understanding the result of wheel rotation on a vehicle and detecting real-world trends in virtual designs.

Physical Simulations

The new Material Designer feature can make full models of fiber-filled, woven or lattice resources, and then calculate equivalent belongings for use in larger-scale imitations. In topology optimization, ANSYS 19.2 has extra loading options, manufacturing restraints that are perfect for preservative manufacturing, and a sole lattice optimization capability.

Overall, the features mentioned above shows some additional features incorporated in ANSYS 19.2. Precisely, these additional features would improve the productivity of ANSYS and would enhance the overall user experience.

Why Should Every Engineer Learn Machining?

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Engineers and machinists often work together on a single project across the manufacturing industries. An open communication and awareness about their respective work methods can do wonders. On the other hand, a breakdown in their communication can be disastrous for a project. These two groups are dependent on each other as they work together. Therefore, it can be highly beneficial for the engineers to learn some machining basics:

  • Learning about machining helps them to look at the world from both perspectives.
  • There will be a better understanding among both groups about the technical details.
  • Knowing the design details about the machine will enhance the engineer’s imagination towards its operation.
  • It will help to adopt better design principles.

From a designer’s point of view, it is essential to push their limits beyond imagination. Being an engineer and a machinist will help in knowing what can be done and how will it be done. As a result, it will increase the overall efficiency.