Good engineers continually ask “what if?” Now answers to those queries are easier to find, even without a PhD and a white lab coat. With 3D CAD, interference checking is automatic, and you can also put your models in motion to check for collisions between parts.
Want to see how components in an assembly will move and interact with one another once assembled to check for interferences or collisions? Finding interferences in 2D drawings is time-consuming and difficult, even for the most eagle-eyed checkers. Thanks to design associativity, every change is automatically propagated throughout the assembly, wherever that part is used, speeding up design changes and reducing your risk of errors. With 3D CAD, there are no manual updates in multiple drawing views every time a change is required. Let’s face it design changes are a part of everyday reality for design engineers. Using 3D visualizations or animations of concept designs helps non-technical folks quickly understand complex designs so you can get sign-offs faster. One of the early hurdles in product development is getting the necessary approvals from management and/or customers to get started.
Not convinced? Let’s break it down for you and take a look at 9 things you can’t do with your existing 2D CAD tools. Perhaps most importantly, however, is that adopting 3D CAD will afford you more time to do what you became an engineer to do: design and innovate. With touted benefits that include shorter design cycles, streamlined manufacturing processes, improved communications and faster product rollouts, investing the time upfront to learn 3D will deliver big downstream benefits. By sticking with 2D CAD, you’re missing out on a wealth of advanced tools that will not only help you design better products faster but can give your organization a leg up over its competitors. The reality, however, is that you could be doing things better, faster, and in the long run, cheaper than you could ever do with your 2D design tools. Over the years, you’ve become very proficient with these tools, so why transition to 3D CAD tools and deal with a potentially long learning curve and resulting downtime required to become as productive on a whole new set of tools? After all, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” right?
You’re quite comfortable with your 2D design tools.
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