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Expert NetCAD Solutions, INDIA
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Every ‘Engineering’ industry uses design tools for product design, tool design & manufacturing. It
is now vastly noticeable that industries that are progressive use 3D-modeling tools for achieving
maximum design productivity. Solid-Edge 3D modeling software, offers maximum productive
design solutions to its users.
Industries which have vast ‘Knowledge Banks’ in terms of design rules and procedures can now
make use of Knowledge Based Engineering to further multiply productivity by ‘documenting’ these
rules and using them to ‘automate’ their design procedures.
This is done by customizing Solid-Edge.
Customization is the modification of the general utility into a specialized, tailor-made utility, which
takes care of routine and repetitive operations making them simpler by designing in an automated
manner. Industries involved in repetitive product designs invariably benefit form customizing their
routine design load by automating their design function.
Solid-Edge is windows native software and can be customized by using common programs such
as Microsoft Excel. Further software program can be developed to handshake with Solid Edge
though simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) tools such as Visual Basic, Visual C / C++ or webbased
tools such as ASP or Visual Basic .net. These tools form the graphical ‘front end’ for the
user to interact with the rules and data which is seated in the ‘back-end’ of this customized
software. The customized application can run on network, in a multi-user environment. The back
end tools that house the data / rules for the software to ‘configure’ the products can be SQL,
Oracle or MS Access.
Why Customize?
Customization of CAD gives you the following benefits –
• Faster Designs
• Faster lead times
• Improved coordination between sales and engineering functions
• Accurate designs adhering to standards
• Consistent designs
• Improved product quality
• Ease of use, allowing lowly skilled manpower to handle design load
• Flexibility in manpower recruitment.
• Avoids unnecessary rejections on the shop floor
Components of a ‘Customized’ software
Solid-Edge plays the pivotal role in the customized application. The customization is formed by
some or all of the following –
• Graphical User Interface
• Database harboring rules and design data
• Bills of materials
• Library of models
• Commercial information with calculation centers
Expert advantage
Custom solutions on Solid-Edge from Expert NetCAD as a total package from System study to the
Implementation & User Training come from a team of Solid-Edge engineers and software
programmers who have shop floor industrial training ranging from Tool room practices to
manufacturing in a process plant. This facilitates complete understanding of the custom
requirement resulting in a realistic and practicable solution.