CAD Engineering Software

CAD engineering software systems are designed and developed for use in different engineering streams such as mechanical, electrical, electronics, industrial, and architecture. They help engineering system designers to create virtual designs or blueprint of different kinds of machine systems and test their functionality with the help of advanced simulation tools.

Entry-level commercial engineering software has parametric and feature based 3D or 2D modeler that is easy to use and install. The software Alibre design does not have Shelling and Booleans and the assembly is limited to twenty-five components. However, the software does allow users to save the created models and share it with other personnel.

High-end engineering software uses fully functional solid modeling 3D CAD system with 2D drafting capabilities as well. It allows system designers to give an appropriate shape to an object?s surface primarily for products and vehicles that require sculpted and free form surfaces. The software has an entire set of surface creation tools such as curves network, n-side, blending, fillet, surface intersections, automatic Boolean operations, interactive trimming of surfaces, rebuild of curves and surfaces and many others. It allows users to alter design dimensions using sliders to see the resulting changes in real-time. It supports different CAD file formats such as DWG, LISP, ADS, and other formats commonly used in industries.

The software allows users to design printed circuit boards (PCBs) and create CAM files as well. The software can be used for electronic design automation for handling different forms of circuit design such as custom IC layout, schematic capture including analog and digital, Textual Languages such as VHDL and Verilog, Electro-mechanical hybrid layout, and Programmable logic (FPGAs).

The software is capable of creating different types of product design based on a single blueprint. This enables users to experiment with different types of models and select a particular design that best suits the needs of the organization.