Digital Prototyping

With Autodesk mechanical solutions you can use digital prototypes to test your designs at every stage of development, from concepts through to manufacturing.

Just think how much time and money you could save if you didn’t have to build and test as many physical prototypes.

So what is Digital Prototyping?

The basic concept of Digital Prototyping is to test a virtual, yet complete product before it’s built.

Digital Prototyping lets you create, optimise and validate an accurate 3D simulation of your product designs. Using a single digital model throughout the design, engineering and manufacturing phases has a big impact on your business.

• Build fewer physical prototypes
• Get to market ahead of the competition
• Develop innovative products
• Minimise the risk of failure
• Improve communication and collaboration
• Reduce design and production costs

Make it right. Then make it real.

How is Digital Prototyping different from 3D design?

3D design is all about looking at the form and fit of product components – and automating the creation of drawings from your model.

Digital prototyping starts with defining form and fitting parts together, but it quickly moves beyond this into assessing:

1. the way things move;
2. whether or not they fail;
3. how components interact with pneumatic and electric subsystems.

Test new concepts

Digital Prototyping lets you explore ideas and test design concepts before anything is built.

Reduce design time

Using digital prototypes helps you get products to market faster with fewer physical prototypes.

Cut production costs

With a digital prototype all your design decisions are based on accurate simulations and analysis, rather than intuition, so you can be sure a solution will work when it goes into production.

Not just for the big guns

You don’t have to build cars, planes or large industrial machinery to use Digital Prototyping to get to market faster with more innovative designs. Autodesk’s flexible solutions can be scaled to suit any business – and any budget. 

Proven success

Autodesk Inventor has enabled Westfield Sportscars to cut the number of physical prototypes to just one or two.

“We use Inventor to build a digital prototype to check for design clashes, and then for more complex analyses such as emissions testing.”

With Digital Prototyping, DEW Engineering and Development Ltd has reduced prototype development time by 50% and improved design visualisation for everyone from customers to employees on the shop floor.

“We’re driving down costs and getting products out quicker than ever.”

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