Industries: Automotive

Do you need to find ways to reduce costs in today’s challenging market?

The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping provides Automotive manufacturers with cost-effective and interoperable tools that enable products and processes to be designed, simulated and visualised early in the design process, reducing errors and the cost and waste associated with physical prototypes.

Industry Challenges:

1. Design Leadership

   Challenge: You need to collaborate up front with your OEM customers to develop the visually appealing, brand-aligned designs that consumers want.

   Solution: Autodesk provides industry-leading design solutions for conceptual design and modelling, visualisation and technical surfacing. These tools let your designers work closely with engineers and collaborate up front with your customers on a single digital model—so you can effectively balance aesthetic and functional requirements in your designs. Learn more about how Autodesk software supports every aspect of your conceptual design process—from developing initial sketches to 3D concept models.

2. Product Complexity

   Challenge: Consumers expect vehicles to be more sophisticated than ever. To fulfil their expectations for product function, you must be able to handle increasing levels of mechatronic content—in the midst of faster product development cycles.

   Solution: Autodesk takes a holistic approach to product design, known as Digital Prototyping. The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping consists of a complete set of the integrated, interoperable design applications you need to simultaneously develop and engineer complex designs across multi-disciplinary teams using a single digital model.

3. Technology Innovation

   Challenge: You need to incorporate new materials, products and manufacturing technology to reduce costs, improve efficiency and speed time-to-market—while ensuring product reliability.

   Solution: Autodesk provides flexible, cost-effective tools that help your design, engineering and manufacturing teams innovate and validate products, incorporate new materials easily and optimise your production operations. As a result, you can design and deliver innovative products to market faster.

4. Marketing Development

   Challenge: You need to develop effective marketing materials for your customers despite limited product availability and constrained budgets.

   Solution: Autodesk provides industry-leading solutions for digital content creation. You can create stunning realistic visualisation directly from the finished digital prototype and deliver high-quality images and animations for client presentations and marketing materials.

Some of the products available within the Digital Prototyping Solution:

		Autodesk Alias Autodesk® AliasTM software offers a complete set of tools for the creative design process. It helps automotive designers work digitally—from initial sketches through 3D concept models—and share models with engineering using a common file format.
		Autodesk Inventor The foundation for Digital Prototyping, Autodesk® InventorTM software helps automotive suppliers optimise designs in an easy-to-use, integrated visualisation, simulation and analysis environment.
		AutoCAD Electrical AutoCAD® Electrical software is AutoCAD® for controls designers. It delivers the specialised tools that automotive suppliers need to create and modify electrical control designs quickly and accurately—and with significant cost savings.
		AutoCAD Mechanical AutoCAD® Mechanical is AutoCAD for manufacturing. AutoCAD Mechanical® software provides 2D design and drafting capabilities to automotive suppliers, with specific tools for almost every aspect of mechanical design.
		Autodesk 3ds Max Design Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software helps advertising and marketing agencies create compelling visuals of vehicles from digital prototypes.