Automatic CAD Designer

Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.

Any manufacturer wants to be able to streamline their production by reusing existing parts for new products and items. New products are often highly customized, based on unique client requirements, however, they still share some of the structure and items with already existing products in your product database. Today, many design teams search for these parts manually – a trivial, inefficient but necessary task.

The Automatic CAD Designer allow you to standardize your engineering design work by reusing existing parts for new products and items. Since existing parts are already tested and approved, this saves valuable time on developing new items and structures. The more of data you can reuse in the design phase, the more efficient you will become.

The Automatic CAD Designer helps you:

  • Minimize trivial engineering tasks by reducing repetitive engineering work and streamline engineering processes.
  • Automate CAD design tasks from rule-based configuration selections and automating task of applying BOM changes to the model in CAD.
  • Re-use items and product structures already tested and approved in other products.
  • Use geometrical search functionality to find similar items used in other products.
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Streamline the reuse of released BOMs and items to empower product design

See how it works

Design your new products efficiently by retrieving items and parts in SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, and Solid Edge already released in Dynamics 365/AX.

  • Achieve a visual overview of existing related items that can be inserted into your new designs in CAD-solutions on demand. Searching on parameters such as product classes and geometric similarities allows you to reuse and find the exact item you are looking for.
  • Identifies and automatically inserts parts into a CAD model – applies to the known locations of a component based on where it has previously been located in other designs.
  • Items, BOMs and pdf drawings are synchronized between CAD and D365/AX seamlessly without having to jump between applications and manually entering data, making product development efficient and fast.

Standardize the design engineering process in SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, and Solid Egde.

Key Features of Automatic CAD Designer

Automatic mating by geometric position

Based on mate rules and attributes, the tool can identify and automatically insert parts into a CAD model. These parts are inserted to the known location based on where it has previously been located in other product designs.

Where used

Reveals which of your existing product designs in your database that holds the specific item, when you insert this item into a new CAD model.

BOM tree display

Displays the entire BOM structure and each line from top to bottom level, as well as revision count, quantities, approval status and more.

Search ERP data in CAD based on geometric similarity

Gives you an overview of all parts that have similar geometric properties and bounding box with any item selected in CAD.

Search ERP data in CAD based classification

Initiate a structured search for items, according to given product classes. Narrows down a search, making it easy to reuse certain structures and assemblies from your existing designs.

Search ERP data in CAD based attributes

Search by defining different attributes in values, intervals (≥), for instance, you want to narrow your search for a specific height to a specific part.

BOM builder

Create an assembly model by mating together and positioning existing items, to build a BOM in a hierarchical structure that can be automatically generated as a CAD model and transferred into ERP.

  • Intuitively drag-and-drop items into the BOM structure to adjust item positions and placement.
  • Transform the created BOM structure into its 3D CAD model counterpart.
  • Build 150% BOMs with a full list of all configuration options to choose from. Automatically insert the selected Master-BOM into CAD.
  • Seamlessly check in the BOM structure into ERP for further BOM management and release to production.

Your Benefits with Automatic CAD Designer Module

Automate CAD design and product configuration tasks

Generating CAD models from rule-based configuration selections and automating task of applying BOM changes to the model in CAD, rid design engineers of tedious tasks and make them more efficient.

Re-use product designs to empower engineering

Re-using released items and structures during product development mitigates time spent on re-creating and approving products from scratch.

Minimize trivial engineering tasks

Reduces repetitive work and streamline engineering processes, while engineers can spend less time performing monotonous but necessary design tasks in CAD.

Reduce errors

By reusing parts and items already approved by the engineering team, you can avoid the critical and time-consuming approval phases that new developed parts and items must go through. This reduces errors and saves you time and money.

Utilize ERP data in your CAD environment

On-demand access to ERP data in CAD lets design engineers easily incorporate transactions, on-hand quantities, pricing and more into product development for more efficiency and less errors.

Speed up time-to-market

Achieve reliable and real-time product data flow between engineering in CAD and the supply chain in ERP, with full historic traceability on all product changes up till the latest version, maximizing efficiency and reducing time-to-market.

CAD, PDM and PLM supported by Bluestar PLM:

SOLIDWORKS PDM

AUTODESK VAULT

INVENTOR

SOLID EDGE

SOLIDWORKS

EPLAN

ORCAD

PADS

ALTIUM

DRAFTSIGHT

CATIA

CREO

TEAMCENTER

WINDCHILL

SIEMENS NX

AUTOCAD

AUTOCAD PLANT

AUTOCAD ELECTRICAL

BIM

REVIT

And more…

Manage your 2D/3D files, PDM and CAD systems with Bluestar PLM

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Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com