Automatic Cad Designer

The Bluestar Automatic CAD Designer application, is an advanced add-in design tool for CAD solutions that helps you become more efficient with your CAD designing efforts. It leads to fewer mistakes and allows you to spend more time on innovative and value added design processes.
Fully integrated with Bluestar PLM embedded in Dynamics 365 & AX, the Bluestar CAD Designer tool allows you to easily find and reuse existing product data by seaching by parameters such as classifications, attributes, item relations and geometric similiarities.

Do not waste time and money on trivial design tasks in CAD

Engineers designing new innovative products in CAD, often rely on re-using structures and items from already existing product designs. However, actually
finding and generating existing product data in CAD can be a challenge, when the data is scattered accross different applications, poorly connected with one another.

On average, engineers use about a third of their working hours on communication, support, administration and documentation. This leaves for less time spent on actual engineering work: to develop innovative products.

When product data is not seamlessly shared between systems, engineers will end up performing manual processes such as searching for or recreating product data that may be lost or is outdated.

Manual documentation work has become a major bottleneck in todays market because businesses are being pushed to respond faster to market changes and
develop custom and complex products. As a result, it becomes harder for engineers to manage product information, and consequentially the product development process becomes slower, costlier and more error-prone.

Streamline the product development process

Bluestar CAD Designer provides design teams, with an advanced and intuitive tool that gives them instant and seamless access to ERP and PLM data from within CAD solutions. By utilizing the Bluestar CAD Designer add-in tool in your CAD-solution, you can fast and easily request and find any already approved item from the D365 & AX database. Bluestar synchronises every bit of data in real-time, making the data instantly accessible.

From within CAD, the Bluestar CAD Designer allows you to search for items from ERP, according to properties such as physical and geometric relatabilities between them. Bluestar CAD Designer is capable of automating the repetitive tasks of manually positioning and inserting components into the CAD model you are currently developing. This makes engineers far more efficient in their work by allowing them to share and reuse product data seamlessly, so your design teams can focus on what matter – developing innovative products.

Easily reuse items based on itemrelatability

Whenever you select an item in your CAD-model, Bluestar CAD Designer is able to display a list of items related to the select part. This list provides CAD-users an overview of all approved items that have once before been used in the same type of structure which the user is currently working on.

This is extremely valuable, as even in highly specialized engineer-to-order projects based on unique customer requirements, components and sub-assemblies are reused from existing products.

Bluestar CAD Designer allows you to have all these familiar components displayed within moments in your CAD. In turn you save precious time looking for data manually, when you are provided a list of already approved and revised items.

Find geometrically similar items

You can also search for items based on a select part’s geometric properties. Select a component in your CADmodel and Bluestar CAD Designer will display all parts that have similar geomtric and physical properties with it. The results will show from ‘very similar’ to ‘less similar items’

You then have a complete list of options to choose from that fit the geometric requirements of your product. This saves you time and money on creating, approving and transfering data into CAD, which already exists in your product database.

Download our free product sheet to explore more and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you might have.