Design X is a remarkable product that enables the creation of a fully-featured CAD model from a scan or point cloud from any device that can produce one of these files. It can return planes, sketches with constraints, dimensions, features, and can generally build completely native, history-based CAD models for a variety of the most common CAD systems including Solidworks, Solid Edge, Inventor, Pro-e, Creo, and NX.
Today, the requirements for a fully native CAD model with history are somewhat less important than they were many years ago when most CAD systems were only history-based. CAD systems that were formally history-based now offer “Direct Modeling” tools or have released new versions of the product that support both Direct as well as history-based Modeling. This makes neutral and Kernel file formats such as Step, VDA, Parasolid, and ACIS just as productive for these modelers as history-based models.
Introducing Design X Essentials
Design X Essentials is half the price of Design X but still includes the vast majority of modeling tools that make Design X such an incredible system. While the transfer of a fully native, history-based model into a product like Solidworks isn’t part of Design X Essentials, it could still create Step or Parasolid files to import into a history-based (only) modeler. The imported model would react like any other CAD modeler had exported the Step or Parasolid file.
Image of a scan and derived model using Design X Essentials.
And for direct modelers, a Step or Parasolid model is exactly what is required to offer an editable model that may be used in an assembly, modified, used for drafting applications, and so on.
Image of a derived model with scan turned off.
Design X Essentials provides the vast majority of the Design X power at ½ the price and generates fully usable neutral and Kernel models suitable for essentially any CAD, CAM, or FEA system.
Please contact Joel Pollet of Cimquest for any additional information.
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