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    CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People: No Nonsence Manuals, #3
    CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People: No Nonsence Manuals, #3
    CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People: No Nonsence Manuals, #3
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    CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People: No Nonsence Manuals, #3

    By Mark Lynch

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    Unleash the power of Computer Aided Design to deliver step-change improvements to all teams in your technical business - not just design. The focus is very much on results - bringing full 3D CAD engineering benefits enjoyed by larger firms, to small manufacturing businesses.

    Do you want to get the most out of your existing CAD package by doing what the best performing manufacturers and engineers do? Maybe you have wanted to get into this for a while and are considering implementing 3D CAD, perhaps making the leap from 2D? Alternatively, do you want to fully exploit 3D data in others areas like CAM, tooling and inspection, or perhaps 3D Printing?

    The time has never been better for small manufacturers to modernize, professionalize and reap big benefits for their production activities.

    CAD Engineering has the power to help you deliver superior quality, better functioning products to market, faster. For the individual engineer, they are quite simply some of the most sought after skills in industry. 3D CAD expertise does wonders for your employability.

    This book provides crystal clear advice to demonstrate how 3D CAD can benefit every business function, not just design. Put simply, if you are serious about remaining competitive, then fully exploiting 3D CAD is a must.

    For supply chain manufacturers who principally are production-based, benefits are numerous. They include improved working with supplier and client data, assembly, fitting and production instructions and procedures. Additional 3D CAD data can be used to drive better inspection, quality control, as well as manuals for service and maintenance and so much more.

    Wherever you are on your CAD Engineering journey you'll find great advice, tips and guidance.

    Contents include: Why CAD Engineering is commercially essential; Big benefits throughout the business including production and beyond; How to make the case for CAD investment in your business... and win! 3D CAD selection, evaluation and full implementation; 3D Printing without the hype - all manufacturers need to know; Making it happen - CAD Engineering action plan.

    CAD Engineering Essentials compliments traditional CAD training sources, by fully embedding and exploiting the technology for the good of the business. It's a no-nonsense manual written for practical application for engineers and manufacturers, who simply want to get the job done, deliver and succeed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Lynch
    Release dateAug 13, 2014
    ISBN9781502257765
    CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People: No Nonsence Manuals, #3

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    CAD Engineering Essentials - Mark Lynch

    1. Introduction

    Welcome to CAD Engineering Essentials – a straight talking guide written to deliver step-change improvements to your engineering business, by unleashing the power of Computer Aided Design. The focus is very much on results – bringing full CAD Engineering benefits to small manufacturing businesses. OK, so who is this for? Importantly, could you benefit?

    • Do you want to get more out of your 3D CAD software by doing what the best performing engineers and manufacturers do?

    • Maybe you’ve wanted to get into this for a while and are considering implementing 3D CAD, perhaps making the leap from 2D?

    • Alternatively, do you want to benefit by fully exploiting 3D data in other areas like CAM, tooling and inspection or perhaps 3D Printing?

    Larger engineering businesses have been reaping the benefits of CAD and CAM for years, often investing significantly, before seeing a return over and above what they expected. Now with the cost of computing plummeting, CAD training widely accessible and CAD and CAM software far more intuitive and user-friendly, the time has never been better for small manufacturers to modernise, professionalise and reap big benefits for their development and production activities. CAD Engineering has the power to help you deliver superior quality, better functioning products to market, faster.

    For the individual engineer, they are quite simply some of the most sought after skills in industry. CAD expertise does wonders for your employability. Here’s how you can get involved….

    2. Why CAD Engineering is Essential for Small Manufacturing Businesses

    Now more than ever, Small Manufacturers are under commercial pressure to bring new quality products to market quickly. Also for many businesses, production needs to be high quality, efficient and fast. Whether you are in the business of developing products for launch, or alternatively a manufacturer whose production could really benefit from computer aided manufacturing (CAM), or better jig and fixture design, 3D CAD has got something for you. In the experience of many small manufacturers who have taken the 3D CAD plunge, they find it yields benefits in so many unexpected areas throughout the business.

    What small manufacturers need then, is a straightforward explanation of 3D CAD Engineering, it’s benefits across the business, together with how best to justify the investment to senior managers. Following this, clear implementation and integration information is provided, for maximum benefit.

    Ideas need to be relevant to small engineering businesses and easy to understand, such that they can be applied quickly and conveniently in the workplace. What’s more, everybody knows how tough it is out there financially. So options need to be low cost.

    Note: CAD Engineering, as described here, includes 3D Computer Aided Design and derived technologies like simulation analysis (for example FEA and CFD), 3D Printing and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). Here, 3D CAD refers to three-dimensional models, whereas 2D CAD is essentially technical drawings.

    CAD Engineering – The Basics for Small Manufacturers

    Put simply, if you are serious about competing and remaining competitive, then 3D CAD should be a key part of your technology tool box. For small manufacturers who develop products, it is as straightforward as that. Likewise for supply chain manufacturers who principally are production based, but want to increase their flexibility and ability to handle customers’ CAD data, the ability to understand CAD files and organise their production set-up accordingly is paramount.

    Commercial pressures to get quality products to market quickly, have driven the adoption of 3D CAD and its derivative technologies like 3D printing, FEA (finite element analysis), CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and CAM (computer aided manufacturing). Alongside this, computing power has increased considerably, whilst tumbling in price. These trends continue.

    The real value of 3D CAD is the ability to design something once and use the CAD data later in other areas of the development process, and indeed the product life cycle, beyond. The benefits are covered comprehensively in the next section, but they can be summarised here. In short they are reduced development lead-times, fewer errors, significantly better quality and finally, big resultant cost reductions.

    However the picture for small manufacturers is patchy…

    • Some are fully signed up and are utilizing 3D data not only during the design stage, but also making use of this information throughout the business and beyond.

    • Many are using 3D CAD during design development, yet only partially exploiting the software’s full functionality.

    • Others are still using 2D CAD software to produce technical drawings, but not yet using 3D data.

    • Indeed, some in niche areas are still using hand drawn detailed drawings.

    • Additionally, some are using a combination of these, depending on the skills and facilities within the business.

    In response to this, practical assistance is provided later on in this section for small manufacturers striving to raise their game. It’s targeted at those whose aim is adopting greater use of 3D CAD and so reaping the significant benefits the technology has to offer.

    3D CAD Engineering adds real value throughout the development and manufacturing process. Examples include photorealistic rendering for illustrating concepts in areas like market research and sales, as well as 3D modelling, analysis and simulation during detail design. It also enables collaborative development projects with geographically dispersed design teams.

    Other production-related 3D CAD value-added activities include computer aided manufacturing (CAM), simulations to check tool paths before cutting metal, as well as the provision of data for tooling suppliers. Additionally, it enables you to supply assembly information during production, digital data for inspection, as well as outsourcing CAD data to your supply chain.

    3D CAD also facilitates rapid prototyping, or 3D Printing (for tactile feedback) and can supply clear instructions for quick maintenance, service, installation and recycling. Importantly, 3D CAD is pictorial and easy to understand in a way technical drawings simply are not. This is crucial to help gain buy-in from senior managers and non-technical specialists, like finance.

    Larger customers (prime manufacturers and their tier 1 suppliers) are driving the adoption of 3D CAD further down the

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