How can V11 help a design engineer improve a product’s time-to-market?
Grayson: It enables design engineers to create more complex product assemblies quicker and easier. It also enables more productive data management and online collaborative data sharing, which means that designers, manufacturing engineers, and suppliers can easily share access to product data in a secure managed environment and quickly resolve design issues or decide on manufacturing techniques. PD&D: Why did V11 include Solidworks file compatibility? Grayson: To make it easier for designers to access designs created in Solidworks and to use or modify these designs within Alibre Design models. Engineers often have access to design files in various formats such as SolidWorks, STEP, IGES, and DXF. Alibre Design V11 supports all of these formats. PD&D: How will the software assist 3-D newcomers who are still working on improving their modeling skills? Grayson: Alibre Design V11, in both the commercial and Xpress versions, have extensive built-in Help systems and tutorial training materials
