Software proves essential for printer design

Leading printer manufacturers around the world use CoCreate's OneSpace Designer Modeling as the tool of choice for fast and flexible 3D CAD design.

Leading printer manufacturers around the world use CoCreate's OneSpace Designer Modeling as the tool of choice for fast and flexible 3D CAD design.

Designer Modeling has become an essential tool in the printer manufacturer sector, where rapid design cycles, complex mould parts, and intense supply chain interaction allow little time for design changes.

Printer manufacturers such as Brother, Canon, Epson, Fuji Xerox Printing Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Mutoh, Oce and Oki Data rely on Designer Modeling to support 3D CAD development.

History-based modelling tools constrain designs and make changes difficult, especially under the time pressures of releasing a design to manufacturing.

Throughout the design cycle, team members also need the freedom to hand off their work to other contributors to continue or complete the design.

Printer manufacturers face aggressive price competition and continually seek to optimise their product development process.

One of the most expensive aspects of printer manufacturing is the design and construction of molds; Designer Modeling significantly cuts these costs for 3D users through the re-use of common features.

Simple cut and paste operations make it possible to simply and easily apply ribs, bosses and other features from one design to another.

Designer Modeling offers the alternative approach that has popularized it across printer manufacturers and other industries that face time-to-market pressures: dynamic modeling, or history-free modeling, lets designers quickly make changes and pass designs to other team members.

Teams using Designer Modeling can support frequent or late-stage design changes as well as true team design where engineers work on each other's complex models.

"The reality today is that products are designed in teams".

"Any team member should be able to pick up a design and run with it", said William M Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO.

"At CoCreate, we're providing a real-world design solution for real people".

"Our customers demand design flexibility and rapid return on investment".

"They don't have the luxury of dedicating weeks or months to mastering the complexity of history-based 3D CAD tools".

"CoCreate's Designer Modeling is modeling for the real world".

OneSpace Designer Modeling is priced at $2,780 for an annual subscription which includes updates and support.

Alternatively, it can be purchased as a perpetual licence.

Additional design modules, CAD data management tools, and CAD convertors for translating data from other 3D design systems are also available for purchase.

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