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News Release from: CoCreate Software | Subject: Designer Modeling
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 November 2006
Order prompts switch from drafting to
modelling
Alpina Raggi has fuelled company growth by upgrading its development environment to 3D CAD.
Alpina Raggi has fuelled company growth by upgrading its development environment to 3D CAD The company, based in Lombardy, Italy, designs and manufactures wheel parts mainly for the motorbike industry and counts companies like BMW, KTM and Yamaha as its customers
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We went from CoCreate's 2D software, Designer Drafting, to Designer Modeling when we won an order for a highly complex machine that could simply not be designed in 2D", says Fabio Alberio, Tecnical and R and D Director at Alpina Raggi, Italy.
Alpina Raggi investigated parametric software solutions but found none adequate for its purposes.
"Parametric software is just not suitable when engineers need to work flexibly", says Alberio.
"Late changes are time consuming and, in some cases, even impossible when designers have to consider impact on things like history trees".
Alberio also noted that modelling better handles larger amounts of data, like those the company expected with its new customer and order.
That means that loading, navigation, and other work moves faster and more reliably in the CoCreate solution.
"Designer Modeling allows us to concentrate on the model and freely design, rather than having to focus on how best to plan the process to accommodate big files and last-minute changes", says Alberio.
Designer Modeling is an essential part of CoCreate's lean product development philosophy.
Lean product development calls for technology that blends easily with existing production tools, but also brings significantly less complexity and more value to design processes.
As such, OneSpace Designer Modeling supports features like history-free modelling and rich master models, so designers can attach any information to models.
Then, anyone who uses the model later can be sure of the original designer's intent.
"We expect to save time using rich master models since we don't have to puzzle out information again and again", says Alberio.
"That's especially useful as the designs move away from engineering and on to other processes and teams".
CoCreate partner, Next Technologies, supports Alpina Raggi's design software environment and helped the company choose and deploy the best 3D solution and addons for its needs.
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