Mechanical Fabrication design
Mechanical Fabrication design
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Dear All,
I need to know the best design software for - Mechanical Fabrication design. How is the field of fabrication design for next 20yrs.
Can anyone help in this regard...!!
Thankyou.
I need to know the best design software for - Mechanical Fabrication design. How is the field of fabrication design for next 20yrs.
Can anyone help in this regard...!!
Thankyou.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
I have seen hundreds of horrible designs created on all kinds of software. Make sure your focus is on learning the lessons from examining how the masters of the past have created successful designs.
That said, my software of preference is Solidworks. But I also still fall back on good old 2D Autocad on almost a daily basis.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
The first step is getting a good description. "Mechanical Fabrication design" could be setting up a factory to fabricate mechanical items, or it could be design of tools and machines for fabrication, or it might be the design of mechanical parts with an understanding of fabrication techniques.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
There are software's like,
Autodesk Advance Steel
Revit® BIM software
IronCAD is designed FOR fabrication & assembly
These are specific for Mechanical Fabrication purpose, any idea regarding this?
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
I would like to know which software is used around the world specifically, for Fabrication design works.
Thanks in advance.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
Spend more time researching the companies you would like to work for - you can see from the job postings what software they use.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
medium to small companies use solid works, AutoCAD, and Inventor. it really depends on the product.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
I self learned SW in uni, and use Pro/E in my carrier for almost 10 years and now back to SW for almost 5 years.
you can have all important features in SW library and i feel SW is the most user friendly software as a Mechanical engineer personally.
R.Efendy
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
Worry more about your design and visualization skills. Turn your mind into a design machine, and all CAD essentially looks the same.
Top-tier (NX and CATIA) can of course do all the things. If you are getting into a field where they are predominant, then it's worth your time.
Mid-tier CAD (short list)
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
Hope Solidworks-Weldment serves the most which i intended.
Do i need to learn the basic's of Medelling and Assembly of Solidworks, inorder to work in Weldments?
Thanks in advance.
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
RE: Mechanical Fabrication design
How strongly can I say this? YES!! YES!! YES!!
SW Weldments is an extremely strong tool. But it takes a while to really learn to master it. To do that one must learn the power of non-merged bodies, patterning, how to manipulate configurations, sketch parent-child relations, weldment cut lists, reference views of individual bodies, and some other tricks. I've been designing machined weldments on it for over 10 years and I'm still learning. I look over some of my earlier designs and cringe at the immaturity the show.