Why automate design?

To automatically generate custom:

  • 3D SolidWorks models
  • 2D drawings
  • reports (BOM, routings, cut list, etc.)
  • quotes

Design automation enables product customization for each customer:

  • manufacture to orders received,
    not to inventory
  • give the customer what he wants,
    not a loose fit to a stock item
  • forge a customer relationship,
    build a barrier to distant competitors
  • lower resource use by customizing,
    avoiding compromises and overdesign
  • quote rapidly and accurately,
    don't estimate a product not yet designed
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Why automate now?

Until now, design automation was the province of design gurus, CAD virtuosos and expensive consultants. Not any more!

Now there is Genus Designer 2011 for SolidWorks

Designer makes the solution of easy problems easy and hard problems possible by documenting your design in an executable design language — Genus Design Language (GDL).

GDL allows you to divide and conquer tough design problems in stages with a model and language constructs targeted at distinct sub-problems, making the solution of each simpler. Together they are powerful.

You don't get the benefits of design automation unless your application goes into production. Engineering is hard, but mastering GDL is easy, getting you into production and delivering the benefits of design automation.

Go beyond mere a configuration.

Configurators only automate the easy design problems.

For everything else, they are either glorified catalog look-up systems or give up and hand the problem back to your engineer to do "what-if"ing. When faced a true design problem, a configurator has to "dumb-down" the problem to fit the limitations of the tool.

Genus Designer is different.

Designer automates both the design exploration and generation. Designer:

  • creates and evaluates design alternatives
  • eliminates invalid designs
  • presents the set of possible designs and their trade-offs
  • generates the CAD model, drawings and reports for the designs you choose

The power of Genus Designer's GDL simplifies solving the real problem. It doesn't simplify the problem to make it solvable by an inadequate tool. Genus Designer lowers the risk of getting your design application into production as you envisioned it so you can reap the benefits.