With over 20 years of CAD application development, we are well-versed in the common problems that often arise during development. Automating the design process using CAD customization is not as easy as it sounds. The success of a design automation application is based on several factors. Design automation developers understand that there are certain complexities in building an application for automating CAD processes. The difficulties faced in developing design automation systems are very different from other application development issues.
Here are four major problems that often arise while developing a customized CAD application.
- Capturing Design Data to be Programmed
During our initial discussion with the design team to understand the design process, it’s very difficult for the engineers to explain the process of design engineering clearly, so that it can be brought under the framework of a system. This lack of standardized processes for product design makes it complex to understand the areas that can be automated.
- Improper Task Identification
It’s very important to identify the right tasks or parts of the process to be automated. Selection of wrong tasks or not so useful tasks for automation defeats the entire purpose of design automation. Moreover, proper planning of development is key to successful completion of the project.
- Application System Design
While developing the system for a CAD customization application, a common problem is to find a situation where the design rules and facts are not interlinked. This makes system designing of the application not so module based. In today’s highly developed system framework design world, not having a 100% module-based system appears as poor design.
- Data Formatting
Design automation applications are driven by input and output data, all the data includes the description of geometry. This system has to convert the CAD data that’s provided as input to geometry-based data for computing further. As the companies moved to CAD systems, these systems have to be developed to perform the task as expected.
Trikonic is a fast-growing design automation company providing end-to-end design automation solutions for the engineering design process. Our CAD customization services for 2D and 3D CAD software and design utility development simplify your design process, improve how your design engineering team works, increase efficiency and cut costs.
