3D CAD Solution for Mechanical Design
Unlimited 3D Design
TopSolid'Design, based on Parasolid® Kernel, gives access to powerful solid and surface modeling tools.
Design your ideas without restriction !
- Chronology based design, parametric and associative
- Large set of modeling features for mechanical engineers or complex shape designers
- Direct Editing tools to freely modify 3D geometries
- Complete and automated sheet metal design module
Fully Integrated PDM
TopSolid'Design is natively integrated with TopSolid'Pdm, providing a unique user experience.
- One Application, One User Interface
- Improves collaboration between sites, teams, and people.
- Streamlines engineering and production processes.
- Reduces the risk of design and manufacturing errors.
- Manages Revisions of all types of documents (part, assembly, etc.).
- Secure access to data (user's rights) and tracks all changes.
- Manages Products Life Cycles.
- Find documents by criteria, by references, by use cases.
Assembly Modeling
TopSolid'Design accelerates the design process of complex assemblies.
- Bottom-up method: assembly by existing components
- Top-down method: starting from conceptual sketches and designing in-place parts without restrictions
- Large assemblies capabilities, with partial loading and simplified representations
- Faster design of welded structures
Save time in case of changes. Associativity keeps up to date all documents, from conceptual sketches to final parts.
Smart Components
TopSolid'Design provides a unique set of features to define and customize smart components.
Smart Components will store and apply your Company Know-How, helping you to standardize your projects, and improve your daily productivity.
- High-End parameterization engine, without programming
- Unlimited fields of application: mechanical, sheetmetal, steel structures, furnitures, …
- Smart Components make their own operations and features, ready to manufacture in TopSolid'Cam
- Build your own Library of Components, design faster, avoid human errors
TopSolid'Design also provides Libraries of smart mechanical components, based on the following norms: ISO, AFNOR, ANSI, DIN, GB.
Simulation
TopSolid'Design provides a powerful kinematics and dynamics engine, based on rigid groups and mechanical joints. It can be applied on simple sketches for conceptual design, or on 3D assemblies for final simulation.
- Animate and verify quickly your conceptual designs
- Define easily articulated components
- Kinematics definition is independant from the structure of the assembly, giving much more freedom for designers
- Simulate Kinematics and Dynamics, detect and analyze collisions, make measurements (speed, distance, ...)
- Helps you to take better decisions, faster
Documents for Manufacturing
TopSolid'Design creates all necessary production-ready documents, such as :
- 2D Drawings: Automatic Views and Dimensions
- ISO GPS Tolerancing: on 3D model (PMI) or in 2D Drawings
- Accurate Bill of Materials
- List of Parts to manufacture
- List of Parts to buy
- Automatic Indexing
- Exploded Assemblies with Mounting/Dismounting steps
- Extruded Bars Nesting and Cutting List
All documents are stored and managed by TopSolid'Pdm, and remain associative to the 3D Design.
Photorealistic Rendering
- A complete immersion for your customers
- Real-time rendering to setup the scene
- Raytracing rendering to produce photorealistic images
- Materials
- PBR Materials (Physically Based Rendering)
- Integration of Adobe Substance 3D Generators
- Lighting
- HDR Environnements
- Spots Lights, Area Lights, Sun Light, IES Lights
- Camera
- Match your Rendering Camera to a real Photo
Open and Flexible CAD Software
TopSolid'Design opens and works with most types of CAD Data.
- Read Native and Neutral Formats
- Catia, Creo, NX
- Solidworks, Inventor, SolidEdge
- Parasolid, STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG, FBX
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- Read PointCloud Data from 3D Scanners
- .xyz, .pts, .ply
- Use PointClouds as construction reference for your Designs
- Direct editing tools to adapt quickly imported geometries
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The TopSolid 30 Day Trial is available for free and includes the full version of TopSolid and FREE tutorials to help you get started.
TopSolid'Store offers free downloadable content around TopSolid.
TopSolid'Viewer allows you to view and share any TopSolid document (design, drawing, machining, kinematics etc) without the need for a TopSolid license. TopSolid'Viewer is free of charge and available in versions 6 and 7.
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