There is a-lot of technology out there to create and utilize your CAD models. But how DO YOU use it?

If 2015 is the year you will get down to the business of improving your design process by finally achieving your return on investment (ROI) from your CAD tools, then kick-off your efforts with new courses from Action Engineering.

Offered late in January, these Live interactive workshops, immerse the members of your organization in understanding all the trials and tribulations of leveraging CAD models to improving your design to manufacture process.

Come and focus on the process, rather than anyone particular CAD tool, and walk away with a plan to set your vision of model-based processes into play.
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Are you thinking of increasing your use of your 3D solid models? Do you know what’s different about documenting your product efficiently with a 3D model, rather than with a 3D drawing? It doesn’t mean you don’t have to provide manufacturing details that define the way your product design is communicated, but creating an MBD model, can save you time.

It’s true that MBD standards are still evolving that define the 3D MBD model, but it doesn’t mean you have to wait for them.

Get ahead! Learn more about MBD and MBE now.

Check-out the Re-Use Your CAD training series. The first course is FREE and can be accessed on demand from the web. As your needs and level of MBD model implementation increase, more detailed webinars and live face-to-face, human-being to human-being contact is well worth your bang for the buck.

Definitely rely on your CAD software providers and resellers to provide pick and click training, but getting non-biased, user-based assistance is critical to successful MBE implementation.

Action Engineering offers MBD and MBE Training and how to define MBD models. Here is a summary of the courses.

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Are you involved in Design Quality Assurance at your organization? Have you read this book? If not, I encourage you to do so.

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Learn how to create, deliver, and re-use CAD models in compliance with model-based standards. Provides CAD format agnostic techniques for compliance with ASME Y14.41 and MIL-STD-31000A Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Technical Data Packages (TDP). The handbook provides 3D model protocols that enable Model-Based Engineering and Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) that will save time, reduce risk and improve products.

Do you need to educate CAD Designers, Checkers, CAD/PLM Administrators, CAD Super-users and their Managers on how to create 3D models that are used downstream for direct manufacture, technical publications and customer deliverables. Using CAD best practice and modeling rules from relevant MBD and MBE standards, this straightforward handbook will move your organization forward into using, re-using and reaping the benefits of CAD.

• Provides CAD format agnostic techniques, while still creating in Native CAD, for compliance with ASME Y14.41 and MIL-STD-31000A.

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Anark Core™ 4.3.2 debuted last week at GPDIS 2014 Conference in Phoenix Az., hosted by Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Parker Aerospace.

Having used Anark’s Core product to publish MBD data sets into 3D PDFs, I have to admit that after careful setup, it is a nice “push-button” publishing solution. Integrating with PDM/PLM systems certainly fills in a few more pieces of the MBE puzzle.

Take a look at the assembly capability and the associative parts list using SolidWorks and Anark Core to generate the 3D PDF data set for landing gear.

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