Design++®

Advanced Engineering Design Automation Software

Design^++® is an intelligent design automation software that enables companies to effectively sell complex customized products. By equipping teams with design configurations, it reduces costs through automated rule reuse and minimizes rework, allowing for rapid design proposals and instant visual changes in your existing CAD solution.

Benefits

Customization & Flexibility

Adapt designs to specific project needs with ease.

Enhance Quality

Reduce errors and increase design accuracy

Improve Efficiency

Streamline Design Process

How does it work?

Design^++® simplifies CAD automation by selecting standard components and enabling real-time customization for unique product designs. It generates precise 3D visualizations and detailed, dimensioned drawings while leveraging captured product knowledge for an efficient, error-free workflow.

Design++ Visual Modeler (DVM)

Design^++®Visual Modeler (DVM) simplifies the decomposition of a product into a hierarchical bill-of-material-like model of assemblies and parts. As with spreadsheets, the task of implementing a design automation system is distilled into the simplest of all design tasks: the determination of a single value for a single property of a single component (a cell in a spreadsheet).

With Design^++® Design Rule Language, it is further simplified with higher level functions specifically intended for solving engineering design problems. A forward-parsing context-sensitive menu in the Design Rule Editor enables self-guided point-and-click rule development.

Incremental Development

Design^++® provides both an incremental development environment and an integrated test environment. Configuration, selection, engineering, and design rules are automatically and immediately integrated into the evolving solution for immediate testing and validation. Portions that are not yet developed are automatically considered through prompts for missing data facilitating complete early tests.

At every stage of the development cycle Design^++® provides a running system. The immediate testing and validation is performed by product experts themselves and eliminates the long feedback cycle inherent in the product expert – system analyst – programmer – product expert feedback loop.

Powerful Engines

In a running a Design^++® solution, its internal engines prove their real power. Design^++® Dynamic Configurator configures product models and reasons about what components to include in them. The Execution Order Controller automatically determines the order in which rules must be run both during first pass design and during changes. The Intelligent Change Manager propagates changes as far, but only as far, as required. In complex design situations, this is a real time saver.

Field experience show that they reduce the typical automation effort up to 90%. This means that whenever and wherever a change is originated in the design, the subsequent re-engineering and re-design is executed in the right order, accounting for the proper interactions. These engines automatically take care of interactions between the primitive tasks defined with DVM.

Seamless integration with CAD

Representing designs in 3-dimensional models and 2-dimensional drawings is an important aspect in the engineering design work process. Design^++® provides pre-implemented Geometry Objects that automatically link into standard CAD. This eliminates a large effort required in most other design automation projects.