 About
Creative Dezign Concepts... | |
 Located
in Mooresville, North Carolina (Race City, USA) we are the major source for 3D
CAD/CAM and reverse engineering for the Nascar race teams as well as major manufacturing.
As a Solution provider of 3D CAD/CAM and reverse engineering we provide the highest
quality in technology to meet your design and engineering needs. Affordable and
easy to use your goals will be achieved with gratification of accomplishment and
assuring future growth to your business. Feel free to contact
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Creative
Dezign Concepts is a member of NCMA,
the North Carolina Motorsports Association, which is a newly formed nonprofit
corporation designed and structured to to be an effective representative and proponent
of and for the motorsports industry in North Carolina. The NCMA is a trade association
of the businesses and individuals involved in motor racing in the State. The basic
concept is to unite various business elements of the motorsports industry in North
Carolina to promote the well-being and future of the industry. |
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| | Solidworks
Manufacturing Network Partner [
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Dezign Concepts is a proud partner of the SolidWorks Manufacturing Network and
bring over 50 years of design and manufacturing experience with us to share with
other partners. This network is a community of manufacturing companies who work
with native SolidWorks models. As
a Manufacturing
Network Partner, Creative Dezign Concepts can help you transform your
designs into quality products more quickly and at a lower cost.
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| | Our
Belief’s about the 3D Solid modeling Environment ... | |
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Dezign Concepts' certified gold product, DezignWorks
is a feature-based reverse engineering (RE) software product that supports SolidWorks
2007 and Inventor R11. Engineers and designers use DezignWorks and SolidWorks
or Inventor to capture data from existing parts directly within their respective
design environments, maintaining the associativity so they can design better products
faster and more accurately,
speeding time to market. |
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believe the directional shift from the 2D Drafting environment to a 3D Solid Modeling
environment is being driven by the following environmental conditions:
1) Corporations
realize the potential of operational efficiency as a competitive advantage.
A)
time to market cycle reduction History
has proven that time-to-market cycles can only be reduced by dramatically speeding
up the rate at which information is processed through and organization.
The rate of information flow through an organization can only be increased by
one of two means - either by making the flow path larger (adding more personnel)
or by simplifying the path (i.e. increasing the efficiency of the existing path).
The strategy of fully utilizing the power of computers and software is the cornerstone
of two of the most common time-to-market reduction methods:
a)
Elimination of non value added process steps (reengineering) and
b) Concurrent engineering (all
facets of the organization working on a project in a parallel manner as opposed
to a traditional series manner - including is some cases the final customer B)
Quality The
quality definition applies to the aggregate processes, decisions, and services
inherent within the corporation, in addition to the final product. The grounding
for this new definition is the emphasis on the accurate information generation
at the beginning of any process and the subsequent clarity of the information
transmission between all the various hand-off points within a process. A
majority of the costs associated with the fixes downstream of the inaccuracy generation
pints are typically buried in the ever-expanding monster referred to as overhead
and therefore avoid direct visibility. The
driver for the whole entire production process, directly behind the sales order,
is the information generated in engineering. Any inaccuracies in bill of
materials, drawings, or calculations eventually show up downstream in any or all
of the following forms: lost productivity, missed schedules, unhappy customers,
and departmental finger pointing - all of which from a business perspective at
the end of the day directly translate into additional operating cost per dollar
shipped. Inaccuracies
which surface from information generated within any 2D drafting based engineering
dept. emanate from 4 sources: A)
Failure to accurately construct all three views on a drawing (dumb geometry).
Most 2D drawings do not contain sufficient information to build a physical model
without some guessing from the final constructor.
B)
Failure to update all three drawings once one view has been updated
C) Failure to update either the
detail, layout, or bill of material, once any one of these three has been changed
D) Failure to visualize and subsequently
correct interference points within assemblies. One
must assume that a certain amount of the information generated within the engineering
level is flawed - contradicting the basic thrusts of any quality initiative.
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Efficiency Advantages of the 3D Solid Modeling Environment... | | | | |  1)
Bidirectionally Associative Design. Assembly drawings, details, and bill
of materials are all electronically "connected" change either assembly drawing
or a detail and the remaining two documents update automatically.
2) "Intelligent" Geometry is in
such a format as to allow other departments such as the machine shop, mechanical
analysis, assembly, and manual writing to readily process the information.
3) Integrated Functional Solutions.
The basic interface screen for the design engineers, CNC Programmer, and technical
publication writer are all the same.
4)
Single Database. Since all departments effectively operate on the same model
there is no need to maintain a separate drawing database for each department.
5) Visualization. Solid
models allow engineers, managers, assembly personnel, salesmen, purchasing agents,
machining personnel, and field installation personnel to call up any drawing and
manipulate a virtual modeling real time in order to gain a better understanding
of its design or function.
6)
Parametric Design Functionality. Once a design is sketched, any future geometry
adjustments to those sketches can be made by simply selecting the subject dimension,
which controls that geometry and type in a new value. This feature allows
for blistering fast design changes as well as development of new assemblies /
parts which are similar to existing assemblies / parts.
7) Rapid technological advances
in personal computers and software
Only
in last few years have personal computers offered the CAD user community the computational
speed required to run modern 3D software in a virtual real time mode at a price
point which is appealing to a significant portion of the market. The Window's
operating systems have provided PC users with friendly graphical user interface
(GUI), multiple document interface (MDI), a common communication pipeline for
integrating many functional programs which include word processors, spreadsheets,
databases, graphics files, video files and even internet files, and a true multitasking
operating system which allows the user to run multiple programs simultaneously
8)
A work force literate in the tools of technology and eager to reap the proven
productivity benefits which they provide The
CAD software and personal computer literate work force has been steadily increasing
primarily from past industrial CAD installations and local colleges. This
group of professionals serves as the crucial infrastructure foundation from which
the full benefits of a 3D solid modeling environment can be built.
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Results... | |
| | |  Professor
Eric Wiebe teaches CAD at North Carolina State University. He had been teaching
with Pro/Engineer. Professor Wiebe conducted a learn ability assessment study
using a test group of 7 students. The students completed 12 weeks of a 15-week
Pro/E course. They were asked to model a valve and were timed how long it
took them to complete. The same group of students was then asked to model
the same valve using Solidworks and their efforts were timed. With no previous
experience with Solidworks the group was able to model the same valve in 30 to
45 minutes vs. 45 minutes to 2.5 hours with Pro/E. The results offer very
compelling evidence of Solidworks ease-of-use. The significant costs of
Pro/E are not only the cost of software and the high annual maintenance fees,
but also include training time, training costs, design opportunity costs lost
due to the steep learning curve and ramp up time requirements.
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