What is 3D CAD?

Please use your mouse to manipulate the above example of a 3D model

Three dimensional Computer Aided Draughting (3D CAD or Solid Modelling) enables a designer/product developer/customers to visualise and, in some cases, measure the characteristics of performance of a product as a 3D model before it is actually manufactured and exists in the real world.

To the designer/product developer the ability to measure such characteristics as:-

Tensile shear and hoop stress,

Thermal effects,

Flow analysis for fluids and air,

Acoustical ramifications,

all enable a confidence that the product developed will be fit for purpose, safe to use and meets the design brief and specifications.

To the customer 3D Solid Modelling enables you to:-

see the product develop,

ensure it meets your exact specifications,

take basic physical measurements of the product using specialist free software,

employ pictorial views for advertising purposes.

Once the product has been developed electonically then it is possible, if chosen, for a prototype to be developed using a technique of "Rapid Prototyping" or working drawings can be produced from the model ready for manufacture.