DESIGNER is purpose-built for smarter manufacturing, providing a variety of solid, surface, sheet metal modelling capabilities, creation of 2D drawings, electrode design, design automation through macros and scripting, and a link to Hexagon CAM software and reverse engineering functionalities. 
DESIGNER liberates users from the constraints of previous methods of creation to give users complete creative freedom. DESIGNER offers a wide range of features and capabilities to help users optimise products more efficiently.

More powerful design

DESIGNER’s sophisticated capabilities remove the time and effort of manual processes with more automated, streamlined approaches to CAD. 

• Direct modelling – frees the designer from the constraints of a traditional, history-based modelling system
• Geometry for manufacturing - DESIGNER provides a host of geometry creation techniques that are critical for model preparation
• Model repair - gaps in imported models are automatically healed, preventing manual time-consuming healing processes.
• Feature suppression - supressing these unrequired features or separating them for subsequent operations is just a mouse click away.
• Model simplification - Creating model variations for each stage of the process becomes simple and the machining results are fast and of higher quality.
• Advanced surfacing - DESIGNER’s surfaces module enables the creation and manipulation of complex, freeform surfaces such as lofted, helical, swept and tangential surfaces.

Software Package Contents

Software Modules (Mandatory)

• DESIGNER (PS-STD-DES)
• DESIGNER Basic Training - Online (2 days) (TR-DES-CAD1S-O)

Software Modules (Optional)

• DESIGNER Surface (PS-STD-ADSU)
• DESIGNER Advanced Training -  Online (1 day) (TR-DES-CAD2S-O)

Minimum hardware specifications

• Windows 10 - 64 bit:
  • Only Professional versions supported
• The processor chip must support the SSE2 instruction set:
  • All 64 bit processors support SSE2
• Graphics board supporting either OpenGL or DirectX:
  • Minimum 1920x1080 resolution
  • Supporting at least 65,000 colours
• OpenGL graphics cards must support OpenGL 3.0
• DirectX graphics cards must support DirectX 9.0c
• 4GB RAM

Recommended hardware specifications

• Windows 10 Creator edition onwards
• Graphics: 512MB+ onboard RAM
• ATI FirePro series or the NVidia Quadro series with latest drivers
• 16GB RAM
• SSD HardDisk

Recommended hardware specification for reverse and data acquisition

• Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
• 64GB RAM
• Intel Xeon processor @3 GHz or equivalent
• NVIDIA Quadro P5000 with 5 GB memory