Today’s 3D solid model applications are highly sophisticated but 2D drawings are still required for many functions within a company and often with suppliers and contract manufacturers. DesignGateway™ bridges the gap between the two, enabling 2D design applications and 3D solid modelers to communicate without need of a separate step to translate data to an intermediate format such as IGES, STEP or DXF.
This enables users of CADRA® or AutoCAD® to utilize their wealth of existing 2D drawings to generate sketches for their 3D modelers. In addition, directly within the 2D application, users can easily harness the 3D modeling data to create drawings, including standard, section and auxiliary views, without having to master the complexities of the 3D applications.
DesignGateway offers a variety of integration solutions to meet your needs:
DesignGateway™ Professional — the premier DesignGateway solution that includes sophisticated 2D and 3D view and markup capabilities for hundreds of file formats
DesignGateway™ Lite — DesignGateway starter version that includes a time saving project organization tool
DesignGateway™ for AutoCAD® — enables AutoCAD and your 3D solid model to share data and to communicate without data translation, integrating sophisticated 3D visualization into the AutoCAD environment
DesignGateway™ for CADRA® — enables CADRA and your 3D solid model application to share data and to communicate without data translation, integrating sophisticated 3D visualization into the 2D CADRA environment
DesignGateway is a standalone application that runs under a license management system. Under the license manager, applications can run on single systems or local and wide area networks. License management lets you configure your system for maximum resource usage while minimizing software costs.
DesignGateway™ Professional provides a quick and easy way to create and maintain 2D geometry from industry standard 3D modelers. DesignGateway communicates with the modeling software package that exists on any machine on the local network to deliver drafting views and section cuts, accurately, without translation. With a simple and intuitive interface, a CAD user is able to create, section and update views of 3D models with ease.
DesignGateway Professional adds sophisticated 2D and 3D viewing and markup capabilities for hundreds of file formats along with an integrated easy to use project organization tool. Click here for a complete list of supported formats.
DesignGateway™ Lite is a sophisticated 2D viewing and markup application for hundreds of file formats (including CADRA®) along with an integrated easy to use project organization tool.
DesignGateway™ for AutoCAD® provides a method by which your AutoCAD® and 3D solid model applications can communicate and share information without need to translate data to an intermediate format such as IGES, STEP and DXF. It provides capabilities for AutoCAD users to perform 3D view and section creation right from within AutoCAD and for 3D users to receive accurate sophisticated sketches from AutoCAD to jumpstart creation of solid models.
DesignGateway communicates with the modeling software that exists on your local network to deliver drafting views and section cuts, accurately and without intermediate file translation. With a simple and intuitive interface, AutoCAD users can create, section, and update views of 3D models with ease.
DesignGateway™ for CADRA® makes the interoperability between 2D and 3D much easier and less costly. It enables DesignGateway for CADRA and a number of popular 3D solid modeling applications to communicate without the need to translate data to an intermediate format, as well as CADRA users to perform 3D view and section creation without leaving the CADRA application or needing to master a 3D application. In turn, SolidWorks and Pro/Engineer users can also receive accurate sophisticated sketches from CADRA to begin creation of their solid models.
DesignGateway for CADRA has all the features you’ve come to appreciate with CADRA® Works plus adds support for Pro/Engineer, CATIA and Parasolid® models and assemblies. Your CADRA users will benefit with the ability to:
Re-orient the model prior to view creation (without disturbing the original model data)
Preview of view creation
Utilize a 3D model window that allows you to view and rotate shaded, wireframe and hidden line views of the model within CADRA
Share solid modeling applications with other users from around your network
Generate views of SolidWorks models with cosmetic threads
Automatically connect to a running SolidWorks session when CADRA is started
Explore infinite re-orientation angles of the solid models and assemblies before creating views
DesignGateway™ for AutoCADŽ
“Using the DesignGateway software, our company has been able to increase our productivity and time to market while still maintaining our goals of going to a Solids environment. We accomplished all this without the interruptions generally associated with changing to another software system in a global operation.”
--Thomas Piechota, Sr. Design Engineer Dresser Measurement & Control
