Conceptual Engineering

Innovation requires creativity. Creativity requires a productive workspace. SpaceClaim is that workspace.

Support Innovation by Enabling Creativity

Easily visualize and evaluate designs, achieving new levels of creativity and product innovation. SpaceClaim is the only 3D direct modeler designed from the ground up to be the fastest tool available for 3D concept design and problem solving.  

• Quickly create new designs and easily change them later.
• Use groundbreaking 3D modeling tools to create an extremely rapid modeling environment.  
• Reuse almost any 2D or 3D CAD file and edit it as though it were originally created in SpaceClaim.  
• Have complete control over assembly structures and bill of materials.  

Deliver Competitive Product Advantage

To have an edge in today’s highly competitive global marketplace, manufacturers must be flexible, fast, and cost efficient. SpaceClaim Engineer provides designers with that extra edge.

• Easily create concept models that integrate design data across engineering disciplines, industrial design, and existing in-house, customer, and supplier data.
• Respond in real-time to customer requirements with rich concept models and stunning photorealistic renderings.
• Eliminate surprises late in the design process and last-minute ECOs.  
• Bid lower and win more with better control and understanding of product development costs.  

Reach New Levels of Process Efficiency

Design engineers can now quickly and easily create accurate solid models that specify the design intent needed to drive detailed design. They can also visualize and modify CAD models and ensure that detailed design continues to meet engineering objectives.

Features

3D Modeling Tools Designed for Speed

SpaceClaim Engineer provides engineers with a range of unique and powerful features that create an extremely fast, interactive engineering environment.  

• Gain full control over all common solid modeling operations with unique Pull, Move, Fill, and Combine tools.
• Position geometry precisely, without worrying about constraints.
• Draw and edit directly in the cross section, so that you can work on complex assemblies without needing to show and hide parts.
• Structure assemblies at any time, without worrying about parent-child relationships. Parts can live in different documents or an entire assembly structure and be stored in one file.
• Copy and paste from old models into new ones, regardless of origin.  

Bring Together Disparate Data and Homegrown Tools

Mix and match any 2D and 3D data: wireframe, mesh, surface, ECAD, solid, sketches, images, and movies. Get all of the relevant data in one place and at one time.  

• Open data in most popular 2D and 3D formats, including DXF, DWG, IGES, STEP, ACIS, Parasolid, SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, NX, CATIA, Inventor, JT, Rhino, ECAD, and SketchUp.  
• Get the CAD team started with an accurate solid model and improve communication of design intent.
• Specify ECOs directly on CAD models with SpaceClaim’s 3D markup environment that tracks changes automatically.
• Use SpaceClaim’s .NET API (application programming interface) to integrate homegrown tools with SpaceClaim’s modern UI.  

  

SpaceClaim offers the freedom and flexibility for conceptual engineers to design freely,
unencumbered by the complexity of traditional CAD systems.