Design++ is a rule-based solution infrastructure for design and engineering automation that allows an application development team concentrate on engineering and business rules rather than on software technology. It is specifically tailored to the engineering domain with its ability to integrate and drive CAD and other engineering point solutions.
The Value
For Engineer-to-Order companies that wish to create a sustainable competitive advantage Design++ makes feasible the automation of their unique engineering and design processes. It significantly reduces the solution development effort by minimizing the need for infrastructure development that represents more than 70% of an application.
In addition to significantly improving engineering productivity and quality, a Design++ based solution secures in its knowledge bases a company's unique intellectual engineering assets in a form that is easily perpetuated and maintained in the future. It also re-directs a company's scarce engineering resources from repetitive product re-creation tasks to higher value product development and refinement tasks.
How Does Design++ Work?
A company's product and process experts capture their engineering and design rules into Design++ knowledge bases for automated reuse. The Design++ system supports rule capture with an engineering familiar product structure modeling paradigm.
The components of the hierarchical Design++ models represent assemblies, sub-assemblies and physical parts. Rules live within attributes of these components. In a typical application, rules determine product configuration, engineering related values, dimensioning of parts, their placement, and other geometric properties.
Design++ Dynamic Configurator expands models according to the configuration rules that live in the assembly and subassembly component incorporating only those assemblies, subassemblies and parts that are needed to create a design that meets the provided requirements.
Design++ engineering rules determine the properties of each assembly, sub-assembly, and part to meet the functional requirements of that assembly or part. This includes the proper dimensioning of the parts.
Design++ geometric rules then determine the placement of the parts and render them in an integrated CAD system.
| Bentley Systems, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Product Category | Learning Management Systems (LMS) |
| Product Number | Bentley Design++ V8i |
| Product Name | Bentley Design++ V8i |
