• Mechanical Design
• Virtual Prototyping
• Visualization Presentation Graphics
• Software Deployment / Workflow Design / Training
Design has the power to influence your client’s purchasing decisions. In today’s market, the pressure to create innovative designs that address both form and function in a quick and timely manner is key to your success. Mechanix can get you there.
We interface directly with a network of Fabricators, Rapid Prototypers and CNC Machining organizations throughout North America. Because of our affiliations, Mechanix has technical knowledge and experience in a spectrum of mechanical areas from miniature assembly fixtures to large industrial machinery.
Mechanix uses Autodesk Inventor® as its design foundation. This program helps you visualize, simulate, and analyze how designs will work under real-world conditions prior to production of your product or part.
Skeletal Modeling allows Mechanix to offer maximum efficiency, accuracy and flexibility in your design model. This methodology makes it easy to reuse design data, convey design intent, and work with fully associative models to make sure any changes to the part design are accurately reflected in the assembly model and drawing files.
Whether you require 2D drawings, 3D models, rapid prototypes, or a final product, we can provide a solution which meets your time and financial parameters. Mechanix has the tools, creativity and craftsmanship to maximize your design - from initial sketch to finished product.
In today’s market, manufacturers strive to reduce design cycles and costs. Mechanix Designs offers Virtual Prototyping as a way to cost-effectively validate your designs for form, fit and function and get your product to market as fast as possible.
In the innovation phases, virtual prototyping can enable you to efficiently experiment with ideas and explore several design iterations. High quality virtual models can be created and evaluated at any point in the design.
Mechanix Designs will help you make virtual prototyping your competitive advantage.
Starting from an idea, napkin sketch, or an existing solution in need of improvement, we can redesign and analyze components using Finite Element Analysis, Discrete Element Modeling and Kinematic Analysis. Designs can be optimized to provide unique solutions in function, efficiency, economics and aesthetics, all without the need for costly physical production and testing.
Additionally, Mechanix will catch errors early, before physical prototypes or production begins, so accurate, informed and effective designs decisions can be made. This increases efficiencies in dollars and time by reducing costly design changes that are typically only discovered after a design is sent to manufacture.
Mechanix can create anything you can imagine by putting powerful virtual prototyping technology within your reach.
The benefits are obvious in using high quality imagery for clear, efficient and persuasive communication. Visualization can help you evaluate design options, elicit responses, communicate intent and analyze concepts with stakeholders in your design. Mechanix will help you tell your story clearly and effectively in order to sell ideas and fast track projects that require immediate design review decisions.
Mechanix will help you build a portfolio of photorealistic renderings and animations that clearly demonstrate what the product will look like and how it will perform after manufacture. Realistic materials such as paint, glass, and leather can be applied to a model, bringing your idea to life. These visual assets are valuable for use in marketing materials, stakeholder presentations, product placement, material and finish selection, motion analysis and even lighting studies.
Mechanix makes your ideas real by providing the visualization aids that foster understanding, facilitate communication and build confidence in your design.
With vast experience in the implementation, deployment and use of Autodesk Inventor® and Vault®, Mechanix will provide dynamic, scalable solutions to complex design tool and data management issues. Implementing a process to manage and track all design components will help you better organize, find and reuse critical design data and manage bills of materials to promote earlier collaboration with manufacturing teams and clients.
We can analyze current Inventor® or Vault® workflows and contrast them against your organization’s goals. This allows us to collaberate with your design team to create workflows which use the software to reach your end result. Whether you require Vault® implementation and support or a solution to a particular workflow problem, Mechanix can deliver.
Mechanix offers customized training by an Autodesk Certified Expert to maximize your investment in Inventor® and Vault®. We can help your designers develop skills and workflows to make the most of the 3D environment so full efficiency is attained throughout the design process. Training can accommodate all skill levels - to shorten learning time for new users while enabling experienced users to work more quickly and efficiently.
We will individualize how your team receives information on procedures and tools while providing the latest tips and tricks your team needs to stay productive. Training can help your team realize significant increases in productivity, especially with the core design tools that you use daily.
Mechanix can share expertise in Autodesk product use and implementation to help your team build tools for success.