The industrial design process is very different from the traditional mechanical design process.\u00a0 Industrial design is all about form<\/strong>, mechanical design is all about function<\/em>.\u00a0 Great products merge these two disciplines without compromising them.<\/p>\n SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer is all about enabling our customers to develop innovative industrial design quickly and easily. Industrial designers are tasked to create multiple shapes and concepts that evoke an emotional response in a matter of hours, so the tools they need to create, render and share have to be intuitive, flexible and\u00a0 accessible 24\/7 from anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n With SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer you have a full suite of industrial design tools. From rapidly capturing your ideas with concept sketching, to fleshing out a concept in 3D using freeform bodies through to quick photo realistic rendering, SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer delivers all the tools an industrial designer requires in one package.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. The cloud accelerates the design process.<\/strong><\/p>\n SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer is more than just CAD software, it uses online tools, \u2018the cloud\u2019 and services to accelerate the design process.\u00a0 These online tools deliver transparent data management, online collaborative spaces and project communities.<\/p>\n With SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer \u201ctransparent\u201d means that the design data management is \u201cinvisible\u201d to the user\u2014operating in the background ensuring the design is safe and secure.\u00a0 With the data stored on the cloud, as opposed to a shared network drive, the data can easily be accessed 24hrs a day from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.<\/p>\n Collaboration with SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE solutions comes in two flavours, co-design collaboration and community co-review.\u00a0 Co-design is enabled through online collaborative spaces where the project design data is stored.\u00a0 This data is accessible to the whole design team, not just SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer users, via secure invitation.\u00a0 Co-review occurs through sharing design data and collaborating on a design project.\u00a0 By setting up an online community, design team leaders users can invite colleagues, suppliers and customers to comment upon the designs and guide the project at anytime from anywhere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The cloud enables SOLIDWORKS users to collaborate when they want, where they want and with whom they want, 24\/7.\u00a0 Designs no longer have to wait for everyone to be in the office to move forward, the cloud accelerates design.<\/p>\n Currently the \u2018cloud\u2019 is hosted on the Dassault Syst\u00e8mes cloud infrastructure. Hosting on a private cloud behind your company\u2019s firewall is not possible with this release, but may be in the future.<\/p>\n 3. It\u2019s complementary to your existing SOLIDWORKS products<\/strong><\/p>\n No design happens in a vacuum, outside influences constrain a design\u2019s shape and form.\u00a0 For you these constraints maybe the environment the product has to work in, or it might be an existing set of CAD geometry you have to work around.<\/p>\n As you would expect coming from SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer is aimed at complementing your existing designs and workflows.\u00a0 Using SOLIDWORKS data inside of SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer is easy and vice versa. Take a look at the video below to see how they work together<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/ski_poles_-_rendered_2.png\")
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