The CAD industry has exploded with a slew of AI assistants, co-pilots and text-to-geometry generators, but which are worth using? CAD journalist Ralph Grabowski runs some of the top contenders through their paces.
PTC’s Onshape uses its cloud-native CAD platform to help engineers build reusable tools for common design tasks. Features include live collaboration, automatic design history and AI-assisted FeatureScript development.
Large aluminum castings (HPDC) introduce manufacturing variability that can change crash behavior and expose failure modes missed by conventional homogeneous material models.
