DesignSpark Mechanical 2.0 Portable by llexandro

DesignSpark Mechanical 2.0 Portable



DesignSpark Mechanical, the industry's ultimate free 3D CAD
concept design software for Engineers. Launched by RS Components
and Allied Electronics in collaboration with SpaceClaim
Corporation in September 2013, immediately gaining enormous
uptake in the electronics and industrial sectors. This is due to
it's ingenuine Direct Modeling technology, which makes it so easy
to learn and use and because of the trust Engineers have in RS
Components, when using DesignSpark PCB electronics design
software.

The third important aspect is the standard 3D Printing support.
This unprecedented mix of features made DesignSpark Mechanical a
solid candidate for a part of every Engineering company's
toolchain. This attracted a lot of attention from industry's
journalists and press.

The most prominent feature of DesignSpark is its direct access to
the catalog of 3D models of standard parts from RS Components and
its partners. The feature makes it incredibly easy to download
and insert electrical components (batteries, connectors,
sockets, and so on) into your mechanical design. RS Components
will see returns from its gift when these designs are released to
production. The components specified in the bill of materials
(BOM) are bound to be purchased sooner or later from RS
Components and its partners.

DesignSpark Mechanical supports mostly neutral formats, so you’ll
need to covert your SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, or Creo
models to STL, IGES, STEP, OBJ, or some other accepted files.
Even if it’s a few features short of SpaceClaim, DesignSpark’s
tools and commands are quite robust. They’re enough to let you
design something from scratch or edit a model.

Its makers expect DesignSpark to facilitate collaboration between
mechanical and electrical designer. I can see how the push-pull
modeling tools in DesignSpark can make the job easier, especially
when you must adjust the walls, base plates, and hinges in your
mechanical design to fit an electrical part. The software lets
you move faces, edges, and bosses with little or no concern for
feature history — the backbone of traditional feature-based
modelers that prevents you from making impulsive edits.

The software lets you automatically generate, edit, and insert a
BOM of materials on a chosen drawing plane (or as a floating
chart in 3D view, if you’d like). It also includes a shell
command that easily turns solids into shelled parts, a
particularly handy feature with plastic parts.

The ability to project a cross-sectional view to a sketch plane
will come in handy when mechanical designers need to specify PCB
layout space for electrical designers. The command that lets you
effortlessly create a cross-section at a selected height (for
example, in parallel to the top surface of a connector) saves a
lot of time.

From consumer goods to hybrid vehicles, electrical components now
play an important role in the form and function of products. The
MCAD and ECAD disciplines have worked together, but often in
different modeling programs. An easy-to-use 3D modeler developed
specifically to accommodate electrical components will go along
way to bridge the the disjointed workflow.