ThinkStation Industry: Manufacturing/Design

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features in AutoCAD^® 2012 software, one of the world's leading 2D and 3D CAD design tools certified to run on Lenovo ThinkStation workstations. Explore ideas more intuitively in 3D, speed documentation, share ideas seamlessly and customize AutoCAD for your specific needs. With new and updated tools for 3D conceptual design, model documentation and reality capture, AutoCAD 2012 software helps design professionals maximize productivity.

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Powerful functionality and customized tools allow each type of AutoCAD software to assist with projects across building, infrastructure, product, factory, plant, and other types of design. One of the best ways to purchase AutoCAD is in the new Autodesk Design Suites. These cost-effective, fully integrated packages include AutoCAD plus a range of specialized tools for conceptual design, analysis, and visual communication. Compare AutoCAD products.

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Lenovo ThinkStation computers are certified to run Autodesk^® Inventor^® 3D CAD software products, which offer a comprehensive, flexible set of software for 3D mechanical design, product simulation, tooling, creation and design communication. Combined with a Lenovo ThinkStation workstation, Inventor takes you beyond 3D to digital prototyping by enabling you to produce an accurate 3D model that can help you design, visualize and simulate your products before they are built. Learn more about digital prototyping with AutoCAD Inventor.

Digital prototyping helps companies design better products, reduce development costs and get to market faster. For a more comprehensive digital prototyping solution, the Autodesk^® Product Design Suite provides tools for the product design workflow process including Autodesk^® Inventor^®, AutoCAD^® Mechanical, Autodesk^® Alias^® Design, 3ds Max Design, Autodesk^® Vault, Autodesk^® SketchBook^® Designer, Autodesk^® Showcase^®, and Autodesk^® Mudbox^™ software products.

The Autodesk^® Revit^® Architecture building design software is certified to run on the dual-processor Lenovo ThinkStation. Together, Revit and Lenovo ThinkStation workstations help architects and designers develop higher quality, more accurate architectural designs. Built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk Revit Architecture helps you capture and analyze concepts and maintain your vision through design, documentation, and construction. Make more informed decisions with information-rich models to support sustainable design, construction planning, and fabrication. Automatic updates keep your designs and documentation coordinated and more reliable. Learn more about Autodesk Revit.

CATIA is Dassault Systémes pioneer brand and the world's leading solution for product design and innovation—and is certified on Lenovo ThinkStation computers. Several thousands companies in multiple industries worldwide rely on the Virtual Design capabilities of CATIA to ensure success of their products. Combined with the powerful performance of Lenovo ThinkStation workstations, CATIA delivers solutions for enterprises, from large OEMs through their supply chains, to small and mid-sized businesses.
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SolidWorks solutions running on Lenovo ThinkStation workstations enable you and your team to quickly transform new ideas into great products. Its intuitive interface and powerful design capabilities drive smarter, faster product development that powers your company's success. Easy-to-use yet powerful toolsets, clear communication of design information, virtual prototyping, and quick generation of manufacturing-ready drawings and data give you the distinct advantage in a competitive market.

Maximize your productivity and performance today by choosing a SolidWorks-certified desktop or mobile workstation from Lenovo.
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Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER) is tailored for 3D product design, featuring state-of-the-art productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Integrated, parametric, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solutions allow you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products.

By investing in a Lenovo ThinkStation system and Creo Elements/Pro, you gain the proven performance of PTC's industry-leading design solution and full compatibility with Creo. Learn more about PTC Creo Elements/Pro.

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Creo Elements/Direct (formerly CoCreate) is a complete design environment, offering 3D CAD and 2D CAD, CAE and integrated product data management (PDM). Creo Elements/Direct provides a direct approach to 3D CAD software design, while delivering speed, flexibility, and responsiveness to change for customers facing short design cycles, one-off product designs and lightweight design processes.

By investing in a Lenovo ThinkStation computer and Creo Elements/Direct, you gain the proven performance benefits of PTC's industry-leading direct modeling technology and full compatibility with Creo, the design software solution for improved productivity. What's more, all current CoCreate 2D and 3D data are also fully compatible with the Creo product family. Learn more about PTC Creo Elements/Direct.

Siemens NX is a next-generation digital product development system that helps companies transform the product lifecycle. When combined with a Lenovo ThinkStation workstation, Siemens NX delivers a full suite of integrated, fully associative CAD/CAM/CAE applications that touch the full range of development processes—from product design, to manufacturing, to simulation. NX provides a complete suite of integrated process automation tools to enable companies to capture and reuse product and process knowledge, encouraging the use of corporate best practices.

With the increased complexity of today's product development cycles, Siemens NX users need the power and reliability of a workstation platform that includes Error Code Correcting (ECC) memory to prevent data loss due to memory failure, and powerful Intel^® Xeon^® processors to ensure uninterrupted development of mission-critical projects. Learn more about Siemens NX.

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