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Autodesk Solutions: Let us make your problem our challenge!

IDS Engineering provides the expertise you need to solve your toughest challenges. Our value as an engineering firm means that you receive a broad range of technical expertise to help adopt the right technology-enabled solutions and discover innovative business models. IDS has expanded its capabilities through working in partnership with Autodesk® and is equipped with the knowledge and resources to overcome any obstacle.

Case Study One

WireCrafters®, the nation’s leading provider of wire partitions, offer a significantly versatile product line to keep up with its ever changing customer demands.

Early on, WireCrafters discovered that the practice of translating customer specifications into AutoCAD drawings can be extremely repetitive. This revelation drove internal development of an innovative AutoCAD-based application to facilitate automation of the design process. Although the resulting codebase provided solid functionality, it was relatively complex and built upon an outdated development platform. WireCrafters wanted to strengthen the performance capabilities of their application. However, without adequate software engineering resources available internally, positioning the application to address current and future needs represented a considerable challenge.

WireCrafters turned to IDS Engineering for its expertise in custom AutoCAD application development. IDS then re-engineered the existing application and incorporated several key enhancements including functionality that integrates part component information synchronization within the design revision workflow. This reduced the time necessary to generate and maintain engineering drawings and improved overall consistency. The IDS solution broadened the capabilities of the WireCrafters custom application process; helping WireCrafters achieve enhanced manufacturing quality through a reduction in errors and increased workflow efficiency.

Case Study Two

Maintaining a large library of viewable versions of engineering drawings is a common concern for manufacturers. Our client, a leader in stretch wrapping technologies, developed their own solution for viewable document creation to meet today’s demand for increasingly complex custom projects.

The first component of this solution was an application developed to automatically create viewable documents when AutoCAD® drawings were developed or changed. While this method proved a viable solution initially, over time the volume of documents expanded. Later, as part of the transition to a 3D design process, an Autodesk Inventor® add-in was implemented to maintain viewables each time a 3D model was saved. While workable, this process proved to be quite resource intensive.

The company decided to approach IDS Engineering for expert assistance in developing a highly reliable application that would provide customer specific viewable formatting and a streamlined workflow. IDS developed a professionally engineered application platform that allowed the client to completely automate the creation of viewable documents. Leveraging automation techniques for such manually intensive tasks reduced the amount of oversight necessary to maintain a viewable document library and eliminated the need for engineers to create viewables for 3D models. This is just one example of how IDS can re-engineer existing processes to provide consistency that makes it easy for clients to deliver world-class results to their customers.

 

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