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Making shadows show 3D objects is very hard work. In fact, it becomes a matter of interpretation. Little groups of people huddling over sheets of 2D drawings trying to figure out what the designer was trying to convey is a commonplace event in the boardroom, the sales office, the customer’s conference room, and the shop floor. Nearly 70% of all design is still done in 2D. But trying to convey intelligent information about a 3D object using a 2D drawing is just about like you trying to convey what you look like by using your shadow. YOU know what you look like. That other person only has a vague idea. All right, so that’s oversimplified. But the truth is, the more complex the product, the greater the difficulty in conveying all necessary information about it via 2D drawings. It takes lots and lots of them.

3D design is a natural way to work for designers. Working with a design in 3D that’s shaded or rendered makes concept work easy. And when you’re fitting components into a mechanical assembly, working in a visual mode makes the job much easier. Fitment problems and maintaining clearances are easier to resolve. Quick, flexible construction at the conceptual stage and associative updating as the design progresses into the final stages results in a design that you know will work.

3D objects cast shadows naturally. Working with 3D data, it’s not only easy to convey what your product looks like in a realistic way, but you can automatically cast those 2D shadows that you’ll still get asked for – in ISO, DIN, ANSI, JIS and KS standards.

Manufacturing to a 2D drawing compared to using 3D design data is hard work. It’s really hard to produce a part on a 5-axis milling machine from a drawing. 3D is ready to go.

Let us help you. Our UK customers design and manufacture contact lenses, tooling, jigs, fixtures, press tools, oil field equipment, speed cameras, light aircraft, instrumentation, wind turbines, process equipment, labelling machines, printing equipment, medical equipment, automotive components, forgings, agricultural machinery, houses, office furniture and equipment, architectural products, specialty tubing products, horse saddles, defence equipment, switchgear, building products, lighting, inspection equipment, machine tools, tents, buttons, calendaring rolls, aircraft components, cameras, membrane switches, and every kind of moulded product imaginable. Our aim is not to sell you a CAD system, but to help apply KeyCreator’s brilliant 3D solid and surface modelling toolset to your design and manufacturing tasks.

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