Is Evolve The Tool For Me?

Altair Forum User

Greetings,

 

Spent literally a couple of hours on the website being absolutely blown away by this program. I watched every video at least twice, and viewed every image.

 

I'm coming back into CAD after a fairly long hiatus. I'm a prior AutoCAD guy, dabbled in in SolidWorks and had a stint with MasterCAM for rapid prototyping aluminum castings, but clearly the world has changed in a big way. Wow.

 

I've started a new company where I need to be the one to develop the model, 3D print the prototype parts and molds for some elastomer parts I'll need to make, and produce real looking visuals.

 

Is Evolve all I need, or will I need to export the model to test assemblies for motion functionality/interference, animation of the parts, create photo-realistic renderings, etc. Is Evolve really doing all those renderings itself?

 

 

If you use external programs with Evolve, what are they, and how do they compliment it? Trying to figure out what I'll need and how much ching doing what I want will really cost me...

 

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Thanks,

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Darren_Chilton

Hello and welcome back to the CAD world.  Glad to hear of your interest in Evolve.

 

Yes, Evolve has its own built-in rendering and animation tools.  You may or may not need to use an external program for testing.  It just depends on the level of testing you are looking to accomplish.  I would be happy to have a look at the type of work you are doing to give you a better answer.

 

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

 

Thanks,