Consumer Products Solutions
Innovate with design tools and additive manufacturing
Technology & Process Solutions
The SOLIDWORKS integrated product portfolio covers modeling, simulation, visualization, communication, and manufacturing that designers need for developing better products, faster.
Our solutions allow Consumer Product designers to:
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Go from Concept Design to Finshed Product
SOLIDWORKS offers an integrated solution for concept design to manufactured product. Today, developing consumer products requires tools beyond the ability to generate great looking designs—they also must perform properly and be less expensive to manufacture.
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Work Seamlessly with Your Design Teams
The SOLIDWORKS portfolio of products is comprised of complementary tools that guarantee designs created in any application can be opened, edited, and updated, ensuring that no time or effort is lost when moving from design to simulation and manufacturing.
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Collaborate and Share Your Designs
SOLIDWORKS delivers a design experience focused on creating innovative products in a connected and truly collaborative environment, with solutions that help you develop, review, and select concepts before committing to detailed design and manufacturing.
Additive Manufacturing Solutions
In the competitive world of consumer products, having an in-house 3D printing capabilities enhances collaboration, reduces time to market, and helps protect your innovative ideas until launch.
Our additive solutions help Consumer Product designers to:
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Get to market faster
Get to market faster than the competition with speedier design cycles. Go from design to prototyping in hours, not days. Blaze through product improvement with rapid prototype revisions
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Innovate
Allows product designers to produce any form they can imagine, in real space and time. Then test and revise at will.
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Simplify Workflow
Get better results by removing steps and complexity from your workflow. By producing full-scale prototypes straight from CAD design, your design reviews go smoother with hands-on consumer insight that is more informed.
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Customize Models
Win customers by building products around more specific consumer wants and needs. Efficiently design and create products for the unique fit, performance and aesthetics consumers demand.
Technology for Consumer Products Design
Drive innovation and connectivity with SOLIDWORKS software
SOLIDWORKS® solutions provide a powerful toolset that bridges the gaps between industrial design and manufacturing. By providing powerful sketching tools and advanced surfacing capabilities, you can transition easily from design to finished product faster and with better product performance.
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software delivers powerful design functionality with an intuitive user interface to speed your design process and instantly productive.
Customer Example
Innovative Child Safety Product design with SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer
After using SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer, IE+D realized important productivity gains related to better collaboration between industrial design and mechanical engineering.
IE+D help startups and manufacturers maximize their return on investment.
Consumer Products Process Management
Communicate and collaborate with your team and suppliers
Reduce the time and expense required to manage, archive, and track design documentation and cost-effectively automate documentation to securely archive and organize multiple versions of projects.
SOLIDWORKS PDM
SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) products manage and synchronize your design data across your entire enterprise with a single solution
Additive Manufacturing Consumer Products Solutions
Advanced materials and techniques for prototyping
Overview
Designers, engineers, sales and marketing staff all utilize 3D printed prototypes to better communicate the products aesthetics and performance.
Before a Trek bicycle speeds you down the road or a Black & Decker tool helps you improve your home, these products are ideas in the minds of designers and engineers. Prototyping gives them form and makes perfection possible.
The quickest way to get accurate prototypes is with 3D printing. Watch the video below to learn how it makes product design faster and better, and designers more confident.
3D Printing Technologies
3D printing allows consumer product manufacturers to test for fit, form and function and in some cases test their designs in real world conditions.
Realistic appearance models are achieved with Stratasys PolyJet 3D printers which work with an extensive array of materials which include clear, flexible, rigid, rubber-like and with a full spectrum of vibrant colours. Make your design reviews and focus-group sessions more productive with lifelike prototypes.
When you need to build your prototypes in the same materials as your finished product, Stratasys offer patented FDM technology. FDM printers work with material such as ABSi, PC, PC-ABS and Nylon 12 to name a few. Perform advanced functional testing for early safety approvals such a CSA and UL. Save time and money by prototyping early in the design process
Additive Manufacturing Machines & Materials
Stratasys 3D Printing gets consumer products created faster
Stratasys PolyJet 3D Printers and materials improve communication and collaboration because they produce amazingly accurate representations of your consumer products that you can share with your team and your clients for a faster, more confident buy-in.
FDM Nylon-CF10
Stratasys FDM Nylon-CF10 is a composite material combining a blended nylon polymer with chopped carbon fiber enhancing strength and rigidity
Stratasys Origin One
Stratasys Origin One 3D Printer for mass production of end-use parts from high-performance polymer materials with Photopolymerization technology.
Stratasys H350
Stratasys H350 plastic powder bed fusion 3D printer produces accurate, production-grade parts with best-in-class consistency.
Stratasys F770
Print big with the Stratasys F770™ large format 3D printer. 3D printing large, complex parts is now more affordable, reliable and easy.
ABS-CF10
Stratasys ABS-CF10 combines standard ABS 3D printing material with 10% chopped carbon fiber, 50% stiffer and 15% stronger than standard ABS
Stratasys J55
The Stratasys J55 3D printer offers designers with unparalleled full colour part realism, in an office or studio environment, at an affordable price.
Stratasys J826
Based on J850 technology, the Stratasys J826 supplies the same end-to-end solution for the design process and ultra-realistic models at a lower price point.
DraftGrey
Stratasys DraftGrey is a rigid PolyJet 3D printing material used exclusively with the Super High Speed print mode for concept modeling.
Stratasys J850 / J835 / J826
The Stratasys J8 Series 3D printers deliver full PANTONE colour capability including texture mapping and colour gradients for realistic prototyping.
VeroFlex
Stratasys VeroFlex rigid photopolymer material offers a flexibility for rapid prototyping eyewear. Get realistic prototypes in a wide range of colours and textures
Simulated Polypropylene (Rigur & Durus)
Rigur & Durus are advanced simulated polypropylene materials for 3D printing precision prototypes. Both offer durability and beautiful surface finish.
PC-ABS
PC-ABS is a high-impact engineering thermoplastic with heat resistance ideal for functional prototyping, tooling and low-volume manufacturing
PC (polycarbonate)
PC (polycarbonate) material is widely used in automotive, aerospace, medical and many other applications. PC offers accuracy, durability and stability.
High Temperature (RGD525)
Stratasys High Temperature PolyJet 3D printing material is ideal for thermal testing prototypes that require hot-air or hot-water flow.
FDM Nylon 12
FDM Nylon 12 combines strength with excellent fatigue properties suitable for repetitive closures, snap fits and vibration-resistant parts.
Digital ABS Plus
Digital ABS Plus™ is designed to simulate standard ABS plastics for better impact strength with high-temperature resistance, toughness and superior finish.
Agilus 30
Agilus 30 is a PolyJet Photopolymer 3D printing material with superior tear-resistance, capable of withstanding repeated flexing and bending.
ABSi
ABSi thermoplastic Stratasys 3D printing material is a clear choice for prototypes that mimic the final product. No outsourcing means greater versatility for automotive, aerospace and medical industries.
Additive Manufacturing Applications
How do Consumer Products engineers use 3D printers?
Production End-use Parts
Stratasys 3D Printers are ideal for low production runs as they build the most durable, stable, repeatable on-demand end-use parts in the industry
Why Stratasys 3D Printing for Consumer Products?
Recommended Consumer Products Machine
Objet260 Connex3
Compact Colour Multi-Material 3D Printer
The Objet260 Connex3 is a colour, multi-material 3D printer compact enough for office use, which now makes colour 3D Printing more accessible to a wide variety of users.
Aesthetic & Function Testing
Industrial designers, mechanical engineers, packaging designers, graphic artists and marketing staff all use prototypes to understand a product’s aesthetic and functional appeal. 3D printing gives your idea the speed to match its brilliance.
Create Life Like Prototypes
For prototypes built from production-grade thermoplastics, Stratasys offers patented Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology. FDM 3D printers work with ABS, PC and other thermoplastics, so you can build prototypes from the same material as the finished product. Get your concept off the starter’s block in record time.
Experiment with Different Materials
For astonishingly realistic appearance in a 3D printed model, Stratasys PolyJet 3D printers work with an impressive array of materials including clear, flexible and rigid. Design reviews and focus-group sessions can be more productive with lifelike prototypes.
Expedite prototype tooling for testing
Create prototypes using the same processes and materials as your finished product. At a fraction of the cost of machining, you can 3D print smooth, accurate Digital ABS injection molds, tough polycarbonate forming patterns or detailed casting patterns.
Featured Case Study
3D printed prototypes push a passion for cycling
Trek uses an Objet Multi-material 3D Printer to create prototypes.
Think of your bike. How many materials does it represent? A rigid metal frame, firm rubber tires, soft handlebar grips, a cushioned seat, clear and coloured lenses — a lot of engineering go into a smooth, fast ride.
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