PRODUCT DESIGN SOFTWARE
Innovate your product line in record time
Innovate your product line in record time
Accelerate growth and stay ahead of the competition with product design software from Autodesk.
Uncover customer insights. Outpace the competition.
Uncover customer insights. Outpace the competition.
Designing complex equipment, components, industrial products, consumer, and specialty products requires a mature approach to design engineering. Autodesk product design software can help you balance innovation with customer needs while balancing expanded offerings with the time it takes to bring those offerings to life.
Read how industry leaders develop an agile approach with Autodesk to uncover powerful insights, respond to opportunities quicker, and deliver products their customers love.
Designing complex equipment, components, industrial products, consumer, and specialty products requires a mature approach to design engineering. Autodesk product design software can help you balance innovation with customer needs while balancing expanded offerings with the time it takes to bring those offerings to life.
Read how industry leaders develop an agile approach with Autodesk to uncover powerful insights, respond to opportunities quicker, and deliver products their customers love.
Transform your business with product design software
Accelerate quality
Accelerate quality
Design with efficiency and eliminate the disconnect with manufacturing to turn concepts into profitable, quality products for your customers.
Design with efficiency and eliminate the disconnect with manufacturing to turn concepts into profitable, quality products for your customers.
Move with agility
Move with agility
Respond rapidly to data insights and stakeholder feedback, fast-tracking concept designs from prototype to desirable product.
Respond rapidly to data insights and stakeholder feedback, fast-tracking concept designs from prototype to desirable product.
Boost desirability
Boost desirability
Incorporate insight from colleagues and customers with integrated data management that helps you track changes rapidly and accurately.
Incorporate insight from colleagues and customers with integrated data management that helps you track changes rapidly and accurately.
Innovate rapidly
Innovate rapidly
Create innovation capacity, design smart products, and add service offerings—all while saving time on physical prototype requirements.
Create innovation capacity, design smart products, and add service offerings—all while saving time on physical prototype requirements.
Drive breakthrough innovation with CAD for product design
Model-based definition (MBD)
Shorten time to market—without reducing quality—by including all geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) symbols and data, materials, engineering configurations, and more, right in your 3D model.
Shorten time to market—without reducing quality—by including all geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) symbols and data, materials, engineering configurations, and more, right in your 3D model.
Design automation
Automate repetitive tasks and free up your design and engineering teams to focus on innovating breakthrough products, all while minimizing errors. Then scale everything up to accelerate downstream development processes.
Automate repetitive tasks and free up your design and engineering teams to focus on innovating breakthrough products, all while minimizing errors. Then scale everything up to accelerate downstream development processes.
Simulation
Minimize physical prototypes and test ideas before you make them with a wide range of simulation tools. Uncover powerful, data-driven insights that help you identify the best ways to design and build better products.
Minimize physical prototypes and test ideas before you make them with a wide range of simulation tools. Uncover powerful, data-driven insights that help you identify the best ways to design and build better products.
Manufacturing documentation
Automate product documentation and manufacturing data for bills of materials (BOM), nesting, CAM toolpaths, and more—in a single software environment—to accelerate downstream processes and improve time to market.
Automate product documentation and manufacturing data for bills of materials (BOM), nesting, CAM toolpaths, and more—in a single software environment—to accelerate downstream processes and improve time to market.
Manufacturing process automation
Unlock powerful automated CAM workflows and CNC toolpaths for both simple and complex geometries with comprehensive support for 2 & 3-axis, 3+2, 4 & 5-axis milling, as well as additive, subtractive, and hybrid manufacturing.
Unlock powerful automated CAM workflows and CNC toolpaths for both simple and complex geometries with comprehensive support for 2 & 3-axis, 3+2, 4 & 5-axis milling, as well as additive, subtractive, and hybrid manufacturing.
Product lifecycle management (PLM)
Increase development agility, reduce non-value-add processes, and improve product quality with powerful tools that connect people, processes, and data within a single, secure data model that you can audit and control.
Increase development agility, reduce non-value-add processes, and improve product quality with powerful tools that connect people, processes, and data within a single, secure data model that you can audit and control.
Design for manufacture (DFM)
Bridge the gap between design and manufacturing. By considering manufacturing processes, materials, and constraints during the design phase, your teams can reduce errors, production time, costs, and overall time to market.
Bridge the gap between design and manufacturing. By considering manufacturing processes, materials, and constraints during the design phase, your teams can reduce errors, production time, costs, and overall time to market.
Prototyping
Investigate as many design options as possible before incurring large expenses. Then deliver your most promising ideas to fabricators quickly and easily, with open lines of communication both inside and outside your organization.
Investigate as many design options as possible before incurring large expenses. Then deliver your most promising ideas to fabricators quickly and easily, with open lines of communication both inside and outside your organization.
Consumer product design
Lean into agile development workflows to collaborate with teams and collect feedback from real customers. Then imagine, design, manufacture, and deliver smarter, more beautiful products that keep you ahead of the competition.
Lean into agile development workflows to collaborate with teams and collect feedback from real customers. Then imagine, design, manufacture, and deliver smarter, more beautiful products that keep you ahead of the competition.
Product design software
Stay up to date on product design best practices
Deliver more value with agile development
Deliver more value with agile development
In today’s competitive product marketplace, more of your peers are taking a page from the software world and adopting agile development processes. Discover how product manufacturers are seeking new ways to deliver greater value to their customers.
In today’s competitive product marketplace, more of your peers are taking a page from the software world and adopting agile development processes. Discover how product manufacturers are seeking new ways to deliver greater value to their customers.
View design and engineering webinars
View design and engineering webinars
Learn from Autodesk experts about product design and engineering tips, tricks, and best practices. View our extensive library of webinars to learn how you can establish new processes for product innovation, take your designs from good to great, and prepare for what’s next in your industry.
Learn from Autodesk experts about product design and engineering tips, tricks, and best practices. View our extensive library of webinars to learn how you can establish new processes for product innovation, take your designs from good to great, and prepare for what’s next in your industry.
Explore the latest trends in consumer electronics
Explore the latest trends in consumer electronics
The world’s leading consumer electronics companies are tackling sustainability challenges with new design approaches. Explore the reasons for their focus, the challenges they face, and the approaches that have worked for them.
The world’s leading consumer electronics companies are tackling sustainability challenges with new design approaches. Explore the reasons for their focus, the challenges they face, and the approaches that have worked for them.
Accelerate product development breakthroughs with help from Autodesk
Talk to a sales representative about how a more agile approach with Autodesk product design solutions can help you design your next product line.
Talk to a sales representative about how a more agile approach with Autodesk product design solutions can help you design your next product line.
Accelerate product development breakthroughs with help from Autodesk
Talk to a sales representative about how a more agile approach with Autodesk product design solutions can help you design your next product line.
Talk to a sales representative about how a more agile approach with Autodesk product design solutions can help you design your next product line.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on product design software
A product is an item manufactured to benefit your customers. Your services can also be referred to as your product. Nowadays, many "smart" products merge physical items with internet-connected digital services, which offer ongoing value to the customer beyond the physical item's value.
Product design is the process of imagining, creating, and iterating on solutions that solve problems for customers in commercial sectors like industrial machinery or automotive manufacturing, or directly for the public in sectors such as consumer products.
The product design process begins with research to understand the market and customer needs. Designers use knowledge, empathy, and creativity to conceptualize solutions.
Hand sketches, prototypes, technical drawings, and 3D models are created to communicate and review the proposed product design solution and to coordinate the design process among stakeholders. Further prototyping is used to test and validate concept designs with real customers.
The final output is a product requirements document, specification, technical drawing, and visuals. Typically, product designers work with design engineers to develop concept designs ready for manufacturing.
Jobs in product design could include design manager, industrial designer, product designer, UI/UX designer, graphic designer, animation designer, design engineer, technical designer, design drafter, CAD designer, and CAD operator.
Product designers use research, creativity, and empathy to understand customers' problems and propose a product that fulfills their needs.
The concept must meet customer requirements and be delivered profitably. Product designers work with marketing and business strategy teams to make decisions on which product concepts to develop. Product designers work on the successful concepts with engineering teams to fully develop the design, and with marketing teams to launch the product.
The concept design is shared with various stakeholders, including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution, using images and prototypes. To conceptualize the design, 3D CAD models can be employed, and these models are often repurposed by the engineering team during the product development process.
Product design is a highly collaborative process, including multiple disciplines from business strategy and marketing to engineering and manufacturing. The design process includes feedback from customers, suppliers, sales, manufacturing specialists, and project managers.