The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, allowing a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits of Digital Prototyping. Through comprehensive training and support, Total CAD Systems, Inc. helps you leverage digital prototyping to make great products.

Autodesk® Product Design Suite 2012 software is a comprehensive set of design, visualization, and simulation software. It provides the designers and engineers who are responsible for creating remarkable products the flexibility to innovate and ability to more easily respond to changing business requirements. With greater access to compatible tools for sketching, surfacing, modeling, drawing, simulating, tooling, rendering, animating, and data management, users are empowered to create spectacular products. From early design concepts to detailed engineering and simulation the Autodesk Product Design Suite is an ideal Digital Prototyping solution for your entire product design workflow.

Autodesk® Factory Design Suite 2012 is a 2D & 3D factory layout and optimization solution that helps you make better layout decisions by creating a digital model of your factory. It provides tools for optimizing 2D layouts for efficient material flow, integrating 2D layout data with 3D models of machine and facility components, and 3D factory-specific visualization and analysis to help teams make better layout decisions before any equipment is installed. Only Factory Design Suite offers unique factory-specific functionality in AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor and combines them with powerful visualization and analysis tools that can help foster greater collaboration, flexibility, and innovation when responding to changing business requirements.

Autodesk® Inventor LT™ software allows you to adopt 3D mechanical part design—at the pace that’s right for you. When you design using 3D models of parts, you can increase your productivity, reduce the risk of errors, and improve communication with customers and partners. You’ll be able to compete more effectively as you move towards Digital Prototyping.

The AutoCAD® Inventor LT™ Suite includes both Autodesk® Inventor LT™ and AutoCAD LT® software, helping make it more practical and affordable for mechanical design professionals to start adding the productivity benefits of 3D, participate in Digital Prototyping workflows and compete more effectively. Inventor LT offers powerful part-level 3D parametric modeling, multi-CAD translation capabilities, automated DWG™ drawing views and other capabilities found in Autodesk Inventor. Inventor LT is interoperable with the included version of AutoCAD LT, one of the world’s top 2D drafting and detailing software, so manufacturers can still work confidently with real DWG data and help boost their 2D productivity.

AutoCAD® Mechanical is AutoCAD® software for manufacturing, purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. It includes all the functionality of AutoCAD, a world leader in CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating mechanical engineering tasks, such as generating machine components, dimensioning, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Mechanical provides a library of more than 700,000 standard parts, supports multiple international design standards, and enables users to detail and document digital prototypes created in Autodesk® Inventor® software. AutoCAD Mechanical offers engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend time innovating rather than drafting.

AutoCAD® Electrical is AutoCAD® software for controls designers, purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems. It contains all the functionality of AutoCAD, the world’s leading CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as building circuits, numbering wires, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Electrical provides a library of more than 650,000 electrical symbols and components, includes real-time error checking, and enables electrical and mechanical teams to collaborate on digital prototypes built with Autodesk® Inventor® software. AutoCAD Electrical offers control engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend more time innovating.

Autodesk® Showcase® real-time 3D presentation and rendering software enables architects, designers, engineers, and managers to quickly and easily transform 3D CAD data into compelling imagery, movies, and immersive presentations that can be used for interactive design reviews, marketing imagery, and sales pitches. Showcase users can bring their designs to life and explore design variations in real time, helping to accelerate the approval loop. The 2012 release features accelerated raytracing, optimized support for Autodesk® Inventor® 2012 software-including Autodesk Materials and animated Inventor constraints-real-time geometry-on-geometry shadows, non-photorealistic effects, "smart" walk-throughs, and task wizards helping simplify common workflows.

Help maximize your company's return on investment in product development by empowering design reuse with the Autodesk® Vault data management software - Autodesk® Vault, Autodesk® Vault Workgroup, Autodesk® Vault Collaboration, and Autodesk® Vault Professional. The Autodesk Vault product family helps engineering workgroups manage design, simulation, and documentation data and processes. Save time organizing models, files and drawings. Control and manage change processes to avoid costly mistakes in order to efficiently release and revise designs. Vault data management software can be deployed as a standard configuration or tailored to unique requirements, enabling users to become productive more quickly, providing a faster return on investment.

Autodesk® Inventor® Publisher is innovative, easy-to-use software for creating and sharing highly-visual and interactive 2D and 3D technical documentation that explains and differentiates your products. Inventor Publisher extends the power of Digital Prototyping beyond engineering, making it easy for anyone to work directly with 3D CAD data to create animated assembly instructions, operating procedures, repair instructions, and more. You can even publish to iPhone® and iPad™ mobile devices - so your customers have the instructions they need, right at their fingertips. Inventor Publisher can help you increase competitive advantage by reducing documentation and service costs, accelerating time to market, and delivering a superior customer experience.