Moving from 2D design to 3D CAD opens a door to a host of new productivity tools that users can take advantage of to improve the way they design and manufacture new products. Visualizing designs in 3D vastly improves abilities in communicating design ideas, facilitating design collaboration and obtaining customer sign-offs on proposed designs.
Creating 3D rendered design images also greatly improves the ability of designers and engineers to check for interferences and collisions between parts—long before they ever reside in physical form, speeding time to market and cutting prototyping costs. Lastly, being able to work in 3D also makes the leap to manufacturing seamless.