What is cad integration?

The CAD integration allows you to edit document-based structures using a CAD interface, both in the CAD system and from the SAP system. This enables you to manage the CAD files directly in SAP and leverage the design information (3 D-geometric, drawings, bill of materials, ...) for following processes like costing, sourcing, manufacturing, etc.

Normally the CAD integration takes care of transferring necessary structure from CAD to SAP, eg: once arrived at a development milestone, you transfer your EBOM to SAP, CAD integration creates equivalent Document structure (DMS documents) and then EBOM(materials)....

Then you can open CDESK transaction to manage your objects within SAP and CAD.

The CAD integration allows you to edit document-based structures using a CAD interface, both in the CAD system and from the SAP system

 Integration of CAD and CAM is called as CAD/CAM. In the earlier days the CAD and CAM were considered to be two distinct technologies ...

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If they are not integrated then CAD data will need to be exported or imported into a CAM compatible format. Integration avoids this, allowing you to avoid several problems:

For example, tool length and width compensation works best when both the design component and the manufacturing component deal with it in an integrated manner. Management overhead - you now have multiple format versions of each job to create, back up, load and store, and you'll need to keep both in sync.

All the products that have to be then manufactured, have to be designed first and they are sent for manufacturing. Let us see the important processes involved in CAD/CAM integration:

1) Designing of the product: First of all the product has to be designed by considering the applications desired from it and carrying out various stress and strain analysis. All these processes are carried out in the computers using appropriate CAD software. At the end of the designing process the product of appropriate shape and size is found designed.

2) Making the drawings: After designing the product, the assembly drawings and parts drawings of the product have to be made. These drawings are used for the reference purposes and more importantly for manufacturing the product on production shop floor. The drawings are also made by using CAD software.

3) Production planning and scheduling: The production planning and scheduling of the designed product can be carried out in the computers, which helps properly managing the manufacturing resources. There are some special product planning and scheduling software that can be used for this application. This is the CAM part of the product cycle.