1.1 bestCADsolutions capabilities

1.1.1 Summary
Industry Strengths
 - Expert staff
 - All employees are United States Citizens
 - Non-disclosure agreements in place for all employees and vendors (DOD Warning Banner).
 - Department of Defense, United States Government supplier
 - Supplier to approximately 400 of the Fortune 500 Companies
 - Deliver on time as agreed
 - Customers worldwide
 - Excellent rates
 - Extended office hours (8AM-10PM CDT)
 - Free quotations
 - Multiple payment methods (Purchase Order, check, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover)
 - Vietnam Veteran owned small business

Mechanical Design Services
 - Assembly design
 - Black boxes
 - Class “A” surfacing
 - Component design
 - Data translations
 - Drawing creation, migration
 - Finite Element Analysis (linear, non-linear)
 - Flattening (standard sheet metal and class “A” surfaces)
 - Green Technology - wind, solar, commercial and residential structures
 - Mechanical routing
 - Patent development, drawings search and submittal
 - Sheet metal design
 - Systems design
 - Tool design

Electrical Design Services
 - Aerospace electrical routing
 - Automotive electrical routing
 - Automotive systems design
 - Black boxes
 - Circuit board sizing
 - Consumer products electrical routing
 - Conversions (Mentor Graphics > Unigraphics, API)
 - Formboards (layout, bill of materials, wire lists)
 - Schematic layout and development

CAD Systems
 - Alibre
 - Autodesk products 2000 – 2011
 - CadKey – All versions
 - Catia V4, V5
 - Inventor 10, 11, 12, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
 - Key Creator V4, V5, V6
 - NX, NX2, NX3, NX4, NX5, NX6, NX7, NX7.5
 - ProEngineer Wildfire I, II, III, IV
 - Solid Edge V12, V14, V16, V17, V18, V19, V20, V21, ST1, ST2, ST3
 - SolidWorks Professional 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
 - Unigraphics V17, V18, NX, NX2, NX3, NX4, NX5, NX6, NX7, NX7.5
 - Visio vsd, etc.
***(The above list is dynamic and may not reflect the most current versions)

File Formats Supported
 - ACIS: .sat format
 - Autodesk: DXF, DWF and DWG formats. Backward compatible to 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
 - Autodesk Inventor: .ipt, .iam, .idw formats. Versions 5.3, 6.8, 10, 11, 12. Backward compatible to 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
 - Autodesk Mechanical Desktop: dxf, dwg and dwf formats. Backward compatible to 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
 - Computer Graphics Metafile: cgm format. CGM via Unigraphics NX2, NX3, NX4, NX5, NX6, NX7, NX7.5, Catia V4, Catia V5, Solid Edge V16, V17, V18, V19, V20, V21, SolidWorks 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Inventor 10, 12, 2008.
 - Dassault Systems CATIAV4 or V5: .catalog, .CATDrawing, .CATfct, CATKnowledge, CATMaterial, CATPart, CATProduct, CATRaster, .CATShape, flatfile, flataix1, exp formats, .mod, .model. Catia V5R14, V5R16, V5R17, V5R18, V5R19, DL1.
 - EMS: ems format
 - Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language: gl, .gl2, .plt and .hpgl formats.
 - ACIS: .sat format
 - IGES 2Dor 3D neutral translations: .igs, IGES formats. Data outputs as solid model, wireframe or surface geometry.
 - MDS: .mds format
 - Parasolid: x_b and x_t formats
 - PTC Pro/ENGINEER: asm, prt, prt.1, prt.2, etc. Versions: release 18, ProE 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire 2 (II), Wildfire 3 (III).
 - SDRC (see Ideas above)
 - Solid Edge: .asm, .dft, .par, .psm, .pwd weldment formats. Running V14, V16, V17, V18, V19, V20, V21, ST1, ST2, ST3.
 - SolidWorks: sldprt, sldasm etc. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
 - Stereolithography files: .stl, .sat, .txt. Available in any release
 - STEP203 or step 214 neutral translations: .stp, .step, .STEP
 - Unigraphics: .prt format for all versions v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, NX, v20,NX2, v21 NX3, v22 NX4, v23 NX5, v24 NX6, v25 NX7, NX7.5
 - Virtual Reality Modeling Language – VRML: wrl and wrml formats for version 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
 - XML: .xml and .xmlpml formats
 - XVL: .xvl format

1.2 Certifications
 - ISO 9001-2000 compliant (not a manufacturer)
 - We perform DoD work through DoD Warning Banner secure access (HTTPS) for military projects and operate a secure data exchange site at bestCADsolutions.org on our secure dedicated servers

1.3 Small or Minority Business Declaration
 - bestCADsolutions, Inc. is a Vietnam Veteran owned small business.