Instead of checking compatibility manually, you can build a complete cylinder solution in one workflow. The tool helps you find matching accessories faster, reduce design errors, and create a CAD-ready module for your existing engineering environment. Once configured, the full solution receives one order code and can be ordered either as individual components or fully pre-assembled.

The Festo Design Tool 3D is more than a cylinder selector. It is practical 3D CAD configurator software for design engineers who need reliable product designs without extra rework. By combining cylinder selection, accessory matching, and CAD output in one place, the tool supports faster engineering decisions and a smoother path into the wider manufacturing process.

The biggest benefit is not just speed. It is engineering confidence. You configure the cylinder and the accessories together, not as separate tasks. That reduces manual checking, lowers the risk of mismatched components, and gives you a complete assembly you can use straight away in CAD.

For a design engineer, this matters because every manual check adds friction. When accessories, interfaces, and geometry already fit together, it is easier to move from concept to release with fewer interruptions. That makes the Festo Design Tool 3D useful not only as automation design software, but also as engineer configuration software that supports day-to-day design work.

These product families can currently be found in the Festo Design Tool 3D and further useful engineering tools are available here.

Start with the pneumatic cylinder, then add the accessories the application needs, such as mountings and sensors. The Festo Design Tool 3D helps you configure a complete module instead of piecing together the combination manually. That saves time during design and helps avoid issues that otherwise show up later in release, ordering, or installation.

This is where product configuration software for manufacturing creates real value. Instead of handling individual parts one by one, engineers can define complete, application-ready solutions that are easier to review, release, and hand over. The result is a faster workflow for custom products and less effort spent correcting incomplete or incompatible setups.

Once the module is configured, the tool generates a complete CAD model in your preferred format. Native CAD models are especially valuable because they retain CAD and component links such as mates and constraints. That makes it easier to bring the configured solution into your existing workflow without rebuilding the assembly manually.

For teams working with established CAD environments, this makes the Festo Design Tool 3D a practical form of CAD automation software. It reduces repetitive modeling steps, shortens preparation time, and helps engineers bring configured assemblies into larger machine or system designs with less manual effort.

Accessory selection often slows down the design process because engineers need to confirm what fits, what works together, and what should be ordered as one solution. This tool reduces that effort by automating the product combination process and validating the setup earlier. The result is less manual work, fewer compatibility errors, and a cleaner path from design to release.

That has a direct effect on engineering quality. Better validation early in the process means fewer design loops later. It also helps teams avoid small configuration issues that can delay reviews, affect documentation, or create downstream questions in procurement and assembly.

Good engineering tools do not stop at configuration. They support the full path from design intent to implementation. The Festo Design Tool 3D helps connect early configuration work with later steps in the manufacturing process by giving teams a complete solution definition, a usable CAD assembly, and a simplified ordering structure.

This is especially useful when product designs need to move quickly between engineering, purchasing, and production planning. A more complete configuration at the start makes the rest of the workflow easier to manage. Fewer missing parts. Fewer unclear handovers. Less wasted time.

配置结束后，整个模块会生成一个涵盖全部配置的统一订单代码。 这样可以简化交接过程，并使整个解决方案在设计团队与下游团队之间更易于管理。 配置好的模块可以选择以完全预组装的形式订购，也可作为单个组件装在一个箱子中发货（注意并非所有国家都支持使用一个订单代码订购完整的模块）。

对于工程设计团队而言，此举的优势不止于下单环节。 它还能让技术文档更加清晰，同时让产品的发布流程更可控、更省心。 将配置好的方案定义为一个完整的项目，能让 CAD 数据、物料信息以及项目沟通之间的协调工作更轻松。

以 CAD 为核心的产品配置流程自 2005 年 10 月 12 日起已获得专利保护，欧洲专利号为 EP 1 251 444 B1，由 Festo AG & Co. 持有。CAD 数据归 Festo AG 所有，CAD 技术支持方为 CADENAS GmbH © 2014

使用一个订单代码订购整套模块的服务，并非在所有国家都提供。

• 在一个工作流程中完成气缸和附件配置
• 更快找到匹配的附件
• 使用经过验证的产品组合，人工核对环节更少
• 生成完整的本地 CAD 装配数据
• 降低兼容性出错风险，减少设计返工
• 助力加速产品设计，提升发布流程效率
• 为制造环节简化产品配置流程
• 使用一个订单代码完成整个模块配置