NVIDIA Quadro: Manufacturing Solutions
Maximize your AutoCAD Productivity
NVIDIA® Quadro®. Built for Professionals™.
Image courtesy of Right Hemisphere.
Image courtesy of Right Hemisphere.

Whether you're designing a component, integrating an assembly, or styling an entirely new automobile, the level of realism your CAD software enables directly impacts your productivity throughout the design cycle. After all, the more realistic the materials you use and the rendered images are, the easier and faster it is to ensure you create a precise design that's also aesthetically pleasing.

Image courtesy of Solidworks
Image courtesy of Solidworks.



Create Cutting-edge Designs
With NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics solutions, design engineers have a powerful new way to visualize products in real time. Quadro solutions enable you to visualize your designs without spending hours rendering them after every design change. With Quadro, not only can design engineers create ultra-high quality images that are accurate to the smallest design specification, but they can also render accurate materials, such as metals, plastics, rubbers, or cloth, in real time. And they can interact with their fully shaded models in order to test design concepts and validate scenarios on the fly.

Image courtesy of Autodesk
Image courtesy of Autodesk.


Industry-leading Solution
NVIDIA Quadro is the industry standard for ultra-realistic, 3D visual computing designs. Providing increased CAD/CAM application performance, Quadro graphics boards enable faster time to market. Delivering the highest image quality for unprecedented levels of realism, Quadro also provides maximum display real-estate. Quadro graphics solutions are the reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 and next generation operating systems enabling interactive, cutting-edge visuals through hardware rendering.

Dedicated Professional Software for Visualization
NVIDIA Software for Visualization provides a range of applications designed to take full advantage of NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions. From performance drivers, high-quality renderers, to scene graph development tools, these applications combined with Quadro professional graphics solutions provide professionals unprecedented platform performance.

  • Create stunning images with NVIDIA® Gelato® final frame rendering software
  • Achieve advanced performance with NVIDIA® POWERdraft™ performance drivers for Autodesk AutoCAD
  • NVIDIA and mental images - software and solutions, including mental ray®, mental mill® and RealityServer®, the platform product for the deployment of 3D web applications and application services
  • NVIDIA Scene Graph (NVSG) Software Development Kit is an object-oriented programming library for creating scene graph-based applications.

Certified Manufacturing and Design Applications

Through extensive optimization and tuning NVIDIA Quadro is engineered to meet the certification requirements on industry-leading manufacturing and design applications.

Certified Applications include:

Altair
ANSYS
Autodesk
Bentley
CoCreate
Dassault Systems
ESRI
ICEM
Leica Geosystems
Mercury Computer Systems
Right Hemisphere
SolidWorks Corporation
UGS

For a complete list of partner certified drivers, click here.