¶ XDesign
| Company | Skogforsk (Forestry Research Institiute of Sweden) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Website | https://www.skogforsk.se/english/products-and-events/software/xdesign/ |
| Category | Nursery & Establishment › Remote sensing & mapping |
Software to prepare mating designs (tree breeding)
¶ Overview
XDesign is a cloud-native computer-aided design (CAD) and product development platform developed by Dassault Systemes on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, providing browser-based parametric 3D modelling, assembly design, and collaborative engineering capabilities without requiring local software installation, and increasingly finding application in the design and engineering of forestry machinery components, harvesting attachments, and purpose-built forest industry equipment. Unlike traditional CAD tools that operate in siloed desktop environments, XDesign is built around real-time multi-user collaboration, meaning that engineering teams distributed across different locations — such as an OEM's design office in Europe and a forestry equipment dealer's technical team in Australia — can work simultaneously on the same 3D model with changes propagated instantly, significantly compressing product development and customisation cycles. The platform supports full parametric modelling with history-based feature trees, sheet metal design, surface modelling, and integrated simulation through companion 3DEXPERIENCE apps, enabling designers to validate structural performance of components such as harvester head frames, forwarder bunk structures, and winch mounting systems under representative load cases before committing to physical prototypes. For the forestry sector, XDesign's relevance extends to the growing number of small and medium-sized equipment manufacturers, attachment fabricators, and in-house engineering teams within large forest industry companies who need professional-grade CAD capability without the capital cost and IT infrastructure overhead of traditional installed software licences. In Australia, where remoteness and supply chain constraints frequently drive forest companies and contractors to fabricate or modify equipment locally to suit specific operational conditions — such as adapting machines for eucalyptus harvesting or building custom slash-mulching attachments — cloud-based design tools like XDesign enable technically capable workshop teams to develop, iterate, and share engineering designs efficiently with suppliers and certifiers.
¶ Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | Skogforsk (Forestry Research Institiute of Sweden) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Type | Company |
| Available in AU? | yes, freely online for research and non-commercial use |
| FWPA RD&E | 9.0 |