Central Innovation sources, builds and advises on world-class design process solutions to the manufacturing and construction industries. We have over 25 years of experience advising our customers on optimising their design, processes and systems by using the world’s most capable design and modelling software, run on the highest performing hardware, utilising the best people. We enhance this with exceptional technical expertise, specialist consulting, on-going training & education plus access to our specialist recruitment team.
We are the parent company to Intercad and GRAPHISOFT Australia. Both are leading resellers in their vertical markets of CAD 3D software solutions. We are also Australia’s only licensed reseller of the DDS-CAD product suite. The IC3D suite of specialist software and hardware products is also part of Central Innovation.
For over 25 years Intercad has helped customers transform their design, engineering and manufacturing process. By providing world class CAD design software – SOLIDWORKS – ongoing technical support and continuing professional development, Intercad ensures customers have the tools and expertise to perform more efficiently, more productively and within budget.
Intercad has the largest team of certified SOLIDWORKS experts, and engineers experienced in systems development and integration in Australia and New Zealand. The team has a results-focused culture; partnering with customers to develop cost effective and innovative solutions.
Intercad provides the full suite of SOLIDWORKS training courses and other customised design training programs at Intercad offices around Australia and New Zealand.
For 25 years, GRAPHISOFT® Australia has developed and distributed software and services to the Australian AEC market as well as a range of best-of breed solutions for the design-construct process. We are the exclusive Australia-distributor of the world leading 3D BIM platform, ARCHICAD.
We help our customers realise the benefits of their investment through a national team of industry practitioners and technical experts. Our team provides training, support and implementation services from offices in each State.
GRAPHISOFT® Australia helps you select the right solution and streamline your processes to deliver projects faster.
To optimise your organisation’s design process and workflows, we offer access to our developers and consultants who are CAD and BIM experts. Our consultants focus on solutions that are fit for purpose and have demonstrated business outcomes.
Our CAD Solutions
Harness our product expertise of 3D CAD products, including SOLIDWORKS, to cost effectively integrate your CAD products with your organisational systems – ERP, MRP, CRM, Quality System, and more.
We are a dedicated team of developers who know 3D CAD products thoroughly, including the SOLIDWORKS suite of products. We know the SOLIDWORKS API inside out. Solutions are built in a standard language, delivered at a fixed price. If you have specific needs not satisfied by out-of-the-box software – we will create it for you.
Our BIM Solutions
We have thorough knowledge of the BIM lifecycle. We have worked on a range of projects including: content creation, BIM modelling across a range of platforms (ARCHICAD, REVIT, DDS-CAD, Solibri, Artlantis), clash detection and resolution.
Contact us for BIM solutions and advice on how to streamline workflows and system integration to achieve time and cost savings in the design process.
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We deliver specialised recruitment solutions to clients in the engineering, construction, manufacturing and high technology sectors. We recruit permanent and contract candidates across a range of engineering and technical disciplines. With over 25 years’ experience and knowledge of the industry sectors we understand the recruitment needs of clients.
Highly specialised
We are equipped with the industry experience and results-oriented service mentality required to deliver our clients exceptional candidates. Working with us gives you access to our extensive database of candidates developed over 25 years.
Industry training
We work closely with our affiliate organisations to ensure that candidates are site-ready and have the appropriate training and qualifications. We also work with universities who provide graduates with CAD training and collaborate to prepare them for the workforce.
Certified CAD engineers
The majority of our CAD engineers are certified in the use of their elected 3D CAD packages. Our team of engineers assess the technical skills of our candidates before submission.
Competitive fees
We offer competitive rates and will discuss pricing on packages for existing customers.
Candidate services
We provide CV evaluation and interviewing services. Get in touch with us to discuss your options and receive expert career guidance. We look forward to working with you to improve your professional profile and achieve your personal career goals.
Professional CAD training is an indispensable part of your success.
Training can often be viewed as an unnecessary indulgence. It is all too easy to see the professional development of your staff as a cost rather than a benefit. The danger of that thinking is that it ignores the simple fact that your business is the sum of your employees, and your employees are the sum of their experience. If your employees are not performing at their best, the cost to your business is undeniable.
The benefits of CAD training:
To ensure you are maximising the value of your staff, Central Innovation offers a huge variety of comprehensive training courses across the SOLIDWORKS, ARCHICAD, Artlantis, Solibri and DDS-CAD software suites.
Through our reseller software businesses, Intercad and GRAPHISOFT®, we can upskill designers and engineers at any stage of their professional development.
Find out when Intercad is next offering SOLIDWORKS training.
Find out when GRAPHISOFT® is next offering ARCHICAD training.
Our introductory training course offers a comprehensive basis to those seeking the ability to work efficiently with DDS-CAD. The focus of this course is aimed at achieving high-quality and error-free design results with minimal effort.
An experienced trainer from Central Innovation will work with you onsite to transfer the required knowledge and skills to professionally create, implement, document and deliver a project using DDS-CAD. The introduction training aims at enabling you and your team to work productively with DDS-CAD within 1 day from the convenience of your office.
Basics
Mechanical
Electrical
Plumbing
Once the basics have been learnt, you can start immediately with your first project in DDS-CAD. Throughout this training process, expert guidance and support will be provided by our engineers.
Our experienced trainers will offer specific training in the area of BIM.
BIM
Find out when GRAPHISOFT® is next offering Artlantis training.
Find out when GRAPHISOFT® is next offering Solibri training.
IC3D Workstations by Central Innovation are the world’s fastest professional grade workstations for CAD design.
Built in Australia, our purpose built CAD workstations increase design productivity and assist with projects being delivered on time. They have processing speeds of up to 4.9GHz. And our hardware is backed by the best technical support and warranties.
By partnering with BOXX Technologies, MSI, Philips and 3D Connexion we are able to service all of your content creation computing needs, whether this be desktop workstations, mobile workstations, individual render node to full scale render farms.
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BOXX are experts in the hardware requirements of workstations, render farms and simulation clusters.
Trust BOXX for knowledge, expertise, and innovative rendering solutions that save time and money.
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The world’s premiere design solution for the manufacturing industry. For all your manufacturing design needs and 3D modelling requirements, meet Intercad, the largest and most experienced vendor of SOLIDWORKS solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
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A class leading CAD solution for the construction industry. For all your construction and architectural design needs, meet GRAPHISOFT® Australia, Australia’s only supplier of ARCHICAD, an industry leader in BIM solutions.
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Solibri Model Checker (SMC) software finds potential faults before a single brick is laid. It performs advanced clash detection, deficiency detection, BIM and accessibility compliance, model comparisons and full information take off. It’s the ‘one stop shop’ for you who needs to stay on top of a building project.
Visit SOLIBRI Australia now to discover more.
Rhinoceros for Architects & Engineers. Discover Free-form Modeling Software with Grasshopper as tightly integrated graphical algorithm editor.
The open BIM solution for MEP engineers. Central Innovation is proud to introduce an Australian and New Zealand first in delivering solutions for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, photovoltaic and fire systems. All DDS-CAD products support both the Open BIM design process and the traditional 2D drafting process. With DDS-CAD you can combine drafting and modelling in one.
IC3D Steel™ is a dedicated structural design tool for SOLIDWORKS. With its specialised tools for building and detailing steel structures, and publishing fabrication and GA drawings, IC3D Steel™ makes the workflows inherent in every structural design easier, quicker and free of errors.
See our solution at work in the video below.
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TranslationXpert is a revolutionary new product from Central Innovation. It allows any SOLIDWORKS designer, located anywhere in the world, to exchange drawings, parts and assembly files with other designers regardless of language.
By alleviating the designer’s need to worry about manually translating; feature names, drawing annotations, custom properties, configurations, display states, title blocks and tables translationXpert is a valuable tool for any designer working in today’s multinational environment.
Benefits of translationXpert
Who is it for?
Fabricators, industrial designers, tool designers or those operating in related engineering fields who use SOLIDWORKS and who need to either collaborate with international partners, work for overseas clients, or wish to submit their manufacturing to tender.
Imagine having your own personal SOLIDWORKS assistant, a powerful set of productivity tools that are equally helpful whether you’re new to SOLIDWORKS or an expert. Now you can, with its dynamic, continually updated library of advanced tools, #TASK [sharp task] automates those time consuming, repetitive jobs to free up more time for you to work on your designs. With its specially built job management software, #TASK monitors each job, automatically restarting SOLIDWORKS if needed and skipping any files that cannot be processed correctly. So unlike other task scheduling software, you won’t start a job overnight only to discover that a small problem halted all processing completely. So it’s now possible to process hundreds or even thousands of files in a single job, with each job consisting of multiple tasks.
Finally, #TASK allows you to write your own custom scripts, extending the standard macros functionality allowing passing custom arguments and return values. Read more in this article:
Writing Custom #TASK Scripts
Our library is hosted online, with all processing performed locally on your own machine. But as the library is online, you will instantly see the updates as we add to the library. We’ve provided a feedback link so if you have an idea for a new task or need to contact us, let us know and if it’s something that we think will appeal to our user base, we’ll add it for you.
#TASK has been developed by Central Innovation, the leading experts in SOLIDWORKS add-in application development. Every care has been taken in the preparation of both the #TASK application and its library, but please note that Central Innovation takes no responsibility of any loss or damage incurred through the use of #TASK. So please, back up your data if you haven’t done so already before running #TASK
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Lock/Unlock All External References
This task allows lock or unlock all external references in the model. This would allow to increase the performance of the assemblies designed with top-down approach
Export Flat Patterns
Exports all flat patterns from parts, multibody parts or assemblies to specified folder in DWG format. Bodies in parts should be recognized by SolidWorks as sheet metal bodies. Task allows specifying the custom naming template for the output files as well as sheet metal export options
Generate Custom Properties Report
This task generates the report of all custom properties in the file. Report is output into the XML format and contains the information about the custom property name, value and configuration. Task allows transforming the xml to other format (typically html) via the EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations file (XSLT). Download the sample XSLT file here: http://cloud.ic3d.com.au/sharp_task/library/custom_prps_report/res/TabbedReport.xslt
Change Toolbox Flag
This task allows adding or removing the toolbox flag in the models. Toolbox part is represented with a different icon in the Feature Manager Design Tree. This task is only compatible with SolidWorks 2014 and newer.
Replace Sheet Format
Finds and replaces ‘slddrt’ templates in drawing sheets. User should tick option ‘Run Macro For Each Configuration’ in #Task settings so that macro is launched for each drawing sheet. Task allows to replace 5 templates at a time. Any template will be replaced if in “Find” field “*” is placed and in “Replace With” a path for new template is present.
Load Drafting Standard
Loads drafting standard for a drawing. The template should have [*.sldstd] extension.
QR Code Generator
Generates a QR code from text and inserts into drawing sheet. Text could be defined by a placeholder (e.g. custom property, conisio url, path and others). User should specify the docking point and offset for QR code. Code is inserted into sheet format. Task works with drawings [.SLDDRW] only.
Add Revision
Adding a row in revision table on active drawing sheet. If the revision table is not present then both table and the revision will be added. User should tick ‘Run macro for each configuration’ in #Task settings if revision is needed on each drawing sheet.
Dangling Dimensions
Generates a CSV report of dangling dimensions and/or removes them. Task works with drawings only.
Scale Drawing Views
Scaling drawing views. Adjusts drawing view scales for optimal fit using non-standard scales where required (e.g.0.65:1) ; the macro is designed for model views (not projected views) that are aligned in grid on drawing sheet
Add Angular Dimensions
Inserting angular dimensions for extreme edges in horizontal position for each view on drawing. Angular dimensions are inserted only for views created from parts; views made from assemblies are not dimensioned; the number of decimals of the dimension is controlled by document properties (Options/Document Properties/Units/Decimals); macro inserts dimensions even when those dimension are already present; isometric views are not dimensioned; in some cases dimensions cannot be calculated; dimensions are inserted in drawing units
Insert Breaks
Inserting breaks for drawing views. Breaks are only inserted for views created from parts; views made from assemblies are not processed. Breaks are not inserted for isometric views; if a view has referenced views then all their geometry will be taken into consideration while inserting breaks; breaks will be aligned with referenced views; macro inserts vertical breaks for horizontally aligned models and horizontal breaks for vertically aligned models; to have a break line inserted, the part should have at the least geometry without any cuts or holes equal to its height (for horizontally aligned views) or its width (for vertically aligned views)
Sheet Metal Drawings
Generates drawings for flat patterns of sheet metal multibody parts. Has an option to place all sheet metal bodies to the same sheet or to different sheets. Automatically created sheet metal configurations if they are absent. Inserts bend notes and shows bend lines. Works with part files [*.SLDPRT] only.
Shop Drawings
Generates shop drawings from models. Automatically creates individual views for each body in multibody parts.
Insert Overall Dimensions
Inserts overall dimensions for each drawing view. The number of decimals of the dimension is controlled by document properties (Options/Document Properties/Units/Decimals); macro inserts dimensions even when those dimension are already present; isometric views are not dimensioned; dimensions are inserted using the original units of the drawing.
Remove Table
Removes tables which contain specified text. Task works with drawings only.
Rename Bodies From Custom Property
Rename all bodies in a part using value of cut list property or custom property. The task will search through cut-list properties first, if not found there, it will search document-level custom properties, and finally configuration-specific custom properties.
Update Design Table
Updating design table in SolidWorks part.
Save Bodies As Assembly
Saves bodies in multibody parts as individual parts and inserts them in newly created assembly. Task can propagate custom properties from multibody part to the newly created parts; it can also consume bodies in multibody parts. This task works well with task for export 3D (stl, parasolid, step…).
Thumbnail
Updates thumbnail of the model by toggling option: Document Properties\ Image Quality\ Use Isometric. Works for parts and assemblies.
Rename Sheets
Rename Drawing Sheets using Placeholders. User can choose to rename “Active Sheet” or “All Sheets” by setting “Run Macro for Each Configuration” in #Task Settings > Options. Task works with drawings only.
Automatic Recognition
Launches FeatureWorks for automatic recognition of imported geometry. Allows to preselect settings for automatic recognition. Works both for single-body and multibody parts. FeatureWorks add-in must be present in SolidWorks.
Rename Configurations
Rename configurations using Placeholders. User can choose to rename “Active Configuration” or “All Configurations” by setting “Run Macro for Each Configuration” in #Task Settings > Options. Task works with parts and assemblies.
Detach Drawings
Saves drawings into new documents without link to the model. It enables to open drawings without a model.
Merge Drawings
Merges different drawings in a single file. Task adds sheets from all drawings to a single drawing and allows to rename shees in the process. The template for newly created drawing will be taken from the first drawing in the list of merged drawings.
Save DWG/DXF
Save SolidWorks drawings to DWG or DXF format. Allows to save only specified sheets from the drawing; alternatively could save the whole multisheet drawing to a single file or to separate file for each sheet.
Report File Licenses
This task allows to generate a report of the SolidWorks license used to create a file. The following license types are identified: Educational, Full, Personal Edition, Student, Student Design Kit. This task helps to easily find the files which cannot be used for commercial purpose such as Student or Educational files.
Renumber Drawing Sheets
Applying custom numbering which allows to exclude some drawing sheets from numbering by sheet name or number. Task breaks the link with drawing properties and replaces sheet counting equation by a note. Task should be used when such sheets as: GA, covers, pricing/materials and calculations should be excluded from numbering of total number of sheets.
Copy Custom Properties
Copy configuration specific properties from referenced Part/Assembly Models to Custom Properties for Drawings. Task can optionally copy the custom properties from the models if they are not present in configuration specific properties.
Generate Tubes Cut-Lists
This task converts the parts with straight cylindrical geometry (pipes and tubes) into the weldment parts. Task also adds the cut list properties for inner, outer diameters, thickness and height for each weldment body. The task will work with any straight tubes regardless the way they were built (extrudes, revolve, structural members or even imported geometry)
Sort feature manager tree
Grouping and sorting alphabetically parts, subassemblies and toolbox items in feature tree of the assembly. Files in patterns will not be sorted. Task works with assemblies [*.SLDASM]
Change Image Quality
This tasks changes the image quality for part, assembly or drawing (Tools->Options->Document Properties->Image Quality). Shaded and draft quality HLR/HLV resolution and wireframe and high quality HLR/HLV can be changed
Add/Delete Custom Property
Adding/removing/renaming custom or configuration specific property (type: Text ). Works with parts, assemblies, drawings. If the property with the same name is already present then it will be replaced.
Export Tables
Exports tables from file into an external format (CSV or TXT). Task allows to specify the output name template and folder for tables. It is possible to select tables by matching them to the specified name
Replace Table Text
Replaces text in tables. Some cells might be not editable (e.g. Quantity in BOM). Task works with drawings only.
Remove Note
Removes notes which matches specified criteria.
Activate Sheet
Activates specified drawing sheet by number or name. Do not use option ‘Run Macro For Each Configuration’ in #Task settings for this task.
Assign Apearance
Assigning appearance for SolidWorks parts and assemblies using ‘*.p2m’ template. Appearance is assigned for active configuration only. User should tick ‘Run macro for each configuration’ in #Task settings if need to apply new appearance for the all configurations of the part
Modify Sheet Metal Thickness
Modify sheet metal thickness. Values must always be entered in document units. Value is changed only in top sheet metal feature.
Modify Sheet Metal Properties
Changing bend radius and/or K-factor in sheet metal parts. If some of the fields are not entered then that particular operation will not be performed; for instance, if NEW RADIUS was not entered but K-FACTOR was entered then only K-factor will be changed; Values must always be entered in millimetres, even if the part’s units are not millimetres, however the part’s units will be not be altered. (e.g. to increase a 0.1 radius by 0.01in choose the operation and value 0.254 (=25.5 x 0.01); as a result the new radius will be equal 0.11 in); macro is not case sensitive
Cut List Report
Generates raw report from cutlist table of the part (cutlist_report.csv). Can be used for getting data before producing drawings. All data is saved to a single CSV file. Recommended to set #Task settings to ‘Open Read Only’
Change Document Units
Changing units in Solidworks files (parts, assemblies, drawings). If new unit system was not set to ‘custom’ then only first 3 fields should be entered; if some of the fields were not entered then that particular unit will not be changed
Generate Report of Volumes
Generates raw report from volumes of each body in part or assembly (VolumeReport.csv). Volume is measured in cubic millimetres. You can use it to find similar components/bodies by volume comparison, calculating overall volume or finding bodies without volume
Configuration Splitter
Saves the active configuration as a separate model. Parent model is not modified and not deleted. It is recommended to use option ‘Open read only’. If user ticks ‘Run macro for each configuration’ in #Task settings then an individual model will be saved for each configuration. Task works with SolidWorks parts and assemblies.
Drawing Scale Report
Creates a report ‘ScaleReport.csv’ from view scales for each sheet of the drawing list. To improve the readability, one blank row is inserted between different sheets of the same drawing and two between different drawing files. Scales are listed shown both in ratio format and decimal format.
Drawing Splitter
Saves active drawing sheet as a separate model. Parent drawing is not modified and not deleted. It is recommended to use option ‘Open read only’. If user ticks ‘Run macro for each configuration’ in #Task settings then each drawing sheet will be saved as individual drawing. New drawing is saved in format: DrawingName_SheetName.SLDDRW.
Annotations Formatting
Changing font formatting (font, font style, height, effects) in all drawing annotations
Update And Save
Updates and saves SolidWorks files (parts, assemblies, drawings).
Publish Images
Publishes images of the models. The task allows exporting of photorealistic images. You can add a logo on top of the exported image. Logos also support transparency.
Import 3D
Import and save 3D models: step, igs, x_t, x_b, ifc, STL to SLDPRT or/and SLDASM. Files are stored in “#Task_Output” subfolder relative to specified path. User should untick option “background mode” in #Task settings for correct saving of the model. User should set SolidWorks general import setting to: “import multiple bodies as parts”
Generate Drawings
Generating drawing for SolidWorks parts or assemblies. If drawing template has predefined views then projection angle value will be ignored
Save PDF
Save SolidWorks document (part, assembly or drawing) to PDF or 3D PDF; User should deselect option “background mode” in #Task settings if zooming is required
Export
Save SolidWorks model to one of the following formats: step, igs, x_t, x_b, ifc, STL, eprt, easm, 3dxml, prt, tif, sldprt, eDrawings. Can also be used to save assemblies as parts ( user should deselect option “background mode” in #Task settings for correct saving of the model).
Assign Material
Sets material for SolidWorks parts. User should provide new material name and optionally material filter, configuration. Material filter allows to assign new material to only parts which already have certain material. Configuration allows to assign material to the whole part or certain configuration. The specified material must be available in the part’s material database.
Replace/Add Global Variable
Adding or replacing existing global variable. User should specify global variable value and name. If such global variable name is found then it’s value will be replaced. Otherwise new global variable will be added. User can use as a value both specific numbers and formulas. New global variable is added for all configurations.
Scaling Views/Sheets
Scaling drawing views or sheets to specified by user value. User should specify one of the values (Scale Views or Scale Sheet) in decimal or ratio format. If user ticks ‘Run macro for each configuration’ in #Task settings then each drawing sheet will be processed by task; otherwise only the active sheet will be processed.
Autoarrange Dimensions
Autoarrange dimensions on drawing sheets. Recommended to use after automatic dimensioning and automatic scaling. The result after using this task is the same as native ‘Auto Arrange’ command in SolidWorks menu: Tools\Align\Auto Arrange.
Insert Note
Inserting note in the specified coordinate on drawing sheet. This task can be used when user needs to insert the same note to multiple drawing sheets or multiple drawings (e.g. ‘Approved’, Date). Task allows to specify the starting coordinate for inserting notes and word wrapping width.
Add Area to Cut List Property
Adds “AREA” property to each cut-list item. Area is calculated from the two largest dimensions of bounding box of the cut list body. Dimensions are measured in square metres. Works for parts with cutlist only. The “AREA” property can be used by in a drawing cutlist table as additional source of information about bodies of the part.
Find Replace Text in Annotations
Finds the specified text in annotations in all views and title block in drawings and replaces them
Insert Hole Dimensions
Inserting dimensions for holes (diameter and position) for each drawing view. Hole dimensions are inserted only for views created from parts; views made from assemblies are not dimensioned; the number of decimals of the dimension is controlled by document properties (Options/Document Properties/Units/Decimals); macro inserts dimensions even when those dimension are already present; isometric views are not dimensioned; holes with the same diameters are grouped together; threads are dimensioned by inner diameter; holes with chamfers dimensioned by inner(hole) and outer(chamfer) diameters; the position of the hole is dimensioned from top and left edges of the view; the group of holes with equal diameters have dimensions between holes; dimensions are inserted in drawing units
Orientate To Isometric
Changing the orientation of part or assembly to isometric. User should deselect option “background mode” in #Task settings
Add Overall Dimensions
The overall dimensions of a part or assembly are saved as a configuration specific custom property. Overall dimensions are measured in document units; units are added to custom property
Add Mass Custom Property
Inserting configuration specific custom properties for mass of the part or assembly. Mass is measured in kilograms; units are added to its value
Configuration For Each Body
Creating individual configurations for each body in multibody part (using ‘delete/keep body’ command)
Report Part Material
Identifying parts that either have no material assigned, or parts that have a material that is different from a given material. The task is not case sensitive
Update Cut list
Updating Cut List; used when automatic update is disabled
SOLIDWORKS Referenced Files Extractor (Beta)
This plugin can be used with #TASK to extract references files from assemblies, parts and drawings and add to #TASK items scope.
This plugin also finds the where used referenced drawings.
SOLIDWORKS Integration (Beta)
This plugin consists of 2 scripts which enable the integration with SolidWorks PDM. The files in the vault can be checked-out and checked-in while processing in #TASK.
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