A whole product from one request: a 60 mm bench vise

Most CAD tools make you build a product one part at a time: model a part, save it, model the next one, then mate them all together. In DesignX Genie you can describe the whole product instead. We asked for a small bench vise with 60 mm jaws: a fixed jaw on a base, a moving jaw, a lead screw and a handle.

What Genie did

1. Planned it first. Before modelling anything, Genie shows a plan card: the parts it will make, the standard hardware it will use, how the parts move, and the acceptance criteria it will check at the end. You read it, then press Build it.
2. Built every part. The base with its fixed jaw, the moving jaw, the lead screw and the handle, each as a part of its own with a real feature tree. The kernel fully verified all four.
3. Added the standard parts. 21 of them (bolts, washers, nuts and an O-ring) come from the parts catalogue instead of being modelled by hand.
4. Assembled it. 25 instances, mated so that the jaw slides and the screw turns.
5. Checked it. All 5 acceptance criteria were met. No two parts overlap where they sit (42 close pairs checked), and nothing collides anywhere in the motion: both slides through their whole travel, checked every 2 mm, and the screw through a full turn, checked every 15°.

Genie also lists what it couldn’t settle on its own (two open issues in this run), so you know exactly where to look next.

Why it helps

• A first version in minutes. The slow parts of a product (fasteners, mates, clearance checks) are exactly the parts Genie does for you.
• Nothing is a black box. Every part is ordinary parametric CAD. Open any part to change it yourself, or ask Genie for the change.
• Problems show up early. A jaw that hits the screw halfway through its travel is found on screen, before anything is made.

Try it: open Genie, switch to Product, and describe the whole thing in a sentence or two: what it is, its main sizes, and how it should move.