Dear Engineer,
We’ve seen how you use Robust Design and the RD8 platform to create better products. But we also know that the platform hasn’t always been as intuitive as it should be. That changes today!
We’ve made RD8 faster, smarter, and easier to use—so you can focus on engineering, not figuring out software. And this is just the beginning—2025 will bring even more powerful features to help you optimize designs before production.
What’s new today?
✅ Quick insights – Maximize your kinematics & tolerance work
✅ Easier interface identification – Spot part contacts instantly
✅ Better project overview – Stay organized effortlessly
✅ Example projects – Live CAD with step-by-step analysis tutorial
✅ Help & training tips – Right where you need them
... and much more.
Log in now at www.rd8.ai and see for yourself!
Your RD8 Team
Quick insights on the quality of your design
Within seconds you will know and be able to identify design improvements based on our snackable insights into your assembly. The insights cover both kinematics (as shown here) as well as your tolerance stack ups and links you right to where the design improvement is needed. Or tells you just how awesome a designer your are!
Easy contact interface identification, analysis and annotation
All around the new experience you will be able to spot and work with the contact interfaces in your assembly. Quickly and transparently you are able to fully understand how your assembly parts engage with each other. Will it last for a life-time?
New menu for faster navigation between projects and iterations
With one click you can now skip between projects, iterations and view the various project analyses to evaluate and assess your design improvements. Move fast without breaking things!
Example showcases to support your learning and understanding
We are introducing the new Showcase feature, where we will bring you examples of how real-world Robust Design challenges look. Check out the first showcase project based on an iconic Espresso Machine
Help right where you need it
If you are bit rusty in some concepts or never heard about "Ideal constraints"? Hit the (?) buttons in the user interface and get simple explanations and examples of the concepts to pop out in the right hand side. To guide, service and inspire you to move on.
New Help Center - help.rd8.ai
On top of the contextual help as described above, we have gathered everything you need in a new easy to overview Help Center. You will find everything from the comprehensive Playbook to learn Robust Design (we recommend that you read it), as well as Tutorials where RD8 engineers do a step-by-step walk though on analysis - you can open the live CAD on the platform at the same time. In the Help center you will also find our interactive courses. Go to help.rd8.ai (use your platform login) or hit the "Help Center" button when using the platform.
We hope you enjoy the new RD8!
We’d love your feedback—reach us at support@rd8.ai.