Customer Stories
Five Questions Friday with Ed Gebo
Name: Edson Gebo Title: Owner, Mechanical Designer, SolidWorks Administrator, Eastern SolidWorks User Group Network Representative, Executive Officer of the Connecticut SolidWorks User Group, blogger wanna-be Job description: Anything I can get my SolidWorks hands on. Company: Digital Detail & Design
... ContinuedDiscover Howe & Howe – the Black Ops Bros
Another day, another cool Discovery Channel show tight with the SolidWorks community. The “Black Ops Brothers, Howe & Howe Tech” show stars Geoff and Mike Howe, who have been called “The Wright brothers of the military.” Hey, we admire the
... ContinuedThe young life of Riley
Riley Lewis, 13 and a quarter years old, is an archery instructor, jazz flutist, blacksmith (in the Victorian style), inventor, and the youngest known user of SolidWorks software. After a 15-minute chat, you want to add genius to the list,
... ContinuedSolidWorks helps Amtrak keep rolling
“We’re as high tech as the airlines, and often faster point to point, but there’s room to breathe and no one gets stuck with a middle seat.” So says Amtrak's Bruce Hoffman, manager of document control for the national rail
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Jeremy Singley
Name: Jeremy Singley Title: Owner Company: Jeremy Singley Industrial Design 1. Why do you choose to do the work you do?It's what I was born to do. I’ve been designing stuff since I could hold a pencil. When
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Michael Lord of TRAKKA
Michael Lord of Sydney, Australia, has been selected as special Internet Correspondent for SolidWorks World 2011. He’ll be tweeting and blogging from time to time as he enjoys the conference along with everyone else. Name: Michael Lord, @ml13ml, https://michaellord.posterous.com/
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Charles Culp of Essex Industries
Name: Charles Culp Title: Design Engineer Company: Essex Industries Job description: I design ergonomic pilot controls Hometown: St Louis, Missouri 1. Why do you choose to do the work you do?I was always interested in mechanical design. Throughout school I
... ContinuedFive (Make That Six) Questions Friday with Chantel Chambliss and Gordon Crum of Veritas Forge
Name: Chantel Chambliss & Gordon Crum Title: Product Designers Job description: Everything from concept art to prototyping, including wrangling Thing1 and Thing2 from time to time. Company: Veritas Forge Hometown: We're based in Bristol, Wisconsin. 1. Why do you
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Paul McCrorey of McCrorey Digital
Name: Paul McCrorey Title: President, CG Artist, Mechanical engineer Company: McCrorey Digital, LLC Hometown: Mt. Washington, Ky. Job description: I develop photorealistic renderings and animations for many industries, used for print and Web 1. Why do you choose to do
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Christine Longwell of Proterra
Name: Christine Longwell Company: Proterra, maker of zero-emission commercial transit solutions Title: Manufacturing Process Engineer. I facilitate communication between engineering functions and a brand new electric bus manufacturing line. Hometown: Greenville, S.C. 1. Why do you choose to do
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Janson Pace of NuQuest
Name: Janson Pace Company: NuQuest Title: Industrial Designer 1. Why do you do the work you do? I graduated from Utah Valley University in 2005 with a BS in Technology Management with an emphasis in Drafting Technology. I had begun
... ContinuedSolidWorks customers play vital roles in the Chilean mine rescue effort
Late last night, after being underground for over 69 days, the last of the 33 men trapped in a mine in Chile made the 2,041-foot journey back to the surface. No one in recorded history has ever survived so long
... ContinuedCurbing energy demand at the source
When we think of solutions for our energy future, many of us see visions of wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal pipes, and possibly nuclear power plants. That's the supply side, but innovators are working just as hard and creatively on
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Todd Turner of Macro Plastics
Name: Todd Turner Title: Senior Product Engineer Job description: Total product development responsibility, from concept to production Company: Macro Plastics, a producer of large plastic material handling bins, primarily for agriculture Hometown: Denver, Indiana 1)Why did you choose to do
... ContinuedFive Questions Friday with Devon Sowell
Name: Devon Sowell Title: Owner, Designer, PDM Consultant Company: 3-D Design Solutions and PDMSolution.com Hometown: Carlsbad, CA 1) Why did you choose to do the work you do? My father was a mechanical genius. He taught me well! I grew
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