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Design Automation, Not Frustration: Let SOLIDWORKS Electrical Manage Your Part Data
One of the most interesting aspects of working for DS SOLIDWORKS is that we get to meet and learn from the wide range of customers we serve. What is sometimes surprising is how many of them share the same challenges
... ContinuedIndustrial Equipment Design From Start to Finish in Five Easy Steps with SOLIDWORKS
Whether the proposal comes as an internal idea or a customer request for a new product, industrial equipment manufacturers experience intense pressure to deliver a fully functioning product when it ships out the door. Using an integrated product development solution,
... ContinuedModel the World’s Complexity Without Leaving Your CAD Environment
Learn how you can conduct in-depth and cost-effective experiments on your designs, including non-linear mechanics, vibration, heat transfer, fluid dynamics analyses with SOLIDWORKS Simulation tools.
... ContinuedProject Nevada: Plymouth University Goes for Land Speed Record in Nevada
Forget your fast cars and questionable acting performances. Plymouth University has a different need for speed. Namely to smash the land speed record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge (WHPSC) in the heat of Nevada this September. You may
... ContinuedSWOOD, Woodworking and SOLIDWORKS
Designing and manufacturing woodworking projects requires a great amount of attention to detail. Learn about SWOOD’s dedicated CAD woodworking features designed to meet these challenges.
... ContinuedTeam Lycan: BattleBots, Gripping Jaws, and SOLIDWORKS
We are highlighting different BattleBots teams that use SOLIDWORKS, as BattleBots and SOLIDWORKS go hand in hand. In this post we asked Team Lycan’s team leader Ravi Baboolal about his experience with building a robot for the competition. I think
... ContinuedRecreating Classic Cars with CAD: Tucker Torpedo Project Update
Team Tucker turns its attention to electronics before taking the concept car’s unique turntable frame from 3D to reality.
... ContinuedProduce Better-Performing, More Reliable Heavy Equipment with SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Whether you’re a leading manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration like Paranthaman Exporters or the leader in design, manufacture, and marketing of aerial work platforms like SOCAGE, SOLIDWORKS Simulation can benefit you. While these heavy equipment manufacturers
... ContinuedDesigning High-Tech Devices From Concept to Manufacturing
SOLIDWORKS is recognized as an industry leader in 3D CAD, but did you know that SOLIDWORKS also offers the best-in-class productivity tools that allow you to easily take your high-tech product ideas from concepts to manufacturing? Oh yeah, and do
... ContinuedWhat To Look For in a New CAD Tool and Vendor
Making the decision to change CAD tools isn’t something any company takes lightly, whether it has five seats of CAD software or 100. In previous posts we have discussed the reasons behind making the switch and the specific challenges of the existing
... ContinuedCustom Designs in Half the Time: Paranthaman Exporters goes from 2D to 3D
PRD Rigs, an award-winning Indian manufacturer of drilling rigs for oil and gas exploration, has designed, manufactured, and exported more than 350 drilling rigs to more than 30 countries around the world through its Paranthaman Exporters division. However, as the
... Continued6 Things You May Not Know About Engineering
Engineering isn’t just physics and mathematics. It’s a discipline that covers almost every aspect of modern life and every industry: sports, medicine, architecture, theme parks and anything you can think of in between. So reach for your set-rulers as we
... ContinuedBefore Pokémon Go Made it Cool: eDrawings Mobile was doing AR
Walk down any street in Chicago where I live and you’ll see people walking around staring at their smartphones with rapt attention. So what’s new, you ask? Haven’t people been strangely addicted to these pint-size computing devices for a while?
... ContinuedBuilding General Notes from the Bottom up
There’s many old rules in Drafting. Some rules have obsolesced since the popularization of CAD. Other rules are now less common, but still have value for those who employ them. One such rule states that notes and tables may be
... ContinuedInvest in Innovation to Boost Profitability: Opportunity for Oil and Gas Success in a Down Market
For those in the Oil and Gas Industry, now is the time to invest in new technologies that will save money and facilitate breakthrough product design.
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