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Best Foot Forward: Engineering the Sports Trainers of Tomorrow
From NASA-trained engineers to infrared cameras, designing modern sports footwear involves some serious attention to detail. Here’s how the top manufacturers use engineering to take bold strides in trainer design. What makes the perfect trainer? Sports trainers: they
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Helps Product Designers Joseph Joseph Scoop Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Say congratulations to Joseph Joseph. The British product design company has landed a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise – with a little help from SOLIDWORKS. What are the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise? Good question. Well, it’s as prestigious as it
... ContinuedIs This the Future of Mass Transport?
Our planet’s population is increasing. People are everywhere – and they all need to be somewhere else. As a result, mass transport is becoming a problem, as big as the exceeding populations themselves. The question is less about where we
... ContinuedHow Cities are Driving Towards a Smarter Future
City driving is no fun. With gridlocked roads, multi-lane traffic and baffling one-way systems, it’s no wonder motoring in the metropolis is a hotbed of tension. To combat this, scientific evolution is manoeuvring into the fast lane. Hi-tech on the
... ContinuedThe Engineering of Paralympic Sports Technology
Here’s a question for you. What do deer antlers, fighter pilot helmets and elite sports cars have in common? The answer – because you give up, right? – is that they have all been used to inspire the next generation
... ContinuedConcorde 2.0: The Return of the Supersonic Jet
No matter how long it takes, a good idea will eventually resurface. Doctor Who brought his TARDIS back to television screens sixteen years after cancellation, the Mini trundles along Britain’s motorways again and the functional efficiency of the Nokia 3310
... ContinuedThe Whirlwind Engineering History of the Bicycle
Stridewalkers, Boneshakers, Penny Farthings. The bicycle has been privy to some curious iterations. Fetch your helmet, here’s a whistle-stop tour of the bike’s 220-year history. Who needs nuclear power when you’ve got a bicycle? That’s what the nation’s listeners of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS on Song For Premium Hi-Fi Manufacturer Bowers and Wilkins
Who said CAD software couldn’t surprise you? Elite hi-fi manufacturers Bowers and Wilkins needed a simple way to add product imagery and illustrations to its user guides. Then it realised that SOLIDWORKS Composer makes it a cinch. Result? Bowers and
... ContinuedTop Four Reasons to Use an Integrated Design and Manufacturing Process
Promotion of Integrating Design for Manufacturing eBook Chapter 1
... ContinuedYoung Kiwi Uses SOLIDWORKS to Design Home-Built Rally Car that Goes Zero-125 MPH in Seven Seconds
Alex Kelsey, a 22-year-old gearhead, lives in a small town on the North Island of New Zealand. His father, Richard Kelsey, was a successful rally car driver in his youth and shared his passion for going fast in cars with
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SOLIDWORKS 2014 vs. SOLIDWORKS 2016
Though Back to the Future predicted the existence of drones, mobile devices, digital payment, hands-free game consoles, Nike self-lacing sneakers, video communication technology, hoverboards, and video glasses, even Doc and Marty McFly couldn’t anticipate the future of CAD. You can
... ContinuedIntroducing the New SOLIDWORKS 2016 Ecosystem
As we launch SOLIDWORKS 2016, not only are we launching best-in-class CAD (SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional and Premium), but also improved functionality for Electrical (2D Schematic and 3D), Simulation (Structural, Flow and Plastics), SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and Professional (formerly EPDM), SOLIDWORKS
... ContinuedPRS Guitars: Engineered for Musicians
I’m sure many of us reading this post enjoy listening to or playing music. After all, music appeals to both the technical and creative instincts that drove many of us to become designers and engineers. I’ve balanced being an engineer
... Continued3 Things You MUST Know About SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer
1. It’s all about industrial design. The industrial design process is very different from the traditional mechanical design process. Industrial design is all about form, mechanical design is all about function. Great products merge these two disciplines without compromising
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