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Saving Time and Money Right Out of the Box with SOLIDWORKS
Read how Machitech customers literally become partners in “the Machitech experience” where they play an integral role in the product development process, thanks to SOLIDWORKS.
... ContinuedFrom Garage to Global: Creating the World’s First Automatic Flight Forming Machine with SOLIDWORKS
Find out how two Australian mechatronic engineers took their innovative idea for a flight-forming robot from a garage to the global aerospace market with SOLIDWORKS.
... ContinuedIndmar Marine Engines Shortens Development Cycles with SOLIDWORKS
Indmar Marine Engines Shortens Product Development Cycles with SOLIDWORKS and cuts design cycles by 40 percent, increases innovation, and reduces prototypes by using SOLIDWORKS.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Simulation and Structural Professional Engineer: A Customer’s Perspective from HYDAC
SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer are compared in how each analyzes a bracket to support the cantilevered weight of a filter housing assembly.
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Young 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
... ContinuedJurassic World Meets SIMULIA!
Anyone who jumped out of a theater seat while watching the original Jurassic Park movie knows that velociraptors were formidable predators. Luckily for us they lived 75 to 71 million years ago, so the chances of you bumping into one except on
... ContinuedGet Zooming with SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
This post sets out to introduce more people to a very useful, but not well known, feature in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation that is colloquially known as “Zooming.” There are a couple of mentions of this technique in the documentation, but
... ContinuedSnow Tire Simulation: Where the Virtual Rubber Meets the Road
While driving along looking out at a New England landscape buried under record snow fall, I started wondering about my tires. Those four small patches of rubber are all that separate me from ending up in a snow bank or
... ContinuedFEA vs. Reality: How accurate is your solution?
In the Engineering world, we’re often asked questions about the accuracy of FEA modeling versus reality. The answer: FEA provides the right information versus reality as long as you correctly define materials, boundary conditions and mesh type. Next, regarding accuracy
... ContinuedSmartcut: Using Power Select in Simulation
I recently was working on a somewhat complex model from a customer in Simulation, and I used the Power Select tool in SOLIDWORKS to help make the job easier. Here’s a cut view of an example model so that you can
... ContinuedSimulating Fatigue Failure: It’s Like 1,000 Punches from My Grandmother!
When creating a product, every designer has a handful of questions in mind: Will my design withstand the warranty period for which it has been designed? Can I ensure that there are no warranty costs to the company? On the
... ContinuedVideo: The Future of Design Intelligence has Arrived
The future of design intelligence is here. The time to include CAD embedded design in your workflow is now. Today’s most innovative design and manufacturing companies rely on virtual simulation, concurrent with the design process, to bring great products to
... ContinuedVideo: Welcome to the Era of Simulation-Driven Engineering
Achieving speed and ensuring functionality might seem mutually exclusive. However, CAD-embedded simulation is bringing efficiency and effectiveness closer than ever, and SOLIDWORKS Simulation customers are already reaping the rewards. By using SOLIDWORKS Simulation, engineers in any industry can create and
... ContinuedAll Together Now with Lukas Jönsson Engineering: A Manufacturer’s One-Stop Shop
The world seems to be getting smaller and smaller these days. Tech giants like Google and Apple are constantly cranking out tools we need to access any information we could desire. Over the past decade we have experienced innovation and ingenuity
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