Innovation
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
... ContinuedNeed For Speed: The Race For the 300mph Road Car
109 years? It’s been a long time since Henry T Ford’s first mass-produced automobile rolled off the production line. Things have come a long way since then. Quite literally. Cars have developed substantially over the years. Today’s drivers don’t know
... ContinuedChanging the Perception of Engineers
Imagine an engineer. Who are they? What do they look like? What do they do? When prompted, most will picture a bespectacled white male grasping a pencil and a calculator. It’s a perception that’s got to change because it’s a
... ContinuedIs Augmented Reality the Future of Surgery?
Cheaper. Faster. Safer. When it comes to transforming medical surgery, those are the targets. Augmented reality has the exciting potential to tick all three boxes. Meet Rafael Grossmann… He’s a self-proclaimed healthcare futurist. He’s done multiple TEDx talks. Back in
... 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
... 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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 2018: the Tools to Unlock Your Design Potential
SOLIDWORKS CEO Gian Paolo Bassi shares his vision of how SOLIDWORKS is providing the design tools of tomorrow for today’s engineers and designers with the new functionality in SOLIDWORKS 2018.
... 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
... ContinuedGig ‘Em 2: The Summer’s Most Exciting Entrepreneurial Engineer
Last year, our Community and User Advocacy Manager, Rachel York, interviewed a mechanical engineering entrepreneur from Texas A&M University, who used SOLIDWORKS to help create his own business. This year, Rachel and I wanted to catch up with him. This
... ContinuedFancy a Night in the UK’s Most Luxurious Observatory?
Few sights capture the imagination like a star-filled sky. Here to put adventure-seekers in the box seat for taking in thrilling skyscapes, is an ingeniously built pop-up cabin in Wales. This is the story of how an ambitious SOLIDWORKS design
... ContinuedThe 3DExperience Lab: How Interns Are Becoming the Experts
Interns usually have a certain reputation of being undermined by their company’s full-time employees and bosses. The stereotypical intern seems to do menial work such as, get coffee and doughnuts for the rest of the company, go down the hallway
... ContinuedHow MOEF is Bringing Us Images of an Alien Landscape…
We know more about space than we do the depths of our oceans. Deep sea diving can bring us the most fabulous footage and imagery of our submerged landscapes, but obtaining those images isn’t without its challenges. It’s taken for
... ContinuedVisitech: Making Cricket Safer with SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Briefed with reinventing the best helmet in cricket, many product designers would be stumped. Visitech stepped up to the crease and knocked the challenge for six – with a little help from SOLIDWORKS Simulation…
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Saves Cambridge Industrial Design from Getting in a Flap
Successful products marry innovative answers to intuitive design. Functionality plus form. Cambridge Industrial Design knows all about that, with a varied range of illustrious clients including Fender, AGA, Philips, and Wharfedale. Enticing product design is the core of its business
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