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Music is Magic: Creating a Custom Chair
The SOLIDWORKS Magic Wheelchair build team is back at it again, designing and building the most epic and most complex Magic Wheelchair yet.
... ContinuedHow SOLIDWORKS Turned Ernesto Mosqueda’s Life Around
Some people do not realize what they’re truly passionate about until much later in their lives. You might think you want to be in a certain industry or field for the rest of your life, until that back fires and
... ContinuedPicoBrew’s Latest Kickstarter Project Brings Homebrewing to Everyone
Love the idea of homebrewing, but are intimidated by the process? The new Pico Model C was made for you. Designed in SOLIDWORKS, learn how the Pico Model C makes it easier than ever anyone to homebrew delicious beer.
... ContinuedHardware Startup Myomo Partners with SOLIDWORKS for Success
This blog discusses the mutually beneficial partnership between startup Myomo and SOLIDWORKS.
... ContinuedEffeffe Berlinetta: A Car Of Yesterday, Conceived Today, Built in 3D CAD
Effeffe Berlinetta is an homage to classic Italian sports cars of yore. See the amazing how amazing craftsmanship and 3D CAD technology kicked this car into high gear.
... ContinuedLan | Abar Handling Technologies Do Lean Manufacturing with SOLIDWORKS
Packaging is vital to the goods industry. Don’t believe us? Try walking home from the supermarket carrying half a litre of soup without a container. However, packaging is even more integral to the pharmaceutical industry. Secure, impenetrable handling of sterile
... ContinuedWaste Not, Cook Hot: How SOWtech Sizzles with SOLIDWORKS
Recycling organic waste into power might sound like sci-fi, but biogas is a major player in the world of sustainable energy. In crisis-hit parts of the world, it enables communities to both reduce their waste and cook with gas. That’s
... ContinuedBailey’s Caravan Increases Production Efficiency by 80 Percent with SOLIDWORKS
The motor home: a neat holiday apartment with the added bonus of mobility. For decades, holidaymakers have sought to hit the road in their home-from-homes for a vacation that epitomises freedom. Caravan experts Bailey help them do just that. Who
... ContinuedMetals Fabrication Firm Uses Engineering Ingenuity to Bring Home a Silver Medal
Learn how NuQuest, a design and manufacturing firm, was able to create the medal-winning skeleton race sled for Team USA with the help of SOLIDWORKS.
... 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
... ContinuedHow SOLIDWORKS is Helping LA Design
Functionality. Desirability. Innovation. It’s what separates good products from great products. Just ask LA Design. With an award shelf straining at the hinges and an enviously varied client base, it’s safe to say it has earned its’ design stripes. Best of all?
... ContinuedBattleBots Arms Itself with SOLIDWORKS
If you’re not familiar with BattleBots®, you may want to look into it. Its small teams of engineers, designers, robot enthusiasts who get together and build robots built to destroy other robots. ABC is now into its second season of
... ContinuedIF-Adamas – Advancing 3D Printing Technology with SOLIDWORKS
Ideas – they’re the protein that feeds innovation and product development. Without ideas, there wouldn’t be any problems for engineers and designers to solve. Now, 3D printing is perhaps one of the most astonishing ideas of this generation. SOLIDWORKS has
... ContinuedDean Ovel: SOLIDWORKS and 24 Hours in a Human Hamster Wheel
Most people run in Lycra… Some run in fancy dress… Dean Ovel runs in a human hamster wheel, sealed inside a cage, in the middle of a busy high street in Southend. This is the story of how SOLIDWORKS became
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS is Helping Build the World’s Fastest Steam Locomotive: Part 1
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) T1 Steam Locomotive Trust is using SOLIDWORKS to build the world’s fastest steam locomotive, the PRR T1 5550, which represents the pinnacle of steam locomotive design in the United States. Evidence suggests that the T1 locomotives
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