{"id":298,"date":"2012-03-19T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/landscape-forms-adding-beauty-to-outdoor-furniture-cutting-design-cycles-by-30-with-solidworks"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T10:58:05","slug":"landscape-forms-adding-beauty-to-outdoor-furniture-cutting-design-cycles-by-30-with-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/03\/landscape-forms-adding-beauty-to-outdoor-furniture-cutting-design-cycles-by-30-with-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Forms: adding beauty to outdoor furniture &amp; cutting design cycles by 30% with SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landscapeforms.com\" target=\"_self\">Landscape Forms<\/a> is a Michigan-based company that makes outdoor site furniture. If you&#39;re wondering what that means, they&#39;re the folks that design and manufacture stuff like transit stops, benches, planters, tables, chairs\u2014you get the idea. You&#39;ve probably come across their work dozens of times and never known it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2016763fd9317970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LFI_Metro40_Rest_Backed_Wood_original\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2016763fd9317970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2016763fd9317970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"LFI_Metro40_Rest_Backed_Wood_original\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting things about Landscape Forms is their focus on beauty and aesthetics. They believe that institutional doesn&#39;t have to equal ugly, and they work with world-class designers and architects to add beauty and style to outdoor landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>They were nice enough to work with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=Landscape-Forms&amp;id=4604&amp;scid=sm_bl_landscape\" target=\"_self\">a case study<\/a> and video, in which CAD Engineer Todd Halstead describes how Landscape Forms uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10141_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_landscape\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks 3D CAD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10169_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_landscape\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks Simulation, SolidWorks Flow Simulation<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10157_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_landscape\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks Enterprise PDM<\/a> to help reduce design cycles while expanding its product line by 350%.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to making product development more efficient, SolidWorks solutions have enabled Landscape Forms to improve quality and increase innovation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/successes\/customer-story.htm?record=Landscape-Forms&amp;id=4604&amp;scid=sm_bl_landscape\" target=\"_self\">Download the case study<\/a> and watch the video to learn how SolidWorks design, analysis, and PDM solutions are helping them work smarter and faster in the creation of outdoor site furniture with style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBN8H0TC-mY\" width=\"475\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landscape Forms is a Michigan-based company that makes outdoor site furniture. 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You&#39;ve probably come across their<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/03\/landscape-forms-adding-beauty-to-outdoor-furniture-cutting-design-cycles-by-30-with-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-design","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}