“SolidWorks Workgroup PDM helps us to efficiently manage the many projects we have. We have since upgraded to the SolidWorks Web Server, so we can manage vendor access to product design data. We have so many projects going at any one time that we often need design help and offload work to outside contractors. With the SolidWorks Web Server, we can provide vendors with access to our Vault, so they can place and pull product design data in and from the Vault in a secure, controlled fashion. This capability not only eliminates the need to manage files uploaded and downloaded to our FTP site, but also ensures that we are not stepping on each other’s models.”
“With SOLIDWORKS Simulation Professional software, we run linear static stress analyses not only on critical components but also on each subassembly of the rig. This capability has allowed us to reduce the weight of our rigs by 10 percent while maintaining strength and performance.”
“With SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium, we can optimize the part and the mold. With SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, we can attack the issues associated with placement and manufacturing of the cooling channels. These solutions allow us to approach the research from all angles.”
“The FIRST Robotics Competition is touted as the ‘varsity sport for the mind™,’ and gives middle and high school students the opportunity to compete while learning how to design and build robots.”
“Although there are land-based and underwater search and discovery robots, there’s nothing that works with mixed terrain, where you’re dealing with land, water, and deep mud.”
“Thank you SOLIDWORKS for sponsoring DriveWorks World again! We’re proud of our technology and the way so many customers use SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks together to work smarter. We look forward to you joining us at the event in April!”
“Acquiring SOLIDWORKS was vital to getting our product development effort off the ground. SOLIDWORKS is helping us succeed and grow. We couldn’t live without it.”
"With SOLIDWORKS, I can clearly visualize the core design and use mass properties to maintain the integrity of design dynamics while changing the densities of the inner and outer cores to achieve the desired performance."
“What Sigmund is really doing is orchestrating product development. Opinions too often set product directions, but objective data trumps opinion. We can now say, ‘Here are designs A, B, and C and the accompanying Sigmund studies. As you can see, Design B won’t meet the objective, so you’ve got to relax your quality standard or pick between A or C.’ With objective data, there’s nothing to argue about.”
"We are now completely compatible with most of our vendors, which makes working together much easier."
“Although CAMWorks is powerful, it’s just as easy to learn as SolidWorks software. By the end of the first day of our training (provided by SolidWorks and CAMWorks software reseller GoEngineer), we were making parts. Both pieces of software have been very intuitive and with an extremely short learning curve. By adding CAMWorks and SolidWorks Simulation to our design/prototype verification arsenal, we’ve been able to develop more complex designs while containing development time. We get a jump on the market while helping contractors thrive and construction workers stay safe. We’ll never know exactly how many injuries the WSX-1 will prevent.”
“With SOLIDWORKS and Stratasys solutions, we’re simply faster, especially for specialized tooling applications.”
“With the [SolidWorks Enterprise] PDM system, all of our plants run differently and more efficiently.”
“This project shows the power of the SOLIDWORKS Community. We brought together a team of specialists to address critical development needs and used SOLIDWORKS as our common language. We were under pressure to complete development quickly, and SOLIDWORKS helped us achieve our goal.”
“From what I understand, bringing a product like this to market in two years is very ambitious, and SOLIDWORKS design and PDM tools helped make it happen.”