“The topography landscapes that mountains create are art pieces in themselves. We find ourselves utilizing actual topography scapes in our designs.”

"We believed that using Inventor and CADKEY software was holding us back in some respects. We were looking for a single system that was easier to use, more capable, and better suited to meeting our needs and goals and found SolidWorks CAD software."

"What has enabled me to increase efficiency and decrease costs is the ability to evolve the design and make design changes very quickly in SOLIDWORKS."

“We both come from families of blue-collar workers, and my father passed away from a heart attack on a construction site."

“We needed to be able to handle any brand of helmet while increasing machine capacity to 36 helmets to satisfy ridership demands. Using SolidWorks software, we were able to develop the sophisticated internal helmet delivery mechanisms and assemblies required to meet our goals.”

“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.”

“I was trained by xLM Solutions; I then trained the CAD group, purchasing, and the work center leaders, and the work center leaders trained their personnel. The training was a breeze—no training session took longer than an hour, with most lasting only 30 minutes. Everyone found it very easy to …

"SolidWorks CAD software allows us to collaborate on designs efficiently and accurately with our suppliers, which reduces production times and lets us quickly begin testing the boat on the water."

"Our systems involve high-speed motion, so we need to verify the vibration characteristics of our designs and optimize the stiffness-to-mass ratio as much as possible. In today’s fast-paced world, we simply don’t have the time to do something a second time. With SOLIDWORKS Simulation, we have an integrated tool that …

“Time is the critical factor, and with the fast solver in SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium software, we can solve a fullassembly contact analysis in a couple of hours. Who else can do that? When you consider the time and prototyping costs that virtual product development using CAE helps us save, it …

“By enabling us to simulate and accurately predict how structural and kinematic design behavior will affect performance, SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SOLIDWORKS Motion software provide significant advantages in terms of a better project quality, which means that we produce better-performing and more reliable equipment.”

“Weight is a critical design issue. While a mechanical engineer is interested in structural stresses and the positioning of the drivetrain, a naval architect focuses on hydrodynamics—balancing weight for stability and maneuverability—which affects how electrical engineers position solar cells, batteries, circuits, and motors. We all have to work together, and …

“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 …

“An 80 percent, bottom-line cost reduction is significant. The beauty of using SolidWorks to develop the Delta Rack is that we were able to achieve this kind of a breakthrough while reducing our development cycle by at least 75 percent.”

“Some were good, some were bad, but none was even close to perfect. The trickiest part is easily the knob, which is crucial for performance. We wanted our knob design to start with the best qualities of what already existed and then reflect our innovations.”