“Solidworks gives us the tools that we need to not only design these types of complex shapes but also develop the molds and tooling required to produce them.”

"Virtually everything we do – including working with assemblies, generating drawings, and communicating with vendors – requires fewer steps in SolidWorks."

“To cover more ground and bett er prepare students for work in industry, we sought to tie in our Foundations class with the courses that follow, We wanted to give students the necessary tools to not only visualize a design but also communicate with engineers and work with manufacturing techniques …

"To match the continual curvature of today’s smartphones, we use a hybrid of surface and solid modeling in SOLIDWORKS. We find the fill and boundary surface tools give us the best results for controlling tangency and curvature to obtain the right shape. Creating the blends and transitions in our products …

“In order to maintain a lean design approach, I need a 3D rendering solution that generates the highest quality in the least amount of time. I found the perfect solution in SOLIDWORKS Visualize software.”

“Typically, we have to install several hundred pressure taps in a model, The eTAPS project is a way of also using our CAD and rapid prototyping technology to incorporate these pressure tubes in the physical model, rather than doing it by hand with a drill and glue.”

"We had SolidWorks up and running in a month and implemented PDMWorks Enterprise within a week."

“Using the real-time collision detection capabilities, we are able to detect areas of collision and interference on the computer, and fix them before building a single prototype. In the past, we would have had to build a prototype of the whole assembly to understand the same thing, a costly and …

“Every year, we need to update our existing product lines as well as put new products on the shelves. The pace of our product development efforts demands a flexible yet technically powerful design package.”

“If we didn’t have SOLIDWORKS Plastics, we wouldn’t have as much confidence in the manufacturability of a design. It helps us avoid going back and forth with the moldmaker after the fact, which saves time and reduces costs.”

“Advantage for [ECCO] in implementing SolidWorks Plastics is the ability to understand how a part is going to behave in tooling.”

“The light bar base was the largest injected-plastic part that we have made. With SOLIDWORKS Plastics, I was able to modify the design to improve the flow of plastic in the mold. I added a large post for the injection sprue and ribs heading out from the post to serve …

“We employ a fully automated brewhouse, so once a recipe is dialed in, the process can be completed using equipment and instrumentation, which allows for very precise brewing, In the brewhouse, automated systems communicate accurate temperatures and times to the brewers, thereby allowing for accurate control of each brew. The …

"SOLIDWORKS is a great CAD package because it makes us fast. The world moves fast, and we have to move faster to stay ahead of the competition. SOLIDWORKS is a key differentiator because we can maintain the speed that is critical to our success as the company grows."

“We do a lot of inventing and prototyping, and often may iterate on a part five times in a single day. SOLIDWORKS fits well with our approach. We’ve actually printed parts designed in SOLIDWORKS on one of our 3D printers for use on another 3D printer, a case in which …