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Innova and SOLIDWORKS help Thomson Rail
Thomson Rail Equipment has specialised in the design and manufacture of specialised rail equipment for ten years. Design work was initially completed with a low cost 2d design package and rapidly moving on to AutoCad 2D.
Claydon Drills use SOLIDWORKS for business success
Claydon Drills design develop and manufacture seed drills for the Agricultural market, selling to 26 countries worldwide. Read on to find out how Claydon Drills have harnessed SOLIDWORKS to design better products and massively increase revenue.
Windows 10 compatibility with SOLIDWORKS
Technical Director, Ed Hawkins talks about SOLIDWORKS Windows 10 compatibility and the best features for a SOLIDWORKS engineer/designer…
Using blocks to create mechanisms in SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS is a great program for testing the validity of your mechanical designs, the program is built to make designing mechanisms as easy as possible. However, you may find that due to the complexity of some of your designs this can be a time consuming process if designing all the parts one by one…
Planes, trains and…bicycles?
We’re always amazed at how much influence SOLIDWORKS has on our lives, so we were interested to read how the design of the new family of Class 800 series trains from Hitachi – which constitute a step change in improved capacity, reliability and reduced environmental impact has been touched by SOLIDWORKS.
Customise the Command Manager for common tasks
If you find yourself drilling down into menus all the time to find a command that you use on a regular basis, why not use the customization feature to modify the tool bars so any commands you use regularly are right at your fingertips?
Useful tools for editing imported models in SOLIDWORKS
This blog post covers some of the SOLIDWORKS tools that can be used to change the shape of your designs, allowing you to adjust your models in multiple ways.