Prototyping
For small to mid-size businesses, manufacturing beautifully intricate product parts typically means contracting a supplier to do the job. But what if you were able to *print* your own parts in your own “home”? Some entrepreneurs are already doing it! Thanks to the advances in three-dimensional printing, your manufacturing power may soon lie in the [...]
The benefits of rapid prototyping have long been self-evident: earlier visibility into tricky aspects of a design and more chances to refine your ideas mean getting to market faster with fewer mistakes. But as the typical product has become a symphony of electrical, mechanical and software components, prototyping the physical interaction between your product and [...]
SolidWorks leadership issued an internal challenge to a small group of hands-on designers: design an electric vehicle using SolidWorks and build it in 9 months. The result? This hot rod, which uses an electric bus motor that delivers 500+ ft-lbs of torque and launches this neo-vintage beauty to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds. And that’s [...]
