Haughton Design, a long standing customer of Solid Solutions and established users of SolidWorks have been working alongside Simba, to help them create a fresh aesthetic for the new line of tine cultivators.The final design was featured on the front cover of Develop 3D...Read the full article
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Date: Tuesday December 2011
SolidWorks 2012 is now available to download from the SolidWorks Customer portal (http://customerportal.solidworks.com)
Want to see what's new? Register for a Solid Solutions Launch Event by clicking the banner above or if you can't wait until then... take a look here
SolidWorks 2012 DVDs have not been produced yet. As soon as we receive the shipment from So...
Date: Tuesday October 2011
The September issue of Eureka magazine featured a double page spread of Solid Solutions, including an interview with Solid Solutions Managing Director, Alan Sampson. To see the article click here.
Eureka has a unique blend of innovation, technology and engineering applications stories that make it the magazine of choice for design engineers.
It covers the latest design comp...
Date: Friday September 2011
Registration for the SolidWorks 2012 Launch events are now open!
Solid Solutions are proud to announce registration for the SolidWorks 2012 Launch events is now open. This year we are pulling out all the stops to make the events for the 20th release of the 3D MCAD package our best yet.
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Date: Wednesday September 2011
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Date: Tuesday June 2011
The latest Solid Solutions Customer Event is titled "Get the Most out of SolidWorks" and is proving highly successful.
Attendance is at an all time high, and rightly so as it is a free event aimed at all ranges of abilities with the intention of allowing you to get more from the CAD tool used by millions every day.
The latest event was held at the office...
Date: Wednesday March 2011
How about taking a look around our head office without leaving your desk?
A new product coming soon to the SolidWorks suite is Post3D which has come about from 3DVIA Scenes. A customer of ours, and famous design company, Tom Dixon was featured in Develop3D Magazine using this technology for an online exhibition.
Since our new head office was designed with SolidWorks, we dec...
Date: Tuesday January 2011
SolidWorks 2011 has arrived!
The SolidWorks 2011 DVD packs for all eligible Solid Solutions Customers have just arrived from SolidWorks Corporation in the US. We are currently preparing for them to be despatched to all 3500+ of our customers.
It is a big logistical task, so it will take time for all the DVDs to be shipped. They will be with you over the course of the next c...
Date: Wednesday December 2010
Young blood Putting CAD in schools is a promising way of encouraging young people to look again at a career in engineering. By Ben Sampson (Taken from http://www.profeng.com)There is an accepted problem that the education system does not produce enough people who are interested in engineering careers. Most educators would admit that a main reason students avoid engineering-rela...
Date: Thursday October 2010
We are proud to announce that we have moved to a larger support center in order to better support our ever-growing SolidWorks customer base. We have a prestigous new Customer Area where training and seminar attendees can intermingle and exchange ideas. Multi-media screens show rolling product demonstrations. The training suites are fully air-conditioned, 1Gb networked and inter...
Date: Friday September 2010
Is my CAD Reseller Elite?SolidWorks Corporation sets standards of excellence to ensure technical competencies within their support, sales and training functions. These standards measure the competencies through formal and rigorous examinations covering ten certifications. An engineer that attains seven key passes qualifies with 'Elite' status. The Elite status is highly cove...
Date: Monday August 2010
Last week, Dassault Systemes announced the launch of DraftSight. An open, free, professional-grade 2D CAD product with an online community accessible through DraftSight.com. Its aim, to provide all CAD users access to new services and products to "unlock valuable data stored in billions of DWG files."DraftSight provides users with a better way to read, write and ...
Date: Wednesday June 2010
The Solid Solutions SolidWorks Tips and Tricks page has been updated! It has been redesigned to load faster to get you to the tips and tricks you want to see as quickly as possible. There are currently 4 pages full of useful hints, tips, tricks and techniques you can use with SolidWorks to become a more productive user. http://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/SolidWorks-Demo-Videos/Tip...
Date: Tuesday May 2010
To showcase how versatile SolidWorks is, we thought we would share some information about the Yike Bike. It is a innovative new electric bike from New Zealand, which was designed in SolidWorks. This new folding bike is based on the penny farthing, and allows riders to ride around at speeds of 20mph!
The Yike bike was featured in Time magazine's top 5...
Date: Wednesday May 2010
A Warwick firm is building a solid future after expanding its network of offices in the UK and becoming a global powerhouse.
Solid Solutions, based at the University of Warwick Science Park’s Warwick Innovation Centre, is preparing to open its eighth office after experiencing one of the most successful periods in the company’s 12-year history.
The business suppl...
Date: Friday April 2010
We are excited to inform you that as of 17th April 2010, SolidWorks Sustainability will be available to buy online from the SolidWorks Sustainability website (www.solidworks.com/sustainability). The latest SolidWorks product performs full Life Cysle Assessment on parts and assemblies, helping you reduce the Environmental impact of your designs. For more information click here. ...
Date: Friday April 2010
Solid Solutions invite you to attend the SolidWorks Innovation Day Virtual Event. Through this online venue, you can attend the conference for one day, every week, until the end of June. Every 3rd week, the focus of the conference will change, and new presentations will be added to the virtual auditorium! In this online conference, you will find:- Keynote presentations by Solid...
Date: Tuesday March 2010
Beginning with SolidWorks 2010 SP3, the 2D editor formerly known as DWGeditor will be re-named to SolidWorks 2D Editor. In addition to the re-naming, this product will no longer ship as part of the standard SolidWorks installation. SolidWorks 2D Editor will now be available to most SolidWorks customers via a quick and easy download from the SolidWorks customer portal. Click LIN...
Date: Thursday March 2010
The Brompton folding bicycle is a fantastic pieces of British design. Working from their base in West London, Brompton are currently producing 26,000 folding bikes a year. The story of how they began and how they got to where they are today is in the current issue of Develop3D.
From using pen and paper, Brompton Cycles have been through the process of transferring all their w...
Date: Thursday March 2010
Agentdraw have launched a product competition (the Young Designer Competition) to highlight young British design talent. It was a response to the Phillipe Starck Programme, Design for Life. This was purported to highlight the great design talent in the UK, however, it seemed to the opposite, with the programme stating that there had been no decent design out of the UK for som...
Date: Monday February 2010
On top of the thousands of commercial products and engineering solutions the SolidWorks has been utilised for, there is now a new use for the software, building dinosaurs! Over at the Griffin Hoverwork factory in the Isle of Wight, Bob and Jack Rushton have been helping researchers from the University of Portsmouth construct giant pterosaur models. Some of these models will hav...
Date: Wednesday February 2010
Coming up over the next week is the annual SolidWorks World event, this year held in Anaheim, California. It promises to be an eventful time, with more than 150 in-depth training sessions alongside numerous hands-on learning opportunities. More than 100 SolidWorks-designed products will be on display along with hundreds of partners demonstrating software products that complemen...
Date: Friday January 2010
Since the release of Windows 7, there have been a number of enquiries about compatibilty. Below is some infomation on this:
1. SolidWorks EDU products 2010-2011 academic year (Education Edition, Student Edition, and Student Design Kit) will officially support the Microsoft® Windows 7 operating system. This new release is planned in the spring of 2010. 2. SolidWorks EDU pro...
Date: Tuesday November 2009
This week is has been announced that SolidWorks 3D CAD design and engineering package was extensively used to help develop the squeezy bottles now used for Marmite and Colman's Mustard.
Read the full article in our SolidWorks Blog here....
Date: Friday October 2009
In the Global market today, it is increasingly the case that for a company to succeed, it needs to be responsible. More and more consumers are demanding "green" products. Solidworks Sustainability helps designers using SolidWorks to understand the impact of their work to the environment. It is an easy to use program that integrates fully with SolidWorks, allowing info...
Date: Monday September 2009
On 18 May 2009 Solid Solutions Management, the UK’s largest and main SolidWorks reseller, purchased CadConnect, the Newcastle and Leeds based SolidWorks reseller, which commenced trading in 2001. Solid Solutions will operate this business as a wholly owned subsidiary trading as Solid Solutions CadConnect. ....read more...
Date: Tuesday September 2009
SolidWorks acquires CircuitWorks provider Priware - March 26, 2008 - SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray. "As products become ‘smarter’ , the lines are blurring between electronic and mechanical industries, and this acquisition is a natural step toward helping engineers be proficient in this climate.” SolidWorks is an indispensable platform for complex mechatronics s...
Date: Friday July 2009
It's in the cards - From 1984 to 1994 Jon Hirschtick (Co-founder of SolidWorks Corporation) , was a member of the MIT blackjack team. Their exploits were chronicled in the best-selling book "Bringing Down the House" and are now the subject of the movie, "21," which opened Friday, March 28. ( In Metro West Daily) by Bob Tremblay: Link , In Design News by Beth...
Date: Friday July 2009
Greentec fuels energy-efficient home systems designed with SolidWorks 3D CAD software enables U.K. company to design integrated heating and cooling systems that cut homeowner costs and reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent CONCORD, Mass., May 5, 2008 — Spearheading the move to reduce household carbon emissions, U.K.-based Greentec Systems, is using SolidWorks® 3D CAD ...
Date: Friday July 2009
Quick design turnaround and easy documentation process help UK-based company move products to market faster. CONCORD, Mass., Oct. 6, 2008 — International bathroom fixtures company Aqualux Products Ltd. has cut between 25 to 40 percent off the time it needs to produce documentation for its shower enclosures and bath screens with SolidWorks® 3D CAD software and 3DVIA&re...
Date: Friday July 2009
Simon Turner is one of just five UK engineers to qualify for the 'Elite Engineer' status. This has required proof of competency by him passing seven SolidWorks Certification exams covering SolidWorks, Support, Simulation and Product Data Management.......of course API is not yet a certified competency but if it were Simon would be the first to pass this one too! During 2009 Sol...
Date: Friday July 2009
Solid Solutions are for the sixth succesive year the Top UK reseller. Clearly there are lots of awards for all aspects of SolidWorks business ......these include support, training, staff and sales. As a company we started the business in 11th place in the UK and through continual improvement and focus on customer support we have consistently achieved the number one position. Th...
Date: Friday July 2009
Wider coverage in the North for SolidWorks United Kingdom, Cambridge, May 18, 2009 – On 13 May 2009 Solid Solutions Management, the UK’s largest and main SolidWorks reseller, purchased CadConnect, the Newcastle and Leeds based SolidWorks reseller, which commenced trading in 2001. Solid Solutions will operate this business as a wholly owned subsidiary trading as Soli...
Date: Thursday July 2009