Innova's SolidWorks Blogspot

I was pleased to notice Innova Systems featured in an article in this months Develop3D magazine. Innova customer Pemberton Dear recently designed a squeezy Marmite bottle using SolidWorks. As you can imagine, there were many challenges involved in working with a sticky, viscous substance like Marmite, and SolidWorks was key in ensuring the success of their solution. It was also great to see how Pemberton Dear used PhotoWorks as a invaluable tool in communicating ideas with the manufacturer.

Alan

I've got to admit, I'm not a Star Wars fan. I think this puts me in the minority, so i thought i should share this with everyone who does enjoy it.

I came across a link to a site where a guy from the US has designed and built his own tauntaun Halloween costume using SolidWorks (looks like he used SW07 though - he needs to upgrade!). Pretty impressive stuff, and top marks for effort!

I was visiting one of my friends this weekend, and he said to me "have a look at this". He took me into his garage and i was expecting to see another motorbike, but i was confronted by this:


I thought this was pretty cool, but even more so when i realised that it was designed in SolidWorks by one of Innova's customers Bailey Aviation (my friend was not so impressed by this fact!). We wanted to take it for a spin, but didn't think his Dad would be too happy about us helping ourselves to his new toy!

Birmingham based Westfield Sports Cars are a long standing Innova customer, and we were very pleased to hear they have released a new vehicle, the Sport Turbo, with full European Small-Series type approval (EuSS), meaning it can be sold across the continent.

SolidWorks was integral to the design process, used to modernise a classic shell to accept the Vauxhall 1600 Turbo engine from the Corsa VXR. Westfield have also revamped the interior design, giving a much more luxary look and feel. They are projecting total sales of 300 cars this year, which is great news for the British company.

Alan

Thanks to all of our subscription customers who came to Duxford Imperial War Museum to see SolidWorks 2010 launched last Friday.

A great set of presentations from Justin Burton were well received, and those that i got a chance to talk to (it was a busy day!) were excited about the new release.

On that note, I'd say, hold fire until SP1 before going live with 2010. It might also be wise to install it in parallel, and play with it on a 'pack-and go'd' assembly.

Alan