Screen Technology Ltd (www.screentechnology.com) develops innovative large display screens for industrial and commercial markets, typically for locations such as airports, railway stations, shopping centres and control rooms.

The displays consist of an array of standard-sized low-cost LCD panels, with the image from each LCD being magnified by a patented optical element.

The modules are tiled together, hiding the gap between the LCD panels. Bright, high-resolution displays can be produced in a variety of shapes and sizes from 68" diagonal to 200" diagonal and larger, including non-standard banner and portrait formats.


Screen Technology Ltd chose SolidWorks for its ease of use and sophistication, as well as for the range of design and analysis tools that are available with the software. Early prototypes can be designed quickly, and the 3D models can be analysed and refined through the product development cycle without the need to recreate data.

As the designs are prepared for manufacture, fully toleranced parts drawings, exploded assembly views and bills of material are linked to the CAD model, eliminating the need for time-consuming and error-prone manual cross-referencing.

Multiple configurations of the CAD model are used to ensure that any changes to Screen Technologies Ltd core display design are automatically fed through to all display variants.Built in SolidWorks tools are used to assure hole alignment, help prevent clashes, check the weight of proposed designs and even provide a finite-element analysis of critical components. SolidWorks files can also be e-mailed to suppliers using E-Drawings to produce rapid prototype models of new parts. This provides an extremely powerful tool to accelerate new product development

Nick Smartt, Senior Project Engineer at Screen Technology Ltd comments, "SolidWorks has proved to be a highly capable design package and has drastically increased our speed of product development, improved the quality of our designs and reduced the number of prototypes required. After experiencing the benefits of using SolidWorks as a design tool, it would be inconceivable to go back to developing products in 2D."

[NB: This case study was written by Screen Technologies Ltd]