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Begin Here: solidThinking Inspire

solidThinking Inspire can help every design engineer quickly create dramatically lighter structures and better understand the effects of material placement in whatever they’re developing.

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solidThinking Inspire in Action: C Clip Design

This video follows the design of a part from concept to production. It shows how solidThinking Inspire can help every design engineer quickly create dramatically lighter structures and better understand the effects of material placement in whatever they’re developing. New users need, at most, just a few hours of training and many require none at all.

Where Ideas Take Shape: solidThinking Evolve

solidThinking Evolve allows industrial designers to develop forms faster, using either a Windows PC or Mac. Evolve captures an initial sketch, then allows exploration of styling alternatives and the visualization of products with high quality renderings generated in real time. It combines both the modeling freedom of organic surfaces and the control of parametric solids with its unique ConstructionTree history feature.
INSPIRE Customer Stories

solidThinking Customer Story: Peter Macapia

Dr. Peter Macapia discussed solidThinking’s part in reinventing structural systems and rethinking what a building is.

Scania

Scania uses Inspire to speed up its design and development process to produce lighter and more efficient components.

AAM

AAM employed Inspire to redesign an automotive carrier with less weight (20%) and material usage than the original.

Empire/Renishaw

Renishaw and Empire Cycles used solidThinking Inspire’s concept generation to help design the seat post for the world’s first metal additive manufactured bicycle frame.

LEIBER Group

LEIBER utilized Inspire to design and optimize a vehicle suspension beam, resulting in over 50% mass savings.

Studio-X

Studio-X utilized Inspire’s structural generation to ensure Structural Stability and Design for an award winning pavilion system.

HardMarque

HardMarque used both solidThinking Inspire and Evolve for concept generation and design refinement for an additive manufactured titanium piston.

Evenflo Juvenile Products

Inspire has shown value to Evenflo as a tool for “sustaining engineering” where fast turnaround for functional improvements is essential.

Race Face

Race Face utilized Inspire to design and manufacture a bicycle crank with increased stiffness and strength targets, yet the same weight as the current part.

Peter Macapia, LabDORA

Architect Peter Macapia is exploring new frontiers in architectural design; a different way of looking at the design of buildings thanks to solidThinking Inspire.
EVOLVE Customer Stories

solidThinking Customer Story: Novellini

The Novellini Group is a pacesetter in Europe in the manufacturing of bathroom solutions and wellness products.

solidThinking Customer Story: XOX Audio Tools

XOX Audio Tools brings high design and advanced technologies to create cutting edge musical instruments.

solidThinking Customer Story: Pininfarina Extra

Innovation, Essentiality, and Elegance are the three main values of Pininfarina Extra. Set up in 1986 out of a desire to bring Pininfarina design into sectors other than the automotive industry, the roots of Pininfarina Extra identity lie in the cultural and industrial experience it has gained throughout the eighty years the Pininfarina Group has been in the car manufacturing business.

Novedge Webinar #96: From Sketch to Production with solidThinking Evolve

Evolve enables Sundog Creative Director, Michal Hrk to move from an initial sketch, explore styling alternatives, and visualize new products with realistic renderings, before exporting the digital models required by others in the product development process. As guest presenter, Michal will demo a typical workflow with solidThinking Evolve -a key tool in their design process.

Steve McGugan Industrial Design

Award winning industrial designer Steve McGugan uses Evolve to design and model a range of unique products.

Shanghai Arts and Crafts Factory

The Shanghai Arts and Crafts Factory utilized a process incorporating solidThinking Evolve to generate ideal designs and renderings for parade floats.

Dimensions Furniture

Dimensions Furniture uses Evolve to design and render its furniture products for presentation to buyers and handoff to manufacturing teams.

HardMarque

HardMarque used both solidThinking Inspire and Evolve for concept generation and design refinement for an additive manufactured titanium piston.

Sundog Eyewear

Sundog uses solidThinking Evolve to explore styling alternatives, visualize new products with realistic renderings and export the digital model.

Automotive Lighting

Automotive Lighting has used solidThinking products since 2001 for ideation, development, and visualization.

Novellini Group

The Novellini Group is a pacesetter in Europe in the manufacture of bathroom solutions and wellness products.

XOX Audio Tools

XOX Audio Tools utilizes high design and advanced technologies to create cutting-edge musical instruments.

Pininfarina Extra

Innovation, Essentiality, and Elegance are the three values of Pininfarina Extra. See how solidThinking products help them.

Ron Mendell

Ron Mendell is one of the most talented concept artists serving the motion picture industry.

Bros Manifatture

Bros Manifatture is a “superbrand” in the world of fashion jewelry and watches with over 200 new products each year.

TokyoFlash

TokyoFlash is a world leader in the design and sales of unique watches. They use Evolve to speed product development.

Korg

Korg is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide.
In the News

Optimization with Inspire.wmv

Virtual Desktop MCAD News, Video Edition:
September 25, 2012
Design optimization with Altair Engineering’s Inspire

Concept modeling in solidThinking Evolve.wmv

Virtual Desktop MCAD News, Video Edition:
August 24, 2012
senior editor Kenneth Wong, Desktop Engineering magazine
concept modeling with NURBS in SolidThinking Evolve 9.0