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8 Automation ROI KPIs to Track, Plus a Prompt to Run on Your Own Data
You added automation to your shop floor or engineering workflow. Now leadership wants to know whether it is paying off — and “it feels faster” will not survive a budget review. The answer lives in...
View ArticleUpgrade Without Breaking Anything: Licensing, Install & IT Prep for...
SOLIDWORKS 2027 rewards the teams that prepare. The upgrade itself is rarely the hard part — the disruptions come from skipped backups, license servers upgraded in the wrong order, and PDM...
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Why Choose DraftSight: A Practical Guide to Your 2D CAD Options
Moving to 3D does not mean all your 2D work goes away. You may design your products in SOLIDWORKS and still need to update a plant layout, revise a supplier drawing or maintain years of existing DWG...
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SOLIDWORKS vs. Fusion 360: A Practical Look at Strengths & Limits
I have spent more than 20 years working alongside engineering teams using a wide range of CAD tools, including SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Fusion 360. More importantly, I have spent that time observing...
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Not Your Grandfather’s FDM: Stratasys Production Tooling at Hawk Ridge Systems
Most engineers still hear “Stratasys” and picture FDM — filament, prototypes, the printer in the corner of the lab. That picture is incomplete. In a Hawk Ridge Systems session with Stratasys, Fran...
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HSMWorks Discontinued: Best Alternatives for SOLIDWORKS Users
If your shop programs CNC toolpaths with HSMWorks inside SOLIDWORKS, the calendar just got real. Autodesk has confirmed HSMWorks end of sale and set a hard end-of-life date of March 25, 2028. After...
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5 Signs Your Manufacturing Process Isn’t as Connected as You Think
How to Tell If Your Manufacturing Process Is Really Connected If one small design change causes downstream chaos — wrong-revision builds, mismatched BOMs, late shipments — your systems aren’t truly...
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The Digital Thread: Why Connected Data Is Mission Critical for Good, Fast,...
What is The Digital Thread? (The short answer) The digital thread is the single, continuous flow of a product's data — its designs, revisions, BOMs, simulations, toolpaths, and production records —...
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Get the Manufacturing Floor Operating as Fast as Your Best Engineer Thinks
What an Agile Manufacturing Floor Gains from Connected Data Every manufacturer says agility matters. Most still fund it like a machine problem or a three-year roadmap problem. It is neither. Agility is...
View ArticleA Good First Print Isn’t Proof You’re Ready to Scale
Design. Validate. Scale. is a five-part fireside chat series from Hawk Ridge Systems and A3D Manufacturing on how a product moves from concept to production. In Episode 3, Validating Before You Scale,...
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Extending the Digital Thread: An Introduction to StartProto
AI in manufacturing pays off after you connect trustworthy product and production data – the digital thread – not before. In this Hawk Ridge Systems webinar, Cameron Carson, Senior VP of Engineering...
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SOLIDWORKS Manage vs. 3DEXPERIENCE: Which PLM Path Fits Your Team?
Hawk Ridge Systems offers two PLM paths for SOLIDWORKS users from Dassault Systèmes: SOLIDWORKS Manage, which builds on the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional infrastructure you may already run, and the...
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Speeding Up Transient Simulations with Flow Freezing
Why Transient Cooling Simulations Take So Long Transient simulations can take significant time to solve when different physical processes occur at very different rates. If the flow around a part...
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When Single User Licensing Is the Right Choice for Your Next SOLIDWORKS...
Understanding Product Levels, Device Licensing, and Single User Licensing Figure: SOLIDWORKS Design running as a locally installed CAD application while connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for...
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3DEXPERIENCE: How to Start Automating Your CAD Designs with SOLIDWORKS AI Labs
You may have felt the pain of systematically creating each view in your drawing or consulting SOLIDWORKS API help documentation to write your new macro. SOLIDWORKS AI Labs can now automate tasks just...
View ArticlePrint It or Mold It? Ask Per Part, Not Per Product: Choosing the Right...
Design. Validate. Scale. is a five-part fireside chat series from Hawk Ridge Systems and A3D Manufacturing on how a product moves from concept to production. Episode 2, Choosing the Right...
View ArticleThe First DFM Question Isn’t How Tight. It’s How Many.
Design. Validate. Scale. is a five-part fireside chat series from Hawk Ridge Systems and A3D Manufacturing on how a product moves from concept to production. In Episode 1, Design for Manufacturing...
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical: Troubleshooting Environment Archive Failures
It can be frustrating when a SOLIDWORKS Electrical Environment Archive completes with reported failures but never tells you which symbols, footprints, or projects are responsible. In a large...
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The Engineer’s Guide to Token Usage With SOLIDWORKS AI
Artificial intelligence in 3D CAD design has evolved beyond a novel feature into an everyday engineering necessity. With the rollout of Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS AI Virtual Companions — AURA, LEO,...
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How Much Does a 3D Printer Cost? 2026 Price Guide
How much it really costs: Anywhere from about $200 all the way past $500,000, depending on technology, build volume, materials, and support.Vendor list prices move often — new packages, promotions,...
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