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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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Accelerating Wheel Design with SOLIDWORKS Simulation: A Forgeline Case Study
Forgeline Motorsports runs finite element analysis on every wheel they design. By taking a deliberately practical approach — simulating only the critical load case, using a remote load instead of...
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What Is PDM? A Practical Guide to Product Data Management
Product data management (PDM) is the foundation of engineering data management: it gives engineering teams one secure, version-controlled vault for every CAD file, drawing, and document — so there is...
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The 7 Best Ways to Help Automate Your SOLIDWORKS Designs
Automating tasks in SOLIDWORKS is a great way to improve productivity, reduce repetitive work, and make our work lives easier. While most of us are familiar with basic shortcuts (which you should be...
View Article6 Ways Private SOLIDWORKS Training at Hawk Ridge Systems Pays Off for Your Team
When it comes to training at Hawk Ridge Systems, I have a unique perspective because I am an employee and a former training customer. I have given a lot of training, and I have received a lot of...
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The 11 Nerdiest (and Coolest) Things We Ever Built with SOLIDWORKS and 3D...
Every engineer has a folder of projects that have no business case, no customer, and no excuse — just curiosity and access to good tools. We dug through a decade of the Hawk Ridge Systems archive and...
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How to Automate Drawing Creation in SOLIDWORKS (2026 Guide)
Engineering drawings are the primary method of controlling and communicating manufacturing, inspection, and quality information for the products you design. Documenting your designs with clear,...
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