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3 Ways to Fight Rising Costs and Labor Challenges in Manufacturing
Manufacturing costs are escalating partly due to material prices, supply chain breakdowns, along with labor cost increases and shortages. When adding shop personnel, we’re often faced with the...
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How to Efficiently Manage the Supply Chain Process with 3D Printing
Supply chains are a necessary evil. You can’t get a product to the consumer if you don’t have the right materials, suppliers, producers, distributors, and assembly mechanisms. But each of those...
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6 Easy Steps to Benchmarking and Improving Your SOLIDWORKS Performance
Getting optimal performance in SOLIDWORKS is a must for those of us who use it day to day. When SOLIDWORKS runs more smoothly, so do the rest of our CAD-related design processes. While there are...
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How to Fix the Most Frustrating Import Issues with 3D Mesh Files
Having problems with your mesh? A few simple adjustments during the export process or minor post-processing steps can prevent major headaches for CAD designers. When you prepare your files before...
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Why Companies Use SOLIDWORKS to Design High Tech
If you’re designing cutting-edge tech products, you need tools that keep up with the demands of modern engineering. SOLIDWORKS isn’t just a CAD program — it’s a full-fledged design, simulation, and...
View Article3 Actionable Strategies for Manufacturers Dealing with New Tariffs
Tariffs are a tool in a long game for politicians, but for engineers and manufacturers, they are a pain in one’s posterior geometry if you know what we mean. In February 2025, President Trump...
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How I Designed and 3D-Printed Sturdy Paddleboard Cup Holders
It all started with a text from my sister: “Hey, I have this idea for my paddleboard.” I could not help but be intrigued. She had been paddleboarding for a while now, exploring lakes and rivers, and...
View ArticleJust Add MaaS: Building Your Perfect D2M Ecosystem with Hawk Ridge Systems
You probably already know that Hawk Ridge Systems has an impressive portfolio of manufacturing hardware, software, and services to help you more easily build your prototypes, parts, and products. What...
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How to Configure and Manage the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox
The SOLIDWORKS Toolbox can be a powerful tool for working with assemblies. As discussed in previous blog posts, the Toolbox can be a valuable asset for automating the usage of standardized components...
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Validate Your 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Parts with Markforged Simulation
Even though FEA tools are a huge part of the product development cycle, they are very rarely used in conjunction with 3D printed parts. Variables such as layer heights, sparse infill geometries, and...
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SCANTECH: Next Generation Handheld Laser Scanning
What Sets SCANTECH Apart?SCANTECH is a global provider of 3D scanning systems, tackling the unique challenges companies face when digitizing products for inspection or reverse engineering. By...
View Article5 Ways Landscape Forms Speeds Up Manufacturing with Hawk Ridge Systems
Landscape Forms designs benches, lighting, tables, and site elements. They weld steel. They finish by hand. But the tools they used — CADKEY, mostly — created friction. Scaling drawings caused...
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