Best Practices

These are the key to the key to the effective use of SolidWorks. Establishing and employing a consistent set of standards for modeling and documentation insures long term success.

Imagine everyone in your company working with the same set of rules, the same document and drawing templates, the same modeling guides.  The gains from having such a set of standards are almost unimaginable.  Efficient sharing of data, productive re-use of completed designs, one person being able to change another person's models, the advantages are endless.

Even greater gains can be made by optimizing your standards.  Having standards leads to process improvement, having the right standards provides true design process optimization.  Your standards should be customized to the type of products you design, and the manufacturing processes you employ.  Someone who machines all their parts will have a different set of design practices than someone who develops injection molded parts.

We have worked with companies form the Fortune 100 to one man shops to develop the optimal set of standards and practices related to their way of doing business.  We can work with you to develop a custom set of standards individually tailored to your needs.  We can follow this up with training materials and courses to bring your personnel up to speed in the fastest manner possible.