Gaining additional exposure for Nova and pushing the UK Centre of Excellence for Engineering, Nova have recently joined the ‘Made In The Midlands’ business network. With the Midlands being the birthplace of the industrial revolution and leading pioneers in advanced manufacturing, the central belt of the UK is home to around 32,000 engineering and manufacturing…

Yet more great news for UK Manufacturing – it’s not all doom and gloom in the West Midlands ! http://www.expressandstar.com/editors-picks/2013/08/30/new-wolverhampton-plant-on-track-to-drive-jlr-forward/

We have recently upgraded our ANSYS software package to ANSYS 14.5, the newest release of the engineering simulation technology suite, designed to optimise product development processes. This ensures our FEA and engineering design team keep the latest tools at their disposal, in order to provide a reliable, high quality service. Taken from ansys.com: “ANSYS 14.5…

If you are currently using SolidWorks software as your designated design package, and are looking to upgrade to SolidWorks 2013, please be aware that the newest version of the software will not install on Windows XP. It is strongly recommended you upgrade to Windows 7 before the release of SolidWorks 2013, to take advantage of…

To assist our visualisation team, we have recently built an in-house render farm. This allows high quality, high-resolution illustrations, animations and walkthroughs to be rendered in much shorter amounts of time. Ultimately, this means we are able to significantly reduce project turnaround time for our visualisation clients.

We have added CATIA V5 to the design packages we are currently using in house! We also use Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Solid Egde, NX and Creo Elements Pro, also known as Pro/ENGINEER. Check out our CAD Design Services page.

Service Pack 1.1 has now been released for AutoCAD 2013 software. This latest Service Pack follows on from the withdrawal of AutoCAD 2013 Service Pack 1. Please visit the Autodesk website for further details and to download the Pack, making sure to read the ‘Readme’ before installing. AutoCAD 2013 forms a crucial part of the varying…

We are now using the very latest Solid Edge release from Siemens – ST5. Including over 1300 enhancements, this new software installation allows us to keep catering to our varying client requirements, with our high level of CAD expertise. Solid Edge ST5 features include flexible synchronous modelling, built-in thermal simulation, world class draughting and a…

If Inventor 2013 is installed first and you then try to install Inventor 2012 on the same computer, the Inventor 2012 installation will fail with an error message. Please click here to view the problem in full and see the solution.

It has been bought to our attention that some people are experiencing Autodesk Sync issues when installing a 2013 release product after installing a 2013 beta product. The Autodesk Sync component does not upgrade properly under the following conditions: • You installed AutoCAD Beta 2013 (or Showcase Beta 2013) and subsequently install Inventor 2013 •…

We are pleased to announce we have downloaded the latest product release from Autodesk – Autodesk Product Design Suite Premium 2013, which includes AutoCAD and Inventor. We are looking forward to trying out all of the exciting new features! More information on what the software can do is available on the Autodesk website.