Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’

Making the World a Better Place with Design and Engineering

Written by Nick Luyster on . Posted in Design and Engineering, SolidWorks

Recently, I watched a documentary titled “Objectified” which featured some of the most prominent designers and engineers of our time.  If you’re in this field, or just interested in it, I highly recommend watching the entire documentary.  Every featured designer/engineer had something important to say but the feature that I found particularly inspiring came from Jonathan Ives (Vice President of Design for Apple Computers).
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Design and engineering is communication.  It’s art.  Every boss, fillet, flat surface, and change thereof is propagated to the user experience.  Whether the user knows it or not, your design affects their feeling of the product.  In turn, you affect peoples emotions on a mass level.

Take pride in your work. You make a difference.  People listen to your designs.

Impressive High Rise Designed with SolidWorks

Written by Stephanie Siewert on . Posted in Customer Successes, SolidWorks, Symmetry Solutions

 

Permasteelisa, a long-time customer of Symmetry Solutions, and world leader in curtain wall design, production, and installation,  played a large part in engineering the design of Beekman Tower, New York’s tallest residential high-rise.  The 76-story lower-Manhattan tower, designed by Frank Gehry, is 867 feet high. It includes highly-shaped curved steel surfaces that create a unique ripple effect. Permasteelisa’s virtual construction and precise 3D-models created using SolidWorks played an integral part in the successful completion of this impressive building. For more details on how this project came together, you can view a video here.

Beekman Tower, New York