Symmetry Solutions Blog

Recently, one of our SolidWorks Education customers was featured in a local news story. Steve Higley, engineering teacher at Maranatha Christian Academy (a close neighbor to Symmetry Solutions’ new facility in Brooklyn Park), facilitated a project with about a dozen engineering students. The project involved designing a bridge to replace a bridge in desperate need of repair on the Superior Hiking Trail, where the students from Maranatha take regular hiking trips. Before the manual labor began, the students designed the bridge using SolidWorks. Tom Denecke, a local engineer, volunteered to help the students. The new bridge they designed was 36 feet long and 10 feet high.  Read more…

SolidWorks Corporation has newly certified updated drivers for both Windows XP and Vista for desktop nVidia Quadro FX graphics cards.  These drivers support the full range of desktop boards – from the three year old FX 540/1400/3400 generation to the newest products.  Download the new drivers from www.solidworks.com/sw/videocardtesting.html .  Be sure to follow installation instructions carefully.