Adding value to your product without adding cost

This wooden Point of Sale stand was designed for a client who sells oils at well-being events. This example demonstrates how we can help not only people who have an idea for a product, but also the people who are going to make the product. Adding value to your product Read more…

Our Ideal Clients

While at a networking event, someone asked me who White Horse CAD’s “Ideal Clients” were? My reply … “We have two main client types… Firstly, companies or individuals who want to get a new product to market. Secondly, companies who require CAD or project management support, such as engineering companies Read more…

A Quick Guide to 3D Printing

There is a very steep learning curve to owning a 3D printer, so we have created “A Quick Guide to 3D Printing”. Which gives you an introduction to FDM/FFD Printing No matter what 3D printing process you are using you need to start with a file that can be “SLICED” Read more…

Save Money on Your Prototypes

An engineering drawing or photo-realistic render can only tell you so much about your new product. If you want to get down to the nitty-gritty of form fit and function then you need to have your new product in your hands.  Conventional prototype manufacturing can be time-consuming and expensive. But Read more…

Innovation Surgery

Who wants some FREE advice? Yes, you read that correctly… FREE advice. Now that’s not something you see every day, is it? White Horse CAD is in the process of setting up a regular Design and Innovation Surgery. Do you have an idea for a new product, would like to Read more…

Design Cycle

The White Horse CAD (WHC) Design Cycle helps our clients get their ideas to market quicker. The WHC design cycle is flexible enough to work with projects of any size or scale.  We listen to our customers and turn their requirements into designs, bringing their concepts and ideas to life Read more…

Protect Your Ideas!

One question we often get asked when we design a new product for a client is, “Can this be patented?”. White Horse CAD’s response to this is “there may be some features on the design that could be protected, but we suggest you talk to a patent attorney to get Read more…

An animation is worth a million words

You have heard the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words”…  White Horse CAD thinks an animation speaks orders of magnitude more than a picture. We were trying to explain the advantages of using a worm gear drive to a client and thought animation would be useful. A picture Read more…

How many features?

Here is a simple headed shaft with a cross hole. What is the minimum number of features required to create this part using SolidWorks? White Horse CAD Limited is working on creating some tutorials for SolidWorks CAD modeling best practices. The first few lessons will be freely available. If the Read more…

Is Computer Aided Design (CAD) still the new kid on the block?

Or to put it another way… Are hand-drawn designs still relevant in the modern age? CAD Computer Aided Design (CAD) has been around since the early 1960’s.But those early versions are a long way from what we now accept as the norm. Modern 3D Parametric CAD was first seen in Read more…