Keyboard Shortcuts For Engineers

How often have you been working on a report or an engineering drawing and needed to add engineering characters that are not on the keyboard? Not sure what I mean? How about: If you found this helpful or useful and would like to receive more hints and tips in your Read more…

Solid Habits

Getting the most from SolidWorks is easy if you have a set of Solid Habits. I am often surprised how many SolidWorks users do not have their templates set up to leverage design information from every model. Spending a few hours creating parts, assembly, and drawing templates will be repaid Read more…

Cost Reduction

Companies all over the UK are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every year because their products are not being made cost-effectively. A recent cost reduction project conducted by White Horse CAD gave one of our clients a projected 3900% Return on Investment (ROI) in the first 12 months alone. Read more…

White Horse CAD client recommendation

We love getting feedback from our clients and always try our best to exceed their expectations… This is what one of our clients said about White Horse CAD Recently…. Want to be the first to read our news?… sign up here… Have a project you would like to discuss?… Contact us here…

How we can help Engineers

Suppose you own or manage a small to medium-sized engineering company with CNC capacity. In that case, you will be all too familiar with receiving 2D Drawings of complex parts without having access to the 3D data that would make programming your CNC machines simpler.   These are just some Read more…

Flatten your products

White Horse CAD can quite literally flatten your products… in a good way, of course. Unless you have spent a few years in a sheet metal workshop, you will have more than a few problems when it comes to creating flat pattern developments for complex or even very simple geometry. Read more…

Product Design Worksheet

Have you just thought of a brilliant new product and want to get things moving quickly? Your head is probably buzzing with questions. Where do I start? Who do I talk to? How long will it take? The first thing to do is to STOP! Take a step back and Read more…

3 Stage Design Process

We are helping you develop new products using our streamlined three Stage Design Process that will help you be the first to market. Please contact us to arrange a meeting or conference call to find out more. We understand your need to get things moving, and meetings will be arranged Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 2: Avoiding Chatter on a Lathe

Please see the warning and disclaimer at the bottom of the page!! Just about every engineer who has ever used a centre lathe has at some point had the misfortune of uncontrollable chatter. There are many causes, and a good number of solutions, I will do my best to explain Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 1: Special Characters Ø, ©, ±, °… [PC]

Imagine you’re writing a report or a letter to a friend, and you are telling them it’s really cold outside and write… “The 25mm diameter thermostat reads 3 degrees centigrade and it has an accuracy of plus or minus 1 degree centigrade” while it’s grammatically correct, it can be written Read more…