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…

Smart Watch Holder

The 3D printed ABS Apple Watch holder is available in a selection of colours including, Red, Green, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Black and Light Brown. This can be personalised with up to 15 characters (including spaces) on both sides of the holder as shown. A single personalised Apple Watch holder costs Read more…

Take the pressure off your design team

Are you losing clients because your design projects are running behind schedule? Did you know in companies large and small, over 70% of product design projects are delayed due to a lack of resources? Do you need to take the pressure off your design team? As the pressure on your design Read more…

Artisans and Makers Fixed Price Guarantee

White Horse CAD work with a lot of artisans and makers. Turning their sketches and drawings into CAD files for processes such as laser cutting or water jet cutting. This is one of the core services we offer artisans and makers. This is also where we can use our expertise Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 11: Get Your Project Moving

What is stopping you getting your products to market? Companies large and small have problems getting new product designs into production. There are many things that can increase development time, but the most common are: Staff shortages Production support taking engineers away from projects Short or long term staff illness Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 10: Turning Brass

See warning and disclaimer at the bottom of the page!! Most engineers know that when you turn brass the needle like chipping’s that come off will cover you and your workshop in a split second if you do not have a fully enclosed machine, or a close fitting chick guard.. There are Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 9: Don’t tell the World

Whether you have an idea for a new product and are looking for people to help you with the design or manufacture it is important to make sure you protect your intellectual property. If you chat to ANYONE about your product without putting a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in place, Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 7: Protecting your Ideas

In some cases the most appropriate way to protect a design is to apply for Registered Design Rights. This is much more cost effective than a patent and only takes a few weeks. However while registered design rights offers protection for the overall shape or form of a product, it Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 6: Using a Sketch Picture in SolidWorks

Nature is a great source of inspiration for product design. As is using existing product images to re-create geometry. The problem is that although there are billions of photos in the world, they don’t often come with a scale bar for reference. However If you Have SolidWorks you are able Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 5: Conditional Formatting in Excel

Conditional formatting allows you to format an excel cell, or cells, in a particular way depending on the data contained in the cell. For example, a quick glance of the simple spreadsheet below does not make it obvious which clients have paid or which orders have been shipped. Formatting each Read more…