With 20 years of SolidWorks design experience, I have been able to expertly capture the program’s powerful capabilities to bring any concept into reality. Thoughtful parametric part design, thoroughly complete dynamic assemblies, detailed part and system drawings, and specialized program feature knowledge allow SolidWorks to be the vehicle that drives complicated system designs into real world products.

My chassis and suspension system designs in a lead engineering role have produced industry landmark products built and sold by the thousand each year.

Designing for both high-volume, budget systems and zero limitation, one-off creations have allowed for a unique level of insight and experience. A true “from scratch” approach has been implemented many times for these chassis and suspension systems, providing a set of design disciplines to tackle system designs of any size or complication.

All digital designs are thoughtfully considered and catered to real life production.

Elements of each design are specifically driven by the manufacturing methods chosen. With an emphasis on MIG and TIG welded fabrication, components are designed to be fully broken down to their single elements, with documentation and support provided to the builders for a succinct build process.

Intelligent jigging, locating and interlocking component strategies allow production fabricators to build with confidence and speed, even when faced with complex systems.

Considerable hands on experience with designs made for composite manufacturing, from digital component to finished physical part. Component male plugs and patterns are designed intentionally with draft considerations for one or multipiece mold sections, to be 3D printed or 3-axis milled from a variety of materials. Hundreds of hours with physical experience finishing male patterns, producing female molds from the pattern, and resin infusion or hand lamination of final carbon fiber components.

Countless examples of component design specifically catered to 3-axis, 5-axis, and lathe turning manufacturing. A deep understanding of tooling and jigging limitations, as well as personal programming experience, allows for machine component design that meets a balance of aesthetic, cost and time of manufacturing.

Component tolerancing that considers interface fitment, machining limitation and costing offers the insight to properly constrain designs in the ways that actually matter for production and assembly. Vast 3D printing experience that covers prototyping, end use parts and materials ranging from economy plastics to DLMS metals.

With SolidWorks sheet metal design being my most utilized process to bring designs into production, it has become the fastest workflow for daily design work.

The flexibility, cost, and design freedom offered by folded and curved sheet metal design makes it a go-to method of accomplishing many design goals.

Unfolding and exporting profiles to an appropriate flat CAM system, and creating the fabrication documentation is standard and experienced work. Working with round and rectangular tube profiles is also commonplace, with the needed follow up to export complicated tube structures to be CNC laser cut on a tube laser or documentation provided to cut and bend tube systems with hand equipment.