My New Gig

Where this is my personal blog, I figured I’d do a shameless plug for the new company I’m working for. It’s still SolidWorks related as that’s what we, and by ‘we’ I mean me, use here.

Ultimate Survival Technologies is a company that produces safety/survival equipment for first responders, the military and outdoorsmen. We have everything from tinder to portable chemical decontamination facilities. The coolest thing, though, is that I’ll be recreating all of our products in SolidWorks. A lot of it is going to require old school reverse engineering (calipers and tape measure) as there just isn’t any documentation. Just the kind of challenge I like!

Also aligned with UST is Status Racing. Status Racing designs and manufactures racing seats for the “Tuner” or the professional. Memory foam, carbon fiber and kevlar are just some of the materials that go into these seats. These, too, need to be modeled up. This is an even bigger challenge for me as my experience with surfacing is all but nil.

That’s all. Just a shameless plug for the new company. I’m sure this will get burned on Pulse.

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February 24, 2009 · Posted in Personal

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JeffMirisola

I would love to Mark, but the money, presently, isn’t in the budget for either a scanner or premium. Thankfully, I’ve become quite adept with calipers, rulers and tape measures over the years.
Thanks for reading, too!

Jeff
Mark

Jeff,
If you are going to be doing a lot of RE, you might consider getting a scanner (Next Engine or other) and using the ScanTo3D add-in in Premium. I (and customers) find it invaluable for just having the mesh as a start point to model against as a reference. Depending on the part you are REing, you can even extract faces automatically.

Regards

Mark Biasotti
Dassault Systemes - SolidWorks

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