Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI)
Automation Solution for a Wind Engineering Consulting Service Firm
Javelin Technologies not only provides customers with innovative software but also helps to speed up their design processes with automation products and solution partners. For Javelin customer RWDI, they were introduced to R&D partner Sungrace Software, to help automate their use of SolidWorks 3D design software for a superstructure analysis project.
Company: Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI)
Location: Guelph, Ontario
URL: www.rwdi.com
Industry: Wind engineering consulting services
Assistance from Javelin: Provided SolidWorks 3D design software and source a solution partner, Sungrace Software, to automate their design process
The Challenge
Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc.(RWDI). Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, RWDI has become the leading world provider of wind-related engineering services. The company offers a complete range of wind engineering, environmental air quality, and noise management services to leading architectural, mechanical engineering, and structural engineering firms, as well as to private and public facility owners. RWDI projects include the world’s tallest buildings – Taipei 101 in Taiwan, and Burj Dubai in the Middle East – and the Freedom Tower at New York’s World Trade Center site. RWDI needed to automate the manual process of installing pressure sensors on wind-tunnel test models.
The Solution
Because SolidWorks CAD software has a flexible architecture and open SolidWorks API, RWDI engaged the services of Sungrace Software to develop a customized application, known as eTAPS, for automating the modeling and placement of wind-pressure sensor taps in SolidWorks. By customizing SolidWorks, the firm increased its modeling efficiency by 15 percent, shortened client delivery times, decreased project costs, and extended its capacity to perform wind-tunnel tests.
Results
- Increased modeling efficiency by 15%
- Shortened client delivery times
- Decreased costs per project
- Extended capacity to perform wind-tunnel tests
About Sungrace
Sungrace is an R&D partner to leading engineering software vendors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) companies and their software and design-engineering suppliers. Sungrace provides Managed Global Delivery™ of technology-enabled services including engineering software development, design automation, 3D design, CFD and FEA. For more information, please visit: www.SungraceInc.com.
SolidWorks provides a great deal of functionality in its API, which permits us to perform geometric analysis and construct complicated features.
Mark Yerry, Senior Developer, RWDI
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