Articles by: Karen Majerly
Dalhousie engineering students use SOLIDWORKS to redesign parathlete’s throwing chair
When an instructor at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University mentioned to the Javelin team that he was looking for real life design projects for his first-year engineering students, they had the perfect suggestion. Pam LeJean, one of Javelin Technologies’ sponsored athletes, is among the best track…
Javelin celebrates 20th anniversary with software donations to 3D designers: from students to start-ups
The 3D design and 3D printing specialists at Canada’s Javelin Technologies are celebrating 20 years in business with gifts of SOLIDWORKS® computer-aided design (CAD) software and training services to the Canadian start-up community and to high school educators and students. Javelin is a reseller for SOLIDWORKS software and the full range of Stratasys 3D…
Canadian SOLIDWORKS Support as important as software for Javelin customer CT Logics
Downtime is detrimental to any operation, and that’s especially true when a small team is responsible for a big job. At CT Logics Inc., an oilfield equipment manufacturer based in Edmonton, Alberta, a handful of engineers designs custom coiled tubing equipment for both land and…
DriveWorks-based SmartQuote system helps Thordon Bearings manage international dealer network
On the Thordon Bearings website, you’ll find a cool widget that keeps track of the volume of oil discharges the company’s products have prevented to date. That number today? More than 62 million litres. Their business is bearings – designing and manufacturing large-scale bearing systems…
SOLIDWORKS tools help Canadian Aeryon Labs designers optimize and customize world-leading drones
Ask Glen Johannesson to tell you the coolest part of his job and he laughs and says, “It’s all cool. I make flying robots.” Glen is Mechanical Architect for Aeryon Labs and a mechanical engineer. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Aeryon design Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)…
Javelin Technologies is now sponsoring a second world class athlete who is travelling the road to the Rio Olympics. She’s a down-to-earth, straight talking, upbeat Nova Scotian with a few shiny medals in her pocket and plenty of room for an Olympic gold. Pam Lejean…
Javelin opens first-of-its-kind 3D design and 3D printing centre in downtown Vancouver
It was a scene from one of those home renovation TV shows, when the contractors talk into the camera with feigned confidence, aware of the daunting deadline, hoping they’ll be done on time. It’s the wee hours of the morning on the day of the…
Monumental Canadian iceberg sculpture designed in SOLIDWORKS
It’s an awe-inspiring and irregular shape, towering sharply over the tundra landscape, reaching up into the sunlight. It’s an iceberg, but its home is not the Arctic; it lives at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario. Made of stainless steel, and perhaps the…
Spartan CAD “attacks” 3D with the power of SOLIDWORKS and a partnership with Javelin
In the spring of 2012, engineer and entrepreneur David Janelle saw the future. Working on his own, with a couple of contracted engineers, David invested in three licenses of SOLIDWORKS. It was an ambitious move – he didn’t even have enough 3D design work to…