Design support when you need it

If you need design support to help get your project over the line, White Horse CAD is here to help. We can fulfill several roles and have a successful record of helping design teams and individuals meet their product development deadlines.   Scenario #1: So much to do, so little Read more…

Fun Fact Friday – Screw it!

This week’s Fun Friday Fact is about something around us. It helps the construction of our everyday essentials through highly complex structures. The mystery product holds things together. It’s also available in various sizes and is a toolbox fundamental. That’s right, and it’s a screw. The first standard for screw Read more…

Reliable and functional – it has to be Finite Element Analysis

This Friday, we’re sharing a fact about size and weight. Do you know the first programmable computer invented in 1945 weighed 27200Kg? It’s a far cry from the lightweight device we’re accustomed to. With approximately 5,000,00 hand-soldered joints, its size was necessary to home all the components and for the Read more…

Stones, steps and inflatables

For today’s Fun Friday Fact, we take a virtual trip to Egypt, home to a man named Imhotep. The belief is he is the first person in the world credited as an engineer. Imhotep was probably the first person to use stone columns to support a building in the design Read more…

Mechanical Testing

Sometimes White Horse CAD partners with businesses to support clients with services outside our area of expertise. We have worked closely with Aurora Medical Ltd on numerous projects. They use their engineering expertise to find solutions to complex engineering problems. Aurora’s Managing Director, Dr Andy Taylor has experience and expertise Read more…

Take 2 on Design Evolution

This happens a lot in product design… You think you have the perfect design for your product and then you think… It’s a good design, but, it does not look new or fresh. Then you start to think about the problem from a different angle. This is Take 2 on Read more…

Twelve Tips of Christmas: Tip 2: Avoiding Chatter on a Lathe

Please see the warning and disclaimer at the bottom of the page!! Just about every engineer who has ever used a centre lathe has at some point had the misfortune of uncontrollable chatter. There are many causes, and a good number of solutions, I will do my best to explain Read more…

Fibonacci Procrastination

Sometimes  I feel the need to indulge in some engineering-based fun.  I am lucky enough to have access to loads of very cool software, gadgets and machines. So when I started working on some new Phi related marketing images for the White Horse CAD Limited’s website I thought to myself. Read more…

How strong are 3D printed parts?

We’re often asked how strong our FDM 3D printed parts can be. The answer… it really depends on the: –  size of the component –  parameters used for printing –  material chosen.     But to give an idea of how strong a 3D print can be we created two Read more…

Will it hold?

It looks like we have another problem to solve! This work bag is sitting on the living room floor and really needs to be hung up somewhere. The problem is this bag weighs a metaphorical ton! It has a laptop, an A4 diary, documents, some sample products and a few Read more…