Heuresis has chosen Onshape as its primary CAD and data management platform. Onshape is an all-in-one cloud design platform that combines CAD, release management, workflow and real-time collaboration tools to speed up product development.
Heuresis makes portable x-ray imaging devices that allow law enforcement to more easily find illegal drugs, weapons and contraband in hidden compartments inside buildings, furniture, appliances, vehicles, luggage and other objects. The equipment allows police to detect and search hidden compartments without having to destroy property.
“Onshape gives me the ability to instantly check on the status of a design,” says Howard Kellogg, lead mechanical engineer at Heuresis. “It’s helpful for me to stay up to date on a project in real time and provide feedback to the team. We don’t even need to have informal design reviews. We can just see each other’s progress anytime.”
With Onshape’s real-time data management, whenever an engineer makes a change or edit to their 3D CAD model, everyone on the design team instantly sees it. A comprehensive Edit History also records who made what changes and when, allowing the team to return to any prior state of the design at any time.
“Heuresis x-ray technology is giving law enforcement new capabilities to combat illegal drug trafficking,” says Onshape CEO Jon Hirschtick. “We’re proud of Onshape’s role in helping Heuresis make our communities safer.”
Kellogg adds that he especially appreciates Onshape’s reliability and resistance to CAD crashes.
“Onshape is just so much more stable,” he says. “We no longer have to worry about references getting lost or individual files getting corrupted. When we were using SOLIDWORKS, it would sometimes crash and we’d have to deal with recreating lost work.”
“Whenever I’d lose work because of a crash, I’d tell myself the silver lining was that I could do it faster and better the second time around,” Kellogg adds. “But that’s still time you’re not spending moving forward. Onshape has put crashes behind us and lets us focus more on our product development.”
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