Lyttelton Engineering, New Zealand

Lyttelton Engineering specialises in boiler manufacture, heavy steel fabrication and machining, ship repairs and industrial site work. Established in 1953, the company completes projects from major local and national infrastructure developments to private installations and repairs.

Challenge:

• Inaccurate drawings, models and prototypes created in previous 2D CAD system
• Manual design changes extremely time consuming
• Difficulty accurately designing welded parts
• Communicating correct design intent and product detail to customers and suppliers in 2D

SolidWorks Benefits:

• SolidWorks 3D environment allows for virtual fitment resulting in errors of less than one per cent (1%) during site installation for some projects
• Parametric environment automates design changes across models, views and drawings
• SolidWorks’ Weldment technology quickly and easily completes complicated joining and welding work
• 3D views and models instil confidence in customers that the end result will turn out as planned

“Some of our more recent projects have had extremely tight deadlines and the fact is that we wouldn’t have met those deadlines without a 3D tool such as SolidWorks to virtually fit and test our designs.”

Michael Smith
Mechanical Engineer
Lyttelton Engineering
www.lytteng.co.nz