Qdot Technology has designs on electric aircraft opportunity with Onshape support
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The start-up had to find a way to equip its people with product design technology and the subscription model for this solution made it easy for the company to only pay for the number of seats it needed. Importantly, the fact PTC utilises the power of the cloud to run the software meant that all engineers had access to the latest designs and could make live alterations – perfect for internal collaboration and, as commercialisation moves closer, for working with other members of the supply chain. Qdot’s Dr Holt Wong commented: “The aviation industry is projected to account for over 22% of all transport CO2 emissions by 2050, so the race is now on to balance sector growth and climate targets. It’s a team effort, but we don’t all have to be sitting in the same room – a godsend during the Covid-19 lockdown and everyone working from home.” Onshape is already performing several important tasks at Qdot Technology, with product design files regularly shared with manufacturing partners who use them to create parts and components for prototypes. They are now being used internally by engineers to create heat exchangers for electric aircraft that are prototyped using an additive manufacturing process called binder jet printing, an area where accurate detailed files will be vital to securing the right results.
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