Design & Engineering

Optimise, automate and improve the quality of your designs

Would you like to improve the quality of your designs and work faster with fewer errors?

The design and engineering solutions and services we provide aim to support you to design more quickly, reduce designing and engineering costs and enable faster time to market of your products. Read more about the benefits of automating your design process, managing your product data more efficiently, simulation, generative design and drafting, and documenting your designs.

What can you achieve?

Efficient management

...of your engineering files and documents.

Re-use data

...efficiently.

Secure regular backups

...of your company’s engineering data.

Reduce the time spend

...on repetitive tasks.

Recreate reality

...in a virtual environment.

Automation of designs, tasks and processes

...to allow easy product configuration, intelligent customisation and quick processing.

Related cases

Product development time slashed by almost 70% using Altair® SimSolid®: Modulift’s design time drops from 600 to 200 hours

The Modulift engineering and design team are no strangers to projects with high-level QA requirements and a highly specialised focus on creating a bespoke solution. It has often been the case that the equipment they design and manufacture solves problems not usually encountered in lifting projects.

Modulift, founded in 2002, is renowned globally for manufacturing modular spreader beams, lifting beams and spreader frames.

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“Never stop improving”— How manufacturing at EASYFIX® keeps on getting smarter

Making Digital Transformation Easy, Logical and Timely

“We continuously develop and improve our products to make the operations of our farming customers more effective, and that depends on ensuring the comfort and the quality living conditions of their animals. The more accurately and cost-effectively we can achieve those goals, the better it is for everybody.
The process of digital transformation is ongoing for us, helping to drive and support our continuous business growth; a process that Symetri has been making easy, logical, and timely for us since 2010. They’ve embraced our workflows, our passion, and our commitment to modern manufacturing. In fact, they have made them all possible. That’s why we value the relationship we have with them”.

 

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Delivering confidence and quality faster: Sotech’s adoption of Altair® SimSolid® aligns product output with client expectations closer than ever before

Meet Sotech

Established in 1982, Sotech is a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered metal rainscreen cladding and architectural fabrications, marketed as the Optima range.

Sotech’s team works closely with architects, installers and contractors to specify rainscreen cladding solutions appropriate for each individual project. Sotech provides expert advice on the system, materials and finishes, fire safety, sustainability, design and production.

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Symetri’s Autodesk Fusion 360 training consolidates skills for manufacturing R&D support at the University of Aberdeen’s engineering workshop

Meet the Engineering Workshop at the University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen’s School of Engineering is not just about teaching. Like many of the university’s other departments, it also undertakes research, looking at new technologies, developments and techniques to respond to trends within the world of engineering.

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Brimmond accelerates FEA with Inventor Nastran; optimising design and engineering precision and meeting international compliance standards

Meet Brimmond

Brimmond is an engineering company that delivers innovative, integrated, and often bespoke solutions for any hydraulic, mechanical and electrical need. Brimmond’s specialist engineers evaluate each client’s requirements across the purchase, hire, repair, refurbishment or maintenance of engineered equipment. The most common sectors include energy, marine, defence, oil and gas, renewable and decommissioning.

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Altair® SimSolid® enables Mecon to slash its structural analysis time by 90%.

Meet Mecon

Founded in 1997, Mecon is an engineering design and fabrication company providing turnkey solutions for organisations in, among other sectors, the steel and mining industries in northern Sweden. The company is based across two locations, Luleå and Gällivare, also in northern Sweden.

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Craven Fawcett | How a 180-year-old company, manufacturing products you are likely to see every single day.

Craven Fawcett clay working machinery is exported throughout the world, successfully competing for international market share on the basis of design, build quality, and price.

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HERMANNS OPTIMISES PRODUCT INFORMATION WITH SOVELIA CORE

At Hermann's, Sovelia Core is the core of all data management around the company's products and projects, which enables high-quality deliveries and helps the company meet deadlines even in projects with many continuous changes throughout the project's life cycle.

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Symetri introduces Pentre Offshore Engineering to Altair SimSolid; achieving super-fast structural analysis in design

Pentre Offshore Engineering is part of the Pentre Group, formed in 1988 and now regarded as the leading manufacturer in Europe for reels, drums, spools, and ancillaries to the global wire and cable industry; any organisation involved in linear-wound products.

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Autodesk Forma is here!

Following on from the announcement at last years’ Autodesk University, the first release of Forma – the new industry cloud solution for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry has officially been released today.

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Events

Altair Technology Conference

Thursday, 23 April 2026

Join us at the British Motor Museum for the Altair Technology Conference by Siemens: Converging to Accelerate Simulation. (AKA Simcenter Technology Conference 2026)

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Blog

5 Tips to Work Smarter in Autodesk Vault

Sovelia Vault is an automation platform built for Autodesk Vault, offering greater flexibility, control, and customisation. Here are 5 tips to help you work smarter in Autodesk Vault when you add Sovelia Vault to your toolkit.

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