{"id":237997,"date":"2022-03-09T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/?p=237997"},"modified":"2022-04-26T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:23:04","slug":"freedom-one-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/2022\/03\/freedom-one-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2019 Freedom One Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> joined the SOLIDWORKS Startups Program<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Freedom One Life are disrupting the powered wheelchair market with the Series 5. The journey designing the Series 5 required the use of SOLIDWORKS to create concepts, validate designs and finally design parts and assemblies for manufacture. By the end of 2019 they had a working prototype. Now with medical device testing underway, Freedom One Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> are on track to manufacture and supply the Freedom One Life Series 5.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”10px||10px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|0px||0px|false|false”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/Series-5-Render-FileAugust-16092021.102.png” title_text=”Series 5 Render FileAugust 16092021.102″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|0px||0px|false|false”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/Series-5-Render-FileAugust-16092021.103.png” title_text=”Series 5 Render FileAugust 16092021.103″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/Series-5-Render-FileAugust-16092021.97.png” title_text=”Series 5 Render FileAugust 16092021.97″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/tms-scotland.com\/solidworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/Series-5-Render-FileAugust-16092021.108.png” title_text=”Series 5 Render FileAugust 16092021.108″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Learn how the SOLIDWORKS Startups Program<\/a><\/span><\/span> helped Freedom One Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> from design to development.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were ready to acquire CAD for the business SOLIDWORKS was my CAD software of choice. I was familiar with SOLIDWORKS capabilities from previous roles and contacted TMS CADCentre. I was delighted when they explained that as a start-up, we could benefit from the <\/em>SOLIDWORKS Startups Program<\/em>. <\/em>Having free CAD for the first year is a <\/em>huge benefit to a start-up business and the features in SOLIDWORKS are the best for engineering. <\/em>CAD as good as SOLIDWORKS is a big investment and when you\u2019re working off investors\u2019 money you must maximise every pound spent. <\/em>With SOLIDWORKS you can design, test using FEA (<\/em>Finite Element Analysis)<\/em>, and visualise using the rendering package – it\u2019s a handy set of tools to have. This saved us money and helped us have confidence going into testing because we\u2019d tested everything using SOLIDWORKS Simulation<\/a><\/span> first. We also used SOLIDWORKS Compos<\/span><\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span><\/a> to design the illustrations<\/em> and layout of the product manual. <\/em><\/p>\n