SolidWorks Product Design Contest 2007

Each year SolidWorks host a modeling contest and announces the winners on the last day of SolidWorks World. Some people have asked me who won the contest but, in the sheer excitement, I failed to write them down. Fortunately Nancy Buchino from SolidWorks, who ran the Chase Corporate Challenge in 29 minutes 48 seconds, was kind enough to post a Press Release revealing all the winners. Thanks.

There were something like 60 entries and a lot of them are just really, really good, like my favorite, the Burton Elementz Kitcar that was also entered in the Burton Car Design Competition.

Here’s all the winners.

GRAND PRIZE
WIYN Observatory, One Degree Imager, WIYN Observatory Tucson, Ariz.

MODEL CONTEST
1 st place – Naber Plastics B.V., Burton Elementz Kitcar, Rob Wolkers, Engineer
2 nd place – Page Product Design, Inc., Mule Industrial Lift, Matthew Page, President
3 rd place – Feature Factory, Acoustic Ceiling Feature, Jonathan McGregor, Engineer

PHOTOREALISTIC IMAGES CONTEST
1 st place – Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli, Steam Iron and Alloy Wheels, Ambar Bandi, Industrial Designer
2 nd place – Gould Studios, Reproduction of the Dorpat Telescope, Bill Gould, Owner
3 rd place – ThermoSpas, Inc., Swim/Trainer, James Parys, Design Engineer

ANIMATIONS CONTEST
1 st place – Paper Converting Machinery Corporation, Prolog LT Log Saw, Dan Allen, Designer
2 nd place – SchuF Group, Delayed Coking Process Animation, Rory Stanley, Head of Marketing
3 rd place – Wakefield High School, Out-of-the-Box Rubik’s Cube Solution, Ellis P. Kieffer, Student

WIYN Observatory walked away with a Lenovo ThinkPad for their massively cool universe camera. You can see photos and renderings of the entries on the SolidWorks 2007 Design Contest Entry Page.