Case Study: Wendy Stevens rebuilds and modernizes her metal handbag business with Autodesk AutoCAD LT

AutoCAD LT Helps Bring Handbag Business Back from the Ashes

Wendy Stevens, a metal handbag designer with more than 30 years’ experience, lost her entire workshop and handmade templates in a devastating fire and needed to rebuild her business from scratch. To modernize her process and create the precise drawings required by a photo-etching partner, she turned to Autodesk’s AutoCAD LT to learn digital drafting and recreate her templates.

Using Autodesk AutoCAD LT, Stevens digitized her work, creating more than 140 handbag designs and moving from time-consuming hand-cutting and punching to photo-etched parts ready for fabrication. The Autodesk solution increased speed and accuracy, streamlined production, and transformed her workflow—allowing her to order etched components directly from drawings and dramatically reduce manual labor and lead time.

Wendy Stevens