Case Study: Aerosport Modeling & Design, Inc achieves 50% faster time-to-market and 30% lower upholstery costs with SolidWorks

Automating Seat Upholstery Design Speeds Time-to-market With Solidworks and Exactflat Solutions

Aerosport Modeling & Design, Inc., a prototype and manufacturing services company, needed to streamline a labor‑intensive, manual seat-upholstery pattern process to reduce costs and speed time‑to‑market. The company evaluated and adopted SOLIDWORKS Professional (with SOLIDWORKS Composer for documentation) and Tri‑D Technologies’ ExactFlat Design Studio 3D‑to‑2D flattening software to digitize upholstery design.

Using SOLIDWORKS to model scanned seat foam and ExactFlat to generate flattened patterns, Aerosport automated pattern creation, cutting pattern time from about a week to an hour, reducing time‑to‑market by 50% and upholstery production costs by 30%. The SOLIDWORKS + ExactFlat solution also improved pattern accuracy and material nesting, eliminated extra foam additions, and increased throughput and finish quality.

Aerosport Modeling & Design, Inc

Geoff Combs

Owner