Case Study: Robot Bike Co. achieves rapid, mass‑customized, lighter mountain‑bike production with SOLIDWORKS

Creating the ultimate mountain bike with solidworks and truform sw software solutions

Robot Bike Co. set out to design next‑generation titanium/composite mountain bike frames that are lightweight, durable, and fully configurable online. To meet that challenge it chose SolidWorks as its 3D development platform—implementing SolidWorks Standard and SolidWorks Premium design and analysis tools along with SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner GRM Consulting Ltd.’s TruForm SW topology optimization add‑in and additive manufacturing techniques to drive parametric configuration and topology optimization.

Using SolidWorks to create parametric models and design configurations and TruForm SW for integrated topology optimization, Robot Bike Co. now delivers custom frames in roughly eight weeks (versus months), supports an online configurator with about 250,000 size/style combinations, and leverages titanium 3D‑printed lugs. The SolidWorks‑driven solution cut rocker mass by 27%, reduced stress by 50% while increasing torsional stiffness, enabled a lifetime guarantee, and made optimized additive‑manufactured titanium lugs economically viable.

Robot Bike Co.

Ed Haythornthwaite

Chief Executive Officer