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Studio Zwaard and Lino GmbH jointly develop simplification tool Lino® Simplify for Solidworks®
Lino GmbH, specialist for 3D configuration solutions for end-to-end automation of business processes (CPQ, CAD Automation, System Integration) in the manufacturing industry, and the Dutch Solidworks expert Studio Zwaard developed the Lino® Simplify software as part of a development partnership - a Solidworks add-on tool that automates the process of model simplification.Stated objective of the partnership is the production-ready development of an excellent and complete simplification tool for Solidworks assemblies, based on software and technologies that have already been developed independently by both partners in the past. "Thanks to the very good collaboration, the result of Lino® Simplify was better than anything each partner could have achieved on their own," states Jan Jurjen Zwaard, CEO of Studio Zwaard.
"Studio Zwaard was asked to participate because of its experience in model simplification, the Solidworks API and Solidworks expertise in general," explains Rüdiger Dehn, Managing Director of Lino GmbH, adding, "Customers such as Herbold Meckesheim, Matec and Lan Handling Technologies are already using Lino Simplify productively. In 2023, the Lino team will apply to Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation for Solidworks Solution Partner Product certification."
Studio Zwaard was founded in 2004 by Solidworks expert Jan Jurjen Zwaard. The company specializes in Solidworks implementation, API programming and product configuration. Lino has been a provider and developer of software solutions and consulting services for CAD and Sales Automation, Systems Integration and 3D Visualization since 2007.
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Lino is a technology leader for software solutions and consulting services for design and sales automation, system configuration and 3D visualization. Enterprises in many manufacturing industries realize efficient, end-to-end sales and product development processes with enormous savings potential with the Lino Team along with Tacton Configurator and Software Made by Lino® products.
The Tacton technology sets entirely new standards in product configuration and revolutionizes the drafting, configuration and selling of complex industrial products. Software Made by Lino® products make it possible to integrate applications for CAD, PDM, PLM, ERP, CRM, Web, eCommerce, and mobile devices can be with Tacton software simply and easily.
Lino is a Tacton Business Partner, Solidworks Solution Partner, and Microsoft Partner Gold Application Development. This configuration specialist and software developer operates six offices in Germany and Austria: Bremen, Mainz, Stuttgart, Bad Mergentheim, Dresden and Raabs/Thaya.
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