The CAD desks available for hire through Metropolitan Works’ Pay and Go scheme have high specification PC laptops and a choice of commercially licensed software. Peripheral tools such as haptic arms and flatbed scanners can also be arranged on request.

Rhino3D
Rhino is an efficient, cost effective, easy to learn 3D modeller used by designers, architects, engineers and manufacturers throughout the world. It features a range of professional tools that will allow you to accurately model any shape you can imagine. It can create, edit and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids and is used to design, prototype, engineer, analyse and manufacture anything from aircraft to jewellery.

Rhino also has many industry specific ‘plug ins’ which allow you to customise it for your own requirements, such as rendering, animation, CAM (computer aided manufacture), jewellery, furniture and others.

SolidWorks
SolidWorks is a performance 2D and 3D CAD solution offering a suite of mechanical 3D tools for product and industrial design. SolidWorks Office Professional includes SolidWorks 3D CAD software, a full range of design communication and CAD productivity tools, and PDMWorks, a product data management (PDM) solution that is uniquely adapted to managing SolidWorks product data for individual or multi-user projects.