Autodesk Inventor 2018 – What’s New ?
Autodesk Inventor 2018 is released The Wait Is Over ! Autodesk Inventor 2018 is now available to download and having done so and undertaken a couple of software installations, here's Nova’s first look at what's new. Inventor 2018 is built for the continually evolving...
Digital Design Reviews
Due to the size and duration of the projects that we undertake in our engineering design office, design reviews are an increasingly important part of our mechanical engineering design process. Conducted either digitally or face to face, they allow us to provide our...
Latest Mechanical Automation Project Is Unwrapped . . . . .
One of our latest mechanical design projects hits the shop floor into manufacture. Nova produced mechanical designs and detailed manufacture drawings for the mechanical automation of the animated cheeseburger prop, soon to be bound for a theme park in Dubai. All...
Nova add Advance Steel to CAD software capabilities
Over the last 27 years of trading, Nova have successfully undertaken the site survey, layout, structural design and structural detailing for many structural steelwork design projects. Previous engineering design projects have included staircases, platform design and...
Nova Appoint Engineering Manager
Nova are pleased to announce that following an internal promotion, our new Engineering Manager is Steve Holt. Working alongside Nick Parry (Engineering Director), Steve is now responsible for the day to day running of our internal design office allocating engineering...
Ansys 17.0 FEA Software Downloaded and Installed
FEA - Ansys DesignSpace V17.0 Nova have recently upgraded our ANSYS Finite Element Analysis software package to ANSYS V17.0, the latest release of the engineering simulation technology suite, designed to optimise product development processes. This ensures our FEA and...
Nova retain ISO 9001:2008 Certification
Nova have once again proved that our internal ISO 9001:2008 Mission Statement of "Right First Time" is worthy of the way in which we conduct our design services. We have successfully passed the first external ISO 9001:2008 audit of 2016 with flying colours - NO...
Nova unearth CAD treasure
One of our design engineers was having a clear out of his garage at the weekend and came across a box of older draughting equipment - mechanical propelling pencils, scale rules etc In an old, battered A4 envelope were these . . . . . . Not only was Pafec Dogs one of...
Coolest Thing In Company Reception
One of our Directors was visiting a new client this morning and came across this little gem in their reception area. The story goes that it's the actual car driven by Rubens Barrichello in the 1997 Monaco F1 Grand Prix. Other than missing the engine / gearbox and...
Kingswinford – Did You Know – Trivia 🙂
We came across these "Did You Know" trivia facts in the local paper and thought we'd share : Kingswinford is mentioned in the Doomsday book In Roman times and for centuries afterwards Kingswinford was a dense primeval forest. Records show that in 1920 coal was being...