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In today’s fast-paced market, customers demand faster, cheaper, and higher-quality products. To meet these expectations, many businesses are turning to design automation. DriveWorks Solo offers a powerful solution to automate repetitive tasks in SOLIDWORKS - Here's how to get started...

ABGi-UK Limited is our new legal entity name. Learn about our rebranding from Visiativ Consulting, our Groupe SNEF acquisition, and our continued commitment to quality.

Subcontracting can be a tricky situation in an R&D tax claim, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t claim. HMRC launched the new merged R&D tax relief scheme last year and revised the rules on subcontracting expenditure – leaving many companies confused about which subcontracted costs they can (or cannot) include in their R&D claims. In this post, we look at the new R&D tax rules and how they might affect your eligible contracted-out R&D expenditure. Read on to find out more.

If you're already using the SOLIDNETWORK License manager and purchase additional SNL seats of SOLIDWORKS products, you will need to modify your SOLIDNETWORK License manager server tool on your server to add the additional licenses. Here's how it's done...

DriveWorksXpress is a free design automation tool included with every license of SOLIDWORKS, designed to automate repetitive design tasks and creating variations of a model quickly and efficiently. It saves time by automating the creation of multiple design versions, allowing engineers to focus on more complex tasks. The tool is user-friendly, requiring no programming skills, and uses a rules-based approach with standard Excel functions.

One challenge many businesses face is clarifying what exactly counts as a “scientific or technological uncertainty. ”Clarifying ‘uncertainty’ is at the heart of making a successful R&D claim. Understanding HMRC’s definition of uncertainty helps ensure your claim is both accurate and defendable. Read on for the key details.