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Workshop
Solidworks Series II
🤯🤯Model Smart, Manufacture Better: DFM-Driven Feature Strategies!
SESSION 2 Topic: Modeling with Purpose Part II - “DFM/DFA considerations for Part files with Robust features"
On this 1-hour presentation, we'll discuss:
- Build tree structure
- Extrude, revolve, fillet, shell, Lofted, swept, boundary
- Split bodies, molded designs
- Contact vs. Tangency vs. Continuous curvature
- File type exports for 3D printing/CNC
Pitch Deck Help?
Are you a California startup developing a device, therapy, or diagnostic?
You may be eligible for 16 hours of complimentary Pitch Deck Consulting.
Agenda
9:30 AM
Check-In
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Modeling with Purpose Part II
- “DFM/DFA considerations for Part files with Robust features"
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Networking
Prizes
- $5,000 Tax Services
- $20k in office/lab space
- Digital Marketing and Branding Services (worth $5,000)
- $10K in office/lab space
- $25k custom UX design package from the largest femtech incubator in the US
- $5,000 Legal Services
- Exploratory biostatistics package: 3 reports
- Membership to Mayo Clinic Innovation Exchange
- Regulatory kit and Regulatory strategy consulting (Medical Device only)
- $5,000 Legal fees
- Two months campaign on startup program
- 3-day ticket to the upcoming 2025 RESI Conference
- Contingent Permanent Placement ($5,000 off); Retained Search services ($5,000 off)
- $5,000 of tax services
- 6 month Growth subscription and services package (worth up to $14K)
Learn from Subject Matter Experts

Jason Hancock
Founder & Head of Engineering, JHancock Consulting
Jason is the founder of a San Diego–based consulting company supporting biotech and life science innovators through requirements-driven mechanical design and system integration. With over 20 years of experience—including the past 12 focused in the biotech sector—he helps teams accelerate product development by creatively leveraging tools like 3D CAD (SolidWorks), rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and fast-turn CNC parts to drive informed design decisions early and often. Jason is passionate about user-centered design and leading collaborative, high-performing teams that bring breakthrough technologies to life.
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