{"id":1944,"date":"2012-05-15T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Design1-Sighted-at-Tacoma-World-at-Local-Motors\/ba-p\/334890"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:14:09","slug":"design1-sighted-at-tacoma-world-at-local-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/design1-sighted-at-tacoma-world-at-local-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Design1 Sighted at Tacoma World at Local Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tVUfyax63zA&gt;\"><\/IFRAME>Last weekend, I headed out to Phoenix and Local Motors&nbsp; for a special event with the <A title=\"Tacoma World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tacomaworld.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tacoma World truck club<\/A>.&nbsp; This was a fun group of people with some nice looking trucks full of specialized modifications.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><A title=\"Local Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/Local-motors.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Local Motors<\/A> and the Tacoma group decided to do some specialized parts during the open house.&nbsp;&nbsp; They stared out with an introduction to Solid Edge Design1 which you can get through <A title=\"Solid Edge Design1 at Local Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/local-motors.com\/solidedge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Local Motors for about $19 a month<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>They then got some volunteers from the audience to do the design.&nbsp; \u201cHi, you have never used this software before but we want you to step up here and make this design in front of this crowd of people!\u201d&nbsp; Brave guys\u2026 and both looked like real experts up there.<BR \/><BR \/>After the design was complete, it was taken over to the water jet machine for fabrication.&nbsp; This is a device that shoots out a jet of water and sand to cut metal.&nbsp; From here, Local Motors and some of the Tacoma folks did some prep work, welded the pieces, and created one very cool trailer hitch.<BR \/><BR \/>I compressed the whole thing into a<A title=\"Tacoma World at Local Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVUfyax63zA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2 1\/2 minute video<\/A> that shows it going from art to part to art for Jeff&#8217;s Tacoma trailer hitch.Best to turn your speakers up to full volume when you play it \ud83d\ude42<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I headed out to Phoenix and Local Motors&nbsp; for a special event with the Tacoma World truck club.&nbsp; This was a fun group of people with some nice looking trucks full of specializ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}