From Local Workstations to a Secure SOLIDWORKS Cloud Workspace

Discover how a U.S.-based industrial machinery manufacturer centralized SOLIDWORKS workloads, improved collaboration between U.S. and India engineering teams, and scaled from 9 to 37 users in just 43 days with GPU-powered Cloud VDI.

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About Company

The company is a U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial machinery and automation equipment, specializing in custom production lines, special-purpose machines, and material-handling systems. Its distributed engineering teams across the United States and India use SOLIDWORKS to design, validate, and manage complex mechanical assemblies for engineer-to-order projects.

Challenges

Large SOLIDWORKS assemblies and Simulation workloads caused slow file opens, long rebuild times, and laggy performance on local workstations.
The company depended on expensive CAD workstations and GPUs, making hardware upgrades, maintenance, and replacements costly.
Engineering teams in the U.S. and India experienced slow, inconsistent remote access to SOLIDWORKS, which affected collaboration and productivity.
Files stored across multiple machines and locations created version conflicts, duplicate copies, and confusion over the latest revisions.
Sensitive design data and intellectual property remained on local devices, increasing security and data-loss risks.

Solutions

Provided each engineer with a dedicated Windows 11 cloud desktop with SOLIDWORKS and PDM pre-installed, accessible from PCs, laptops, and Mac devices.
Powered cloud desktops with NVIDIA RTX 6000/8000-class vGPUs, delivering smooth 3D rendering, faster rebuilds, and better large-assembly performance.
Completed the migration to a Citrix-based VDI environment at no additional cost, including desktop setup, SOLIDWORKS installation, PDM configuration, and data migration.
Tuned vCPU, RAM, SSD storage, GPU profiles, and Citrix settings specifically for SOLIDWORKS assemblies and Simulation workloads.
Centralized all SOLIDWORKS files and PDM data in the cloud, ensuring engineers always worked on the latest revision.
Provided 24x7 technical support for onboarding, VM optimization, SOLIDWORKS add-ins, and ongoing user assistance.

Business Impact

With Ace Cloud Hosting, the customer transformed SOLIDWORKS from a hardware-dependent desktop application into a secure, cloud-accessible engineering workspace. Engineers across the head office and the India design center now design on powerful GPU desktops, collaborate in a centralized place, and keep valuable design IP protected in certified data centers, while IT manages it all centrally and scales capacity on demand.

SOLIDWORKS is no longer limited by the machine it runs on; it runs wherever the work needs to happen.

~4×

Scale-up: 9 → 37 users

43 days

Pilot to full rollout

~40%

Faster large assembly opens

1 Hour

Not weeks, to provision a new desktop

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Delivering High-Performance VDI for Modern Workloads

Ace Cloud Hosting, an authorized Citrix partner, delivers secure, scalable, and fully managed Desktop as a Service solutions built for today’s business demands. Our GPU-powered VDI service enables teams to run graphics-intensive applications such as Autodesk Revit, Maya, AutoCAD, and SOLIDWORKS with smooth performance and secure remote access. Backed by enterprise-grade Tier 4/5 data centers across the US, India, and Singapore, we help businesses support multi-user workloads, improve flexibility, and deliver a consistent desktop experience from anywhere.