Creo Customers: Sport Court Keeps Balls Bouncing

by Geoff Hedges

Next time you watch a game of tennis, soccer, futzbal, or even table tennis–look down. You might be witnessing a Creo engineering success story. Many playing courts, indoor and outdoor, now are constructed with Sport Court’s athletic surfaces, designed with Creo’s direct modeling tools.

The Sport Court surfaces are made of modular synthetic tiles in home, college, and professional athletic venues all over the world. While each tile looks fairly straightforward, there are dozens of characteristics the Sport Court development team might have designed into it, for example, traction, weather resistance, drainage, safety, speed, abrasion, grip, versatility, interlock, and responsiveness. It turns out, the engineering behind an athletic floor can be as skilled, elegant, and rugged as the people who use it.

And that leads us to another installment of The Product Design Show in which Vince and Alison explain how Creo keeps balls bouncing everywhere. Go to Creo's blog to read the full article.