1.   Much of the beauty of a good machine is in its mechanical design, as well as in its fuel efficiency.

2.   But last month, Hirschtick hit the entrepreneurial jackpot with his second company, SolidWorks Inc., a developer of mechanical design automation software.

3.   Chesson, the Canadian engineer, remembers a discussion of mechanical design with a large American customer in which engineers from the two companies were becoming frustrated.

4.   Parametric, also known as PTC, develops and sells three-dimension mechanical design software.

5.   Shares of the supplier of mechanical design automation software rose on investor speculation that the company had received a contract with Xerox Corp.

6.   Structural Dynamics supplies mechanical design automation software.

7.   That kind of machine beauty also shared something with more intimate examples of mechanical design ranging from early Victrolas to mechanical clocks.

8.   The company makes equipment for automating mechanical design.

9.   The company makes software that automates the mechanical design of products.

10.   The company develops software for automating the mechanical design of products.