International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) is proud to announce that their UK operation, International TechneGroup Ltd., has expanded its organization at their offices in Landshut, Germany (Munich). ITI is enjoying an increase in demand for CAD consolidation projects as part of PLM system migrations with major companies throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the DACH region). Customers […]
Using augmented or mixed reality for a “digital twin”
Augmented and Mixed Reality have a lot of traction in the Internet of Things (IoT) as key tools to support the Digital twin process, which Industry 4.0 is espousing and sees big benefits in. One element of the digital-twin concept is already present in 3D models created by CAD. CAD is an accurate digital representation […]
CAD Models on Mars
Contestants in a recent Mars design challenge are creating 3D CAD models that depict buildings and vehicles that would allow humans to colonize the red planet. Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor Sometime in the not too distant future, one million humans will live in the Mars Valley located on the planet Mars. Okay, that’s far from […]
Designers Have the Know-how to Create an All-Terrain Wheelchair
When Christian Bagg broke his back after failing to land a trick in a snowboarding competition, the 21 year old spent the next three months adjusting to life as a paraplegic. Right away, he noticed something about his wheelchair: it was horribly uncomfortable. Because he was more than six feet tall, Bagg needed to bring […]
Innovative motor designs for electric cars come to life through Multiphysics
The automotive industry is in the midst of a disruption, and the transcendence of electric vehicles from niche to mainstream products is a driving force behind this change. Yet challenges remain to improve the motor designs used in electric vehicles. One potential solution is the use of Power Magnetic Devices (PMDs), a category of devices […]
COMSOL Days 2018 hits the road in Paris this spring
COMSOL is excited to announce the COMSOL Days 2018 schedule of events for the worldwide tour. COMSOL Days offer a full day program with technical presentations and breakout sessions focusing on major application areas of multiphysics simulation. COMSOL Days are free-of-charge, welcoming engineers and researchers to connect with COMSOL software users, get inspired by invited […]
Collaboration works to improve CAD simulation
SimScale GmbH (“SimScale”), a provider of the full-cloud engineering simulation platform, announced a collaboration with Siemens PLM Software and Tech Soft 3D to optimize the simulation workflow through better CAD model handling. SimScale will bring the benefits of Siemens’ Parasolid software and HOOPS Exchange to a browser-based CAE. The latest release of SimScale, available shortly, […]
Tech-X VSim software for simulating electromagnetics and particles together joins Altair Partner Alliance
Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research Altair Engineering, Inc. announced the addition of Tech-X’s VSim to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) software offerings, making VSim available for integrated use by Altair HyperWorks customers. VSim is a computational application for simulating electromagnetics in the presence of complex structures and dynamical charged particles. By supporting massively parallel computing […]
MIT Group Moves to Grow Engineered Products
MIT Professor Neri Oxman believes a new bio-digital age is at hand, an age where bits, atoms, and genes, moves from assembly to biology. Oxman shared her work toward the future at SolidWorks World 2018, held in early February in Los Angeles. “How can we no longer assemble our products but grow them?” asked Oxman, […]
New Dassault Systèmes Online Service Matches Buyers With Parts and Model Makers
It’s like a dating service for engineers seeking parts and 3D CAD models. Dassault Systèmes formally unveiled its new service that matches parts manufacturers and CAD parts models with the engineers and designers looking for those very things. Executives introduced the online 3DExperience Marketplace at SolidWorks World 2018, held in Los Angeles last week. SolidWorks […]
Meta announces new Augmented Reality Integration with SOLIDWORKS
Meta Company, a pioneer in the augmented reality (AR) field, announced that it will offer 3D CAD viewing capabilities in AR integrated with Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS applications. SOLIDWORKS “Publish to Xtended Reality” capability will allow users to export a CAD model from SOLIDWORKS to a custom version of an open-source format known as “glTF.” Once […]
Russia’s JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau accelerates marine design approval with ESI’s IC.IDO VR solution
Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research JSC Zelenodolsk Design Bureau, part of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation, designs compartments for marine vessels. Design approval by customers was conventionally a lengthy process—how long depended on the complexity of compartments, and their number. Full-scale physical models of packed compartments were constructed in dedicated mockup sections for customer inspection and […]
BOXX demos world’s fastest SOLIDWORKS workstation
BOXX Technologies, a leading innovator of high-performance workstations, rendering systems, and servers, announced that APEXX S3, the world’s fastest workstation, will be demonstrated at BOXX booth #811 at SOLIDWORKS World 2018, Feb. 4-7, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. A Dassault Systèmes Corporate Partner, designated SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner, and leading manufacturer […]
Altair releases Inspire 2018 simulation-driven design software
Altair (Nasdaq:ALTR) announced the release of Inspire 2018 simulation-driven design software. It is available through its solidThinking channel partner network and directly to its HyperWorks user community. “Inspire 2018 enables designers and engineers to leverage simulation in new and inventive ways to accelerate the development of high-performance, innovative products,” says James Dagg, CTO for User Experience […]
Latest release of IronCAD Mechanical streamlines mechanical design processes
IronCAD, LLC has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its powerful IronCAD Mechanical add-on for the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2018. This new release offers many new customer-driven enhancements that further extend IronCAD’s capabilities, allowing mechanical designers to increase their productivity. Some of the improvements to IronCAD Mechanical include: Trim Steels Supports […]
6 ways Onshape helps you dump your Laptop!
Phil Foley, guest blogger 1. You no longer have to travel with a laptop Engineers, designers and other users of Solidworks, Inventor, Creo and Rhino, it’s time to dump your laptops. Onshape is the first web-based 3D Computer-aided-design package. Can a web-based package handle or even compete with your custom built, rock solid Workstation? Yes. […]
500 papers and posters on Multiphysics Simulation Available for public access
The 2017 COMSOL Conference, held in seven locations across the globe, brought together thousands of engineers, researchers, and designers worldwide. Attendees connected and exchanged best practices in mathematical modeling and multiphysics simulation. Keynote presentations were delivered by industry leaders such as Amgen, W. L. Gore and Associates, and STMicroelectronics. Attendees also got a behind the […]
OpenBOM Users Can Upload BOMs to BOX
OpenBOM, a collaborative bill of materials (BOM) and inventory management system for engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain now offers its users the ability to also upload and link CAD data BOM to the cloud content management platform Box. The cloud-based OpenBOM system takes bill of materials management into the cloud to allow small engineering companies […]
Iowa State University’s Formula SAE team uses solidThinking Inspire to slash weight of rear aerodynamic wing
Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research Cyclone Racing, Iowa State University’s Formula SAE team, consists of 40+ active members who design, build, test and race a formula-style race car each year to compete with approximately 80 teams representing seven different countries at the Formula Lincoln event and some 30 different teams at the Formula North event. […]
App Uses a 2D Photo to Search for Matching 3D CAD Parts
CADSeek Mobile, a recently released engineering shape-search tool from iSEEK Corp. of Ames, Iowa, lets users take 2D photos of parts on their Android, IOS or Windows mobile device and to use those images to automatically search their company’s 3D CAD databases for the piece pictures or for a similarly shaped part. Small parts in […]
Bison Gear and Engineering launches web-based 3D CAD configurator
Bison Gear and Engineering has launched an all-new online configurator of digital CAD models for their most popular gearmotors. The configurator enables users to customize and download the exact product they need and apply it into their design. This tool streamlines the product specification process and provides on-demand access to digital product information and 3D […]
ANSYS and Rescale offer on-demand, pay-per-use ANSYS Software on Rescale’s ScaleX Cloud HPC Platform
Rescale, the leading provider of enterprise big compute and cloud HPC, is pleased to announce that ANSYS Elastic Licensing can now be purchased directly through Rescale’s ScaleX, a SaaS platform purpose-built for solving the world’s most challenging engineering, scientific and mathematical problems with HPC in the cloud. ANSYS Elastic Licensing is an on-demand, pay-per-use licensing […]
Altair Partner Alliance Expands Software Offering
Altair Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq:ALTR) is pleased to announce the addition of twelve new partner products to The Altair Partner Alliance (APA) software offering in 2017 with more to come in 2018. The APA expanded their offering in several domains including human modeling, additive manufacturing, electromagnetics, multi-physics, CFD and more. As of the end of 2017, […]
Dassault Systèmes announces Global Entrepreneur Program to accompany startups, entrepreneurs and makers
Dassault Systèmes announced at CES its Global Entrepreneur Program to accelerate the development of breakthrough innovations by startups, entrepreneurs and makers. The program, which leverages Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, applications, expertise, and community of mentors and services, delivers a full portfolio of tailored solutions and different types of engagement to accompany innovators at every step […]
Using CAD to Reach Customers
Because digital technology is increasingly influencing how customers shop, companies need to create innovative ways to engage with customers digitally. Why is this of relevance on a blog devoted to CAD technology and its use? The CAD programs that engineers use every day have uses beyond engineering. Like for advertising. Those models can be—and often […]