A recent report by the Irish research firm Research and Markets find that the global security market for the Internet of Things should grow by slightly less than 50 percent through 2022. IoT security comprises security platforms, software solutions, services, and hardware used for securing and safeguarding IoT systems in the industrial, commercial, and consumer […]
CIMData Partners with Institute for Process Excellence
CIMdata, Inc., a PLM management consulting and research firm, and the Institute for Process Excellence (IpX) have recently partnered their services, which will allow them to offer end-to-end business and digital transformation training, services, and cross industry platforms, said Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s president. The partnership will allow for new professional education programs, services, and industry […]
PTC and Foundries.io Find Their Internet of Things Niches
As the Internet of Thing (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space continues to grow, companies that make applications for the connected platform continue to expand offerings, announce new products, and find success within the IoT market. This news comes as research firm Gartner finds that companies spent about $235 billion on the Internet […]
Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design
This eBook may not help you navigate out space, but it may help you be part of in the design of a machine or tool for outer-space exploration. EMA Design Automation, of Rochester, N.Y., which offers electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, has just released its new, free eBook “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design,” intended […]
An eBook to Aid a Design Method
Letting the computer generate designs from a designer’s directions may just be the future of design. Expect to see unorthodox, 3D-printed shapes all around in the not-to-distant future, as generative design can produce many valid designs rather than one, optimized version of an already-modeled part. The design methods will describe the way engineers can use […]
Simscale Updates Online Post-Processor for Simulation
Officials at VTOL Technologies, of Wokingham, England, have said they’ve recently increased their drone design’s lift by 20 percent, reduced drag by 2 percent, and shaved four weeks off design time. These savings were enabled by SimScale, of Munich, an online post processer that has recently been updated. VTOL used the post processor as part […]
Zuken Updates E3.series for Electric Configuration Management
Zuken, a maker of software for electrical and electronic design and manufacturing, has released an update to its E3.series, which helps engineers track the growing complexity within today’s products and processes. “We extended the modularity and variant management functions to empower the configuration management capabilities we recently introduced with our engineering data management environment DS-E3,” […]
Prostep PDF Generator Now Exports Data to HTML5
Prostep AG of Darmstadt, Germany has added new functions to its PDF Generator 3D software to enables 3D PDF documents to be created automatically and to be published on the web. The company makes product lifecycle management software for publishing 2D and 3D content. Version 8 now allows both the export of 3D data to […]
Automatic Updates for NX Coming Soon
In January, Siemens PLM Software will begin delivering its NX CAD design and analysis software in a continuous release model. This means the software updates are produced in short cycles and are released at any time. The approach helps reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering changes by allowing for more incremental updates to […]
Siemens Releases Solid Edge 2019 and Simcenter Testlab Neo
Siemens made two big announcements this week: the latest release of Solid Edge computer-aided design software, as well as an upgrade to its Simcenter Testlab software. Formerly LMS Test.Lab, the analysis tool is a suite of data collection, analytics, and modeling systems for test-based performance engineering. It’s most often used in noise and vibration, acoustics, […]
Creaform Releases 3D Measurement Tools for the Academic Market
The maker of 3D portable measurement technologies, Creaform, recently launched Creaform Academia, a new suite of 3D measurement tools designed especially for the academic market. The new product is a suite of tools designed for teachers and researchers who want to to integrate 3D scanning into their classroom. It allows them to educate future engineers […]
Specification Management and Compliance in Propel’s 2018 PLM Release
Propel, of Santa Clara, Calif., which makes product lifecycle management software, has introduced two new solutions in its most recent 2018 release intended to help companies improve product compliance and deepen customer trust. They are a specification management and compliance solution and a training records management solution. All Propel customers get these capabilities as part […]
Specification Management and Compliance in Propel’s 2018 PLM Release
Propel, of Santa Clara, Calif., which makes product lifecycle management software, has introduced two new solutions in its most recent 2018 release intended to help companies improve product compliance and deepen customer trust. They are a specification management and compliance solution and a training records management solution. All Propel customers get these capabilities as part […]
Siemens Opens its Additive Manufacturing Network for Early Adopters
Siemens recently launched its Additive Manufacturing Network, an online collaborative platform to bring on-demand design and engineering expertise, knowledge, digital tools, and production capacity for industrial 3D printing to the global manufacturing industry. The venture was first announced at Hannover Messe 2017 and is planned for rollout in mid-2018. The April launch is an early […]
JT Standard Now Standardly Used for CAD Visualization
Since the JT open standard became ISO certified in 2012 and then ISO-revised in 2017, the 3D data format, many, if not most, CAD programs have adopted JT functionality. JT is a standardized 3D data format used for product visualization, collaboration, CAD data exchange, and sometimes for long-term data retention. The JT file format can […]
OnScale Emerges from Stealth to Unveil Cloud Solver Platform
OnScale recently released its a solver-as-a-service platform called OnScale Cloud. The platform addresses demand for computer-aided engineering (CAE) and cloud computing resources to solve engineering challenges in areas such as, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), sensors, biomedical and smart car industries, according to Ian Campbell, OnScale’s chief executive officer. “The CAE/HPC space is ripe […]
Continued Growth for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Wohlers Associates notes the dramatic rise in the metal additive manufacturing industry in its recently released Wohlers Report 2018. The consultancy in Fort Collins, Colo., tracks the additive manufacturing (also called 3D printing) industry. The overall additive industry continues to grow at a rapid pace, with easily metal keeping up. In 2016, an estimated 983 […]
Romax Component Combines Driveline Models Within Simulia Insight
A component that embeds the RomaxDesigner process into Dassault Systèmes’ Simulia Isight application is now available. Engineering analysts can use the component to combine detailed driveline models within their Simulia Isight process, bringing its automation, integration and optimization capabilities to bear on the driveline discipline. Simulia Isight is used for simulation-based, repeatable, automated design processes. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Report: Simulation Software Market Set to Grow Through 2022
The increased need for eco-friendly environments and the growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs) will drive growth of the simulation software market over the next five years, according to the research agency Research and Markets. Aerospace and defense vertical is expected to have the largest market size during the forecast period The lack […]