Design and CAD
Many of the major advances we have made in recent times have a lot to owe to the power that today's modern design and CAD systems offer us engineers. Today we live in an exciting world where are are almost limited only by what we can imagine.
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The golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width. Also known as the golden section, golden mean and divine proportion, among other names, it has intrigued mathematicians and artists alike for centuries. The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids, the architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it, and many artists have fashioned their works around it. This includes Leonardo da Vinci, who used it in the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man. Now a Duke University scientist believes he has figured out the secret behind the golden ratio’s popularity – and it’s all down to evolution. |
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Wednesday 30 December, 2009 03:10 PM |
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Researchers at Japan's Chiba University are developing a hummingbird-style flying robot that could be used to find people trapped in collapsed buildings, search for criminals, or even explore other planets. |
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Wednesday 30 December, 2009 01:30 PM |
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Chinese firms are increasing their investments in quality research, product design and manufacturing in order to create products suitable for the rapidly growing number of middle-class Chinese consumers. As a majority of product optimizations and changes in design are based on CAE software, the Chinese market for CAE software is expected to increase/grow in the coming years. |
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Wednesday 30 December, 2009 10:44 AM |
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HP has announced the expansion of its large-format printer portfolio for the technical sector.
The range of new workgroup printers, software solutions and media choices are designed to help technical firms that specialise in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), geographic information systems (GIS) applications, and mechanical computer-aided design drive new business opportunities. The range includes:
• Three new additions to HP’s line-up of large-format printers - the HP Designjet T1200, HP Designjet T770, and HP Designjet T620 Printer series – that offer an improved workflow experience
• Four enhanced software solutions designed to increase productivity, reduce costs and deliver high-quality results to capture more business
• New and improved HP bond papers with ColorPRO Technology and HP Recycled Bond Paper, made of 100% recycled base paper. |
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Friday 18 December, 2009 09:14 AM |
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If Mesh hadn't told us that BMW was involved, we'd never have known. The computer doesn't have kidney-shaped grilles, a Hofmeister kink or any other bits of BMW design DNA.
It's just a weirdly shaped PC case with a few glowing bits on it. BMW may have made some seriously stupid-looking cars in recent years, but compared to the Mesh they're masterpieces of restraint. |
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Wednesday 16 December, 2009 02:36 PM |
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Product development is the process of turning ideas into physical reality. It is the marriage of elements, between invention and execution, from turning inspiration into engineering drawings, and from designs to manufacturing a product repeatedly in mass quantities. |
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Wednesday 16 December, 2009 09:30 AM |
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The Dutch yacht company Ghost Yachts and Italian design company Gloss Design unveil their first project to the public, the Ghost Yachts G180. The yacht embodies the best of two of the leading superyacht building nations. An unmistakable refined Italian styling combined with cutting edge Dutch engineering and build technology. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 04:51 PM |
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If you peer out over the painstakingly rendered Venetian skyline in Assassin's Creed II, or watch a car being convincingly torn to pieces during a high speed crash in Forza Motorsport 3 one thing is abundantly clear. Videogames are beautiful now.
It's not the figurative beauty of yore – the iconic charm of Pac-Man, the elegiac simplicity of the vector-mapped space craft in Elite. Modern games are edging toward photo-realism; indeed, through technologies like mimetic interfaces and augmented reality, they are encroaching on reality itself. And at times they are breathtakingly close. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 12:47 PM |
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Cranes Software announces that its subsidiary Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) was selected from amongst five finalists as the winner of the 2nd Annual SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Detroit Section/MITEF Vehicle Innovation Competition. ETA’s winning entry was a seamlessly integrated design development process, entitled the Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 06:42 AM |
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Iberdrola Ingeniería Y Construcción (Engineering & Construction), one of the world’s leading energy engineering companies, has expanded its use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions to further increase productivity and accelerate projects throughout the design, engineering and construction cycle of its power generation and distribution construction projects. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 09:29 AM |
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A recent article by Don Norman brings up some valuable and provocative questions about the value of design research. I read it as an extension of his previous shift in thinking about the value of usability analysis, where he concluded that it was vital for good to design, but it didn't lead to great design. In this new article he argues that design research has not led to breakthrough innovations or products, but is better suited for improving existing products and technologies. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 03:41 PM |
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Now available free upon request, popular CD-ROM saves time, simplifies design engineering, and eliminates the need to create in-house drawings.
A subsidiary of Misumi Corporation, part of Misumi Group announces that the Misumi 3D CAD Model library in CD-ROM format is now available upon request, free of charge, to machine builders, automation system designers and product design engineers. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 01:38 PM |
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Dassault Systemes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Isight 4.0, its market-leading simulation process automation and design optimization solution from SIMULIA. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 01:37 PM |
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PTC, the Product Development Company® , today announced that China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd . (Siyuan), one of the largest survey and design organizations in China, has successfully deployed Mathcad® , PTC’s engineering calculation software, as its standard platform for bridge design. With the deployment, Siyuan has significantly improved its design efficiency and engineering calculation collaboration. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 07:28 AM |
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Autodesk has announced SHP Leading Design, a multidisciplinary architectural design and engineering firm based in Ohio, a recipient of the Autodesk BIM Experience Award for its industry-wide advocacy of building information modelling (BIM) as a process, and its extensive use of BIM for integrated design and construction, sustainable design and facilities management. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 06:26 AM |
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Anark Corporation, leading provider of 3D CAD transformation solutions, today announced it has joined the JT Open Program and now supports the native JT™ data format in Anark Core Platform version 3.
The JT Open Program is an industry initiative sponsored by Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. The JT Open Program was created to help members leverage the benefits of open collaboration across the extended enterprise through the adoption of the JT data format. JT is the manufacturing industry's most widely used lightweight data format for sharing vital product information--including detailed 3D product geometry--to facilitate effective enterprise-wide collaboration throughout a product's lifecycle. Many academic institutions and major manufacturing enterprises spanning aerospace, automotive, consumer products and several other industries have successfully adopted JT for the purposes of visualization, collaboration and data sharing. |
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Tuesday 8 December, 2009 09:26 PM |
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McLaren's engineering director Paddy Lowe admits the team will be taking a more aggressive approach to their 2010 car, and that it will not favour one driver more than the other.
The design of the car was practically set in stone before World Champion Jenson Button signed with the team, suggesting the model will suit Lewis Hamilton more, but Lowe has rubbished such concerns. |
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Wednesday 2 December, 2009 10:20 AM |
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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc . said Tuesday that it received a contract to provide design services to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Under the $99 million contract, the Pasadena engineering and construction company will provide architectural and engineering design and related services for air traffic control centers and radar approach control facilities at San Juan, Guam, and other FAA owned, operated, or sponsored facilities. |
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Wednesday 2 December, 2009 09:19 AM |
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Aberdeen Group , a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), has revealed the top strategies for system design that lead to greater profitability while reducing the risk of excess cost in a new research study, "System Engineering: Top Four Design Tips to Increase Profit Margins for Mechatronics and Smart Products." |
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Thursday 26 November, 2009 12:21 PM |
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LMS, the engineering innovation company, has released the latest version of its integrated solution for 3D functional performance simulation: LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9. A milestone release, the LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9 software suite is filled with brand-new performance capabilities and breakthrough technology to ramp up engineering productivity, most notably with new BEM and FEM capabilities and a brand-new ray tracing solution in LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics. Dedicated industrial application solutions found in LMS Virtual.Lab Motion have been significantly enhanced for improved usability as well, while the new thermal fatigue solution in LMS Virtual.Lab Durability and the MADYMO coupling safety feature in LMS Virtual.Lab Structures are clearly breakthrough solutions in their respective simulation markets. |
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Wednesday 25 November, 2009 01:45 PM |
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The current world land speed record was set in 1997 by Britain’s Andy Green in the ThrustSSC.
He reached 763.035 mph (1,227.986 km/h) – the first supersonic land speed record.
Now 12 years on, the Brits are at it again, however the goal is far more ambitious this time. |
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Wednesday 25 November, 2009 09:44 AM |
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