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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There’s no denying that dual-clutch gearboxes are the way of the future for most automakers, with everything from hypercars like the Bugatti Veyron to fuel-efficient econo cars like the Volkswagen Polo now available with the advanced cog-swapper. Dual-clutch gearboxes offer the comfort and ease of use of an automatic, better fuel economy than a manual, and shift times faster than the gearbox in an F1 car, so it’s only a matter of time until they will become the predominant gearbox choice in the auto market.
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 09:09 AM |
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PBBI Natural Resources (formerly Encom) has announced the latest version of its Discover GIS solutions suite. Encom Discover 11 and Discover 3D 5, in tandem with MapInfo Professional 10, provides geoscientists, engineers and cartographers with a solution for data collection, visualisation, professional map production, analysis and modelling in both the 2D and 3D environments.
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 12:42 AM |
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People have been lifting ideas from Mother Nature for decades. Velcro was inspired by the hooked barbs of thistle, and the first highway reflectors were made to mimic cat eyes. But today, the science of copying nature, a field known as biomimetics, is a billion-dollar industry. Here are some of our favorite technologies that came in from the wild. |
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Tuesday 8 September, 2009 11:41 AM |
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Blue Ridge Numerics is releasing CFdesign 2010, which the company says is the first CFD (computational fluid dynamics) application to provide a comprehensive, CAD-driven design study environment that enables engineers to investigate pass-fail and what-if engineering scenarios as part of a highly efficient workflow. This major upgrade addresses the needs of design engineers by providing a CFD environment that enables intuitive, fast, and simple setup and exploration of what-if design scenarios, thereby helping to uncover critical CFD data on the first try. First time, occasional, and advanced users are able to make decisions that satisfy pass-fail targets, while exploring ideas that can improve quality and drive innovation.
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Tuesday 8 September, 2009 07:38 AM |
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On September 1, Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp . unveiled the SolidWorks 2010 product line, a new set of software products that optimize and bulletproof the core product design functions that make designers and engineers successful every day. Through the use of CAD, simulation, data management, documentation, and environmental impact assessment, organizations will transform their inspirations into innovation, supported by a vibrant community of CAD users, content, technology, and expertise.
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Monday 7 September, 2009 02:35 PM |
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Aircraft manufacturing is set to take off in Melbourne, with the establishment of a new research centre to design and develop cutting edge aerospace technologies. Swinburne University of Technology and aerospace industry leader Boeing have teamed up to establish the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AusAMRC) in Melbourne. The centre will improve Australia's global competitiveness by developing new aerospace manufacturing technologies. This will be done in partnership with local manufacturers wanting to join the aerospace industry supply chain.
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Sunday 6 September, 2009 01:58 PM |
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Ocean-going merchant ships —which can carry up to 180,000 tons of bulk cargo such as iron ore or coal—are continually slammed, not just by shifting natural forces but also by loads, such as forces of 10 to 14 tons generated by the propellers, and up to 200 ton meters exerted by the engine on the vessel structure. These forces have the potential to generate vibrations that can make life miserable for the crew and, over time, damage the ship.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 09:56 AM |
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dezineforce has partnered with Microsoft to make its cutting-edge design search and optimization and decision support suite available as an appliance to give engineering companies an alternative mode of access to the unique capabilities of the dezineforce solution.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 05:53 AM |
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On September 7, the James Dyson Award - an honor created to engage exceptional design, industrial design and engineering students- will be given out to the individual who best designs “something that solves a problem”. The winner receives a prize of £10,000 pounds, as well as a donation towards their alma mater’s design engineering department.
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Tuesday 1 September, 2009 11:25 AM |
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Sometime around Christmas last year, a couple of folks at an oilfield-equipment firm just west of Edmonton sketched out an idea on a napkin.
The challenge was to make a coiled tubing system work on a new drilling ship being built for service in the North Sea. It hadn't been done before, but this week, Fluid Design Solutions Inc. is doing the final tests on a $4-million unit that is bound for the British sector of the rich oilfield.
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Monday 31 August, 2009 02:23 PM |
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A new addition to GHS software , the Crane Module, makes life a little easier for naval architects charged with calculating the complicated effects of a crane's performance on barges. Although the Crane Module is useful for modeling any crane, it is especially powerful in modeling large cranes with multiple hooks mounted on a barge or ship. |
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Saturday 29 August, 2009 04:48 AM |
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The competition, created by the American Helicopter Society International, challenges engineers to develop a human-powered helicopter that can reach an altitude of at least 10 feet during a hover lasting 60 seconds. No one has accomplished this feat yet.
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Saturday 29 August, 2009 02:46 AM |
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A smaller scale, economically efficient nuclear reactor that could be mass-assembled in factories and supply power for a medium-size city or military base has been designed by Sandia National Laboratories.
The exportable, proliferation-resistant “right-sized reactor” was conceived by a Sandia research team led by Tom Sanders. |
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Friday 28 August, 2009 06:40 PM |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stylus Automotive Pvt. Ltd, a design services company founded by India’s first woman automotive designer, have chosen think3’s ThinkDesign as the best CAD package for the VDS (Vehicle Design Summit) project to design the eco friendly car, VDS Vision 100, which is set to thrive the streets of India.
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Friday 28 August, 2009 10:35 AM |
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The car glides from the garage area, coming to a smooth stop on a round platform. It turns slowly, offering viewers a detailed, 360-degree look at every angle, line and curve. On the 25-foot screen, the image is crisp and clear, highlighting even the merest glimmer of the metallic flakes in the paint.
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Thursday 27 August, 2009 03:01 PM |
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Things ain't what they used to be, and no mistake. This, more or less, is what Alice Rawsthorn, a well-known champion of modern design and ex-director of London's Design Museum, told New York Times readers on Sunday. Modern British design is often not very good, she says. Whether she turns her eye to telephone kiosks, London buses or the "achingly embarrassing" 2012 London Olympics logo, Rawsthorn sees change and decay all around.
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Thursday 27 August, 2009 10:58 AM |
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New Version of Automotive Visualization Software Adds 64bit Support, Animation and Presentation Improvements, HyperShot Round-trip Integration.
Los Angeles – Bunkspeed has announced the immediate availability of HyperDrive'10, the highly anticipated follow-up release to the all new animation and driving system for automotive designers, photographers and marketers. |
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Friday 21 August, 2009 08:15 PM |
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I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten.
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Friday 21 August, 2009 02:10 PM |
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Eight automobile engineers from Detroit, the car capital of the United States, will join Maruti Suzuki’s operations in India in the next two months, as part of the start of the latter’s plan to transform itself as the largest research and development centre for parent Suzuki outside Japan. |
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Friday 21 August, 2009 08:04 AM |
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Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman admits that computer-aided design—CAD—is one of the most important inventions of our time. But it has its limitations—and no program, no matter how sophisticated, can replace hands-on experience. Here’s why Jamie thinks an engineer’s work is better if he has memories of his own blood smeared on his tools. |
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Thursday 20 August, 2009 03:02 PM |
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National Instruments and Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. announced their collaboration on a pioneer mechatronics tool that will help mechanical and control engineers work together to lower the cost and risk of motion system design.
The new virtual prototyping solution seamlessly connects the NI LabVIEW graphical system design software and SolidWorks 3D CAD software. With it, engineers and scientists can design, optimise, validate and visualise the real-world performance of machines and motion systems before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Because LabVIEW is used for controlling the virtual prototype, engineers and scientists can deploy their graphical software to physical NI hardware with little to no change to the code. |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 02:00 PM |
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