Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week. » Latest Engineering News » Design and CADDesign 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 new machine, designed and built by WKU electrical engineering students Kory Liszt and Jack Wallace, is called a submersible remotely operated vehicle , and its makers plan to see their creation used by the Warren County Rescue Department for underwater searches.
"This will have a definite impact on the community and may help save lives someday," said WKU electrical engineering professor Walter Collett.
Liszt and Wallace, both seniors, spent nearly two years working on the ROS, designing the mechanical and electrical systems as well as the power, control and video components on their own time.
The ROS eventually turned into their junior class project, and was developed for $4,000.
"I've always been looking for some hands-on experience because I feel that's how you learn the skills you need," said Liszt, 22, of Pleasanton, Calif. "It's been cool to see how this works in real-world applications."
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Sunday 9 November, 2008 11:56 AM |
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As every five-year-old knows, balancing on a bicycle is not as easy as it looks. But, as engineers know, getting a bicycle to balance by itself – without a human riding it – is even more difficult.
Despite the challenge, engineers from Keio University in Yokohama, Japan, are developing a self-stabilizing electric bicycle, one that can stay upright by itself while being propelled and steered by electric motors. Their ultimate goal is to create a sophisticated, high-performance bicycle that could serve as a convenient alternative to a small car.
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Wednesday 5 November, 2008 11:57 PM |
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Tuesday 4 November, 2008 11:56 PM |
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Delcam will take design software to a new level with the launch later this year of a new version of its CopyCAD reverse engineering package . CopyCAD Pro will be the first product development system to offer “Tribrid Modeling”, by adding triangle modeling to the combination of surface and solid modeling that is currently offered in many existing CAD packages as “hybrid modeling”. The extended range of functionality is ideal for the re-engineering of existing products into improved or bespoke designs.
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Saturday 1 November, 2008 04:31 AM |
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The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces new services for CAD developers and end-users to implement DRX support for obsolete or legacy ARX custom object applications developed with the Autodesk ObjectARX programming environment.
Custom object applications are often designed for specialized CAD drawings, such as mechanical, electrical, architecture, or civil engineering, allowing end-users to create custom entities quickly and accurately and use custom commands that increase productivity.
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Thursday 30 October, 2008 06:47 AM |
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As a partner sponsor in the long-running Formula Student single-seat racing car design and build competition, Autodesk has launched the Autodesk Formula car design curriculum as a free download to assist competitors and faculty staff. The curriculum is available for free-of-charge download at the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community website, www.autodesk.com/edcommunity.
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Wednesday 29 October, 2008 10:32 AM |
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What would you build if it were possible to build anything at all?
That wild question bedevils architecture professors trying to give their students an appropriate challenge. 3-D design software and digital-fabrication equipment mean that the old rules no longer constrain their students. Walls need not be straight. Corners don't need to meet at right angles.
Recently, Ben Nicholson, a visiting critic at the University of Houston, suggested an idea to Joe Meppelink and Andrew Vrana, who teach classes in the brave new techniques. Why not have students reconsider a project that, 50 years ago, was far ahead of its time? Why not attempt to build a design what famously could not be built?
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Wednesday 29 October, 2008 09:43 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance, were determined by technologists, artisans, designers, inventors, and engineers - using nonscientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In the development of Western technology, it has been nonverbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings. Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who built them.
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Wednesday 22 October, 2008 06:09 AM |
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A new online service will enable small and mid-sized engineering firms to create digital simulations of their factories. It aims to help companies identify production bottlenecks and win new business from larger firms.
This is the thinking behind Dassault Systemes Delmia's (DSD) decision to make its V6 product lifecycle management software available both as a standalone product and a service.
V6 allows firms to build a detailed digital model of their factory. It captures machine and human activities and operating parameters as well as work and materials flows, and builds an animated simulation of a production line. Planners can zoom into any aspect of the line to check tolerances and try alternatives.
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Friday 17 October, 2008 09:22 PM |
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THE ADVENT OF TECHNOLOGY and digital lifestyles , increased globalisation, a boom in worldwide infrastructure and the impact on climate change and the environment are shaping the need for capacity and resources to accommodate rapid population growth, urbanisation and industrialisation.
Taking the architecture, engineering and construction sector as an example, a report released by BCI Asia in January 2008 highlights new building projects in Malaysia are expected to develop strongly in 2008. Statistics have shown that the development size of hotels and industrial projects is expected to boom over 50% by end of this year. On the other hand, the recreational projects are set to increase by a whopping 137%.
Such growth fueled by profound global trends has raised the stakes for success, requiring the nation to innovate in order to remain competitive and profitable. Today, design plays a fundamental role in driving successful innovation in many parts of the world, unlike the past when it was being seen as merely an aesthetic value- add. The evolution of the design field, which unleashes the integration of visualisation and intelligence into the design process, amplifies the function of design as a strategic tool for driving and delivering concrete innovation.
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Tuesday 14 October, 2008 04:38 PM |
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I feel lucky that during the course of my professional life span (about 26 years now) I've seen the evolution of several new handgun cartridges: the .40S&W, the .357Sig and the .45GAP to name a few. As a cynic I look at each in doubt until they've been proven "on the street". I also tend to measure them against what I consider to be the tried and true service cartridges - the 9mm and the .45ACP. This week I'm reporting on my test work with the Glock Model 32; Glock's mid-size version chambered for the .357Sig cartridge.
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Saturday 4 October, 2008 08:34 AM |
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The Brainstorm is a new section of Product Design & Development where we talk with industry leaders to get their perspective on issues critical to the overall design engineering marketplace. In this issue, we ask:
In examining ways to improve energy efficiency in product design, do you think more attention should be paid to component composition or power supply/fuel?
As a semiconductor component supplier for consumer electronic products, we have to maximize power efficiency and lower the power consumption of our components in order to maximize battery life. This is especially true in cell phones and PDAs, where battery efficiency is critical and a true competitive differentiator.
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Friday 3 October, 2008 09:29 AM |
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A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built at the University of Michigan and deployed to study space weather, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation.
Undergraduate and graduate students will be heavily involved in this Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) project, led by the University of Michigan and SRI International, a California-based independent research and technology development organization.
This CubeSat, as it's called, will be the first free-flying spacecraft built in part by U-M students. Members of the Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory (S3FL) will play an important role. S3FL is an organization that gives students practical space systems design and fabrication experience.
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Thursday 2 October, 2008 09:11 PM |
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At first glance, University of Michigan researcher Jay Guo's invention just might look like a small newspaper printing press.
But look closer, he said, and you'll see a machine that can continuously imprint tiny computer chips with information nearly as easily as a compact disc burner writes on a CD.
The U-M electrical engineering and computer science professor's hope is to bring down the cost of making the chips. The same technology can be used to more easily make solar panels and LCD screens.
"We want to perfect this technology and find more and more applications for it," Guo said.
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Wednesday 1 October, 2008 09:30 PM |
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We've reported on micro and nano sized turbines in the past and today they look one step closer to reality. The University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering MEMS Sensors and Acturators Lab issued a press release detailing their latest work, including a microscale pump and turbogenerator.
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Tuesday 30 September, 2008 08:54 PM |
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ZWCAD Software Co. Ltd . has just successfully accomplished its "China CAD Software Solution Tour" by leading a series of national seminars organized by China CAD Software Vendor Alliance.
These seminars spread over 14 cities (i.e. Wuhan, Shanghai, Harbin, Guangzhou, Xian, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, etc.), highlighting the latest 'state-of-the-art' CAD technologies of ZWCAD and showcasing customized CAD solutions to industry professionals.
With the information explosion in the software industry, CAD has become the third most important software after "Operating Systems" and "Office Software." Today CAD is widely deployed all over the world in engineering, manufacturing, construction, electronics and many other industries.
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Monday 29 September, 2008 02:22 PM |
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Autodesk, Inc. , a leader of design and engineering software, today will host the opening of the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco, an interactive environment that highlights the impact of software and technology on the process of innovative design.
The 16,500-square-foot Gallery, located at One Market Street, is the first space in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to the spirit of design innovation, with 20 exhibits including the California Academy of Sciences, Ford Shelby GT500, Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, Calif., and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge seismic retrofit. The space is intended as a location where designers can discuss the latest in technology and be inspired by others' work.
"The Autodesk Gallery showcases the work of our customers from across a number of industries, including architects, engineers, manufacturers, film makers, video game developers and artists," said Carl Bass, Autodesk president and CEO. "The exhibits encourage rich conversations about the latest design software and provide an ideal environment for industry collaboration."
The Gallery is also intended to become a meeting space for the design industry. "The Autodesk Gallery is an inspiring space where we can also interact with the community--schools, industry groups and local and visiting designers," said Bass. visit www.autodesk.com/thegallery.
The Autodesk Gallery will be open to the public on the first Wednesday of each month from 1 to 5 p.m. beginning Oct. 1, 2008.
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 05:55 PM |
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Looking into the future is easy to do at autumn bicycle trade shows when manufacturers highlight their new products. A new trend is now emerging - the retro look is honing in on bicycle design.
"The retro trend in bicycle design so far has been on the fringes, but you can certainly assume that it will continue and gain impetus," said Andre Glaeser of Germany's bicycle club. Siegfried Neuberger, director of Germany's two-wheeler industry association, agrees.
Glaeser reports that more and more people are engaged in constructing mountain bikes with classic components. Similarly, in the area of racing bicycles, styles from the 1960s and '70s are attracting new followers.
A bicycle known as the Cruiser shows that manufacturers are following the retro trend. This bike has simpler but sought-after engineering because it borrows from old motorcycle design.
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 01:54 PM |
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Tata Elxsi , the embedded technology arm of the Tata group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Open Engineering, the R&D subsidiary of the Belgium headquartered Samtech Group, Europe’s leading provider of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software. As per the MoU, Tata Elxsi will be Open Engineering’s exclusive partner in India for the distribution and support of OOFELIE®, a multi-physics numerical simulation professional software dedicated to provide an open powerful but easy to use CAD CAE all-in-one solution for industrial engineering departments and research centers.
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Wednesday 24 September, 2008 05:26 PM |
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Alibre, Inc. today announced theavailability of the next major release of its flagship 3D CAD software,Alibre Design(TM) 11.0 (V11) . Following the largest and most successfulBeta testing program in the company's history, V11 reinforces Alibre'sposition as the value leader in the professional 3D CAD market. Inaddition to migrating the entire code base to the .NET platform, V11effectively doubles the size of assemblies that can be handled, withoften-used assembly operations being as much as ten times faster, andincludes significant 2D drawing speed enhancements and featureimprovements. New with V11 is the tightly integrated Alibre Vault(TM) byM-Files®, a comprehensive, easy-to-use product data management (PDM)system with exceptionally strong Alibre Design and Windows integration.
"We are extremely excited about the V11 release," says Paul Grayson, AlibreChairman and CEO. "Hundreds of customers participated in our pre-releaseBeta program, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, many of themtelling us it was ready to ship in its pre-release state. As always, wehave focused our efforts on the things that our customers want: speed andcore functionality, and V11 really delivers. We are particularly pleasedwith the new Alibre Vault(TM) by M-Files®, which brings world-class PDMto the Alibre Design community."
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Tuesday 23 September, 2008 10:04 PM |
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Dassault Systèmes , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of its PLM portfolio Version 5 Release 19, comprised of the CATIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and 3DVIA brands. V5R19 offers increased engineering excellence, expanding PLM deeper into production cycles, accelerating PLM adoption for mid-size companies, broadening IP lifecycle management and further integrating within the enterprise ecosystem.
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Tuesday 23 September, 2008 02:01 PM |
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