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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If a designer can dream it, solidThinking can help make it a reality.
That is the message solidThinking, a new Troy-based company, hopes to spread internationally.
Already popular in Italy -- where the software was developed -- solidThinking has launched a new version aimed at Windows and Mac users worldwide. And its recent acquisition by Altair Engineering Inc. gives solidThinking the contacts and support to expand rapidly, executives said.
"Our mission is to bring a digital tool to the market for product designers to capture, explore and visualize their ideas," said Alex Mazzardo, the company's vice president of product strategy and marketing.
Mazzardo started solidThinking in 1991 with his brother, Mario, who is vice president of product strategy and management.
Altair acquired the company's assets in 2008 and is in the midst of moving the Mazzardo brothers to Michigan to complete the transition.
Designers use solidThinking software to create photorealistic 3D virtual prototypes of products across industries from jewelry to yachts to automobiles, Mazzardo said.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:53 AM |
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Ask 1996 Wenatchee High School graduate Eric Wengreen how he manages to keep his iPod earbuds from falling out during strenuous exercise.
He’d love to tell you about it.
Wengreen, 30, is the inventor of BudFits , a set of soft, rubber “hooks” that attach to each earbud and wrap over the top of the ear for a secure fit.
BudFits is the first invention he’s marketed via his Minneapolis-based company, Innovelis.
He says he launched the product nationwide June 19, after about a year of research and development.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:50 AM |
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3D design technology supply company, Innova Systems, are celebrating being the first company in the UK to have past the full range of accreditation exams set by SolidWorks Corporation, a global leader in 3D engineering design and analysis technology.
Engineers at Innova have passed the challenging examinations to prove their knowledge and capabilities in the use of SolidWorks' extensive suite of engineering design software. Already a UK leader in SolidWorks training and 3D design, Innova work with a broad range of industries and companies such as Xaar, Copytrax, Amarinth, Fenland Leisure and Thermoteknix.
SolidWorks is an advanced 3D computer aided design system that enables engineers to rapidly develop and refine design ideas, enabling them to create new and innovative products. It is used by engineers in a broad range of industries, such as automotive, medical, electronics, communications, architecture, furniture and the energy industry. "It has always been important to us that we employ the very best engineers," said Mark Bradford, Managing Director of Innova Systems Ltd.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Geometric Limited was recently granted a patent titled “Geometry based search method for 3D CAx/PDM repositories” by the US Patent and Trademark Office (Patent no. 7,397,473). The patent outlines algorithms and methods to locate 3D CAD models based on shape data, unlike text and attribute based search methods.
Geometric’s 3DSearchIT is a shape-based search engine technology, built on patented algorithms such as this. Shape-based search is an intuitive process and improves productivity by enabling and encouraging information reuse through product lifecycle stages such as design, planning, manufacturing, procurement and inventory management. By encouraging reuse, it also has a potential to reduce overall product development time and costs.
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 09:42 AM |
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You're an evil genius, bent on world domination. You have a nuclear weapon simmering away in the basement of your underground lair, deep within some Polynesian volcanic island. You still have to eat.
Bring me a sandwich, fool! Hah-hah-hah!
Which means you need a kitchen. May I suggest the Porsche Design Kitchen P'7340 built by Poggenpohl?
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Thursday 4 September, 2008 10:35 AM |
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Helsinki, Finland - In preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Finland-based sail maker WB-Sails is using EFD.Lab fluid dynamics simulation software from Flomerics to develop and optimize sails for Star and Finn class Olympic sailboats. "Our traditional panel codes predict sail forces reasonably well in the upwind case, when flow separation is not a major factor, but we were desperate for something more powerful to predict 3D air flow and sail forces on downwind legs and in the lighter winds that we expect in Beijing," said Mikko Brummer, Head of R&D at WB-Sails.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 02:40 PM |
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For two entire matches, ThunderChickens , Team 217 (Michigan), and its robotic mascot sat like a lame duck. Grant Cox, the team's designated robot driver, frantically pushed the steering stick in various directions, hoping to accomplish with brute force what the infrared signals had failed to do. But the bird wouldn't budge.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 10:42 AM |
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MARSHALLTOWN, IA - Mechdyne Corporation today introduced the 3D Review Station, an integrated computing, display and software system that uses new 3D-ready HD televisions to make interactive 3D more accessible in technical application environments. These new televisions leverage a unique DLP® smooth picture, diagonal sub-frame sampling format to display stereoscopic images. Mechdyne's Conduit software is one of the only means by which images created in popular commercial applications for manufacturing, design, geophysical mapping, medical imaging and other technical fields can be displayed in fully interactive stereoscopic 3D on these televisions.
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Sunday 29 June, 2008 10:20 AM |
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Manufacturers can cut total design time 40 percent by implementing Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) methodologies early in the product development process, Nick Dewhurst, executive vice president of Boothroyd Dewhurst, told attendees at the company’s 23rd annual DFMA Forum this month.
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Sunday 29 June, 2008 06:27 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Many manufacturers are turning to Digital Manufacturing as a companion to CAD, PDM as a way to accelerate and strengthen their lean initiatives.
According to General Motors, the amount of information required to describe the production of a product is 1,000 times greater than the information represented within the product design itself. Digital Manufacturing provides the tools to properly document and communicate these manufacturing complexities.
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Friday 27 June, 2008 06:44 PM |
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Researchers at the university's Institute of Industrial Research are developing the artificial intelligence software that will be used in the CCTV cameras. The technology can identify minor visual cues such as whether a car aerial is up or if the car has a dent and alerts the people concerned.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 12:32 PM |
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When I was asked to write a monthly column for Product Design & Development, I asked if there was anything special I should focus on, other than product design and development, of course. She suggested that this issue was going to deal with time-to-market, and it might be nice to at least start with something relevant to that issue before I wander off into the ether.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 08:28 AM |
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They call diamonds “ice,” and not just because they sparkle. Engineers and physicists have long studied diamond because even though the material is as hard as an ice ball to the head, diamond slips and slides with remarkably low friction, making it an ideal material or coating for seals, high performance tools and high-tech moving parts.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:43 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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South African manufacturers need to see themselves as being part of global product production community that combines the best resources from around the world to take a product to market, rather than trying to keep all the processes on shore, says Roelf Mulder, managing director of award-winning product designers Dot Dot Dot Ex Why Zed Design (…XYZ Design).
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Tuesday 24 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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TransMagic Inc ., the leading developer of easy-to-use and precise 3D multi-CAD/CAM interoperability software solutions, today announced the release of its latest product update, TransMagic R7 SP2. This version introduces parallel processing technology, a new JT read/write add-on translator, major CAD version support and other usability features.
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Monday 23 June, 2008 02:22 PM |
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INUS Technology, Inc. , the developer of Rapidform 3D scanning software, today announced that it will feature its latest inspection software applications at the 19th Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo (DMS) in Tokyo, Japan, June 25 - 27, 2008. At the event, INUS Technology will officially launch Rapidform XOV2/Verifier. The company will also highlight its newly-released SolidWorks add-in, InspectWorks.
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Monday 23 June, 2008 10:19 AM |
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Lattice Technology , developers of the XVL ultra-compressed 3D format, today announced the release of the XVL Converter Plug-in for Inventor, which supports Autodesk Inventor 2009. The XVL converter is scheduled to ship on June 30, 2008. The XVL Translator Add-in for Inventor 2008 is already available for free download from Autodesk Labs
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 08:36 AM |
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Ninety-Two Percent (92%) of Industry Leaders Report That ROI of 3D CAD Meets or Exceeds Expectations
Recent research by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), finds that users of 3D CAD report product profit margins that are 21% higher than users of 2D CAD. However, getting the most value from 3D means getting the software deployed and engineering departments ramped up as effectively as possible.
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Saturday 14 June, 2008 10:09 AM |
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Siemens PLM Software has developed Synchronous Technology, a history-free, feature-based modeling technology the company says combines the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling. The patent-pending technology is being integrated into the company's next versions of NX and Solid Edge software, with the first product slated to ship in summer 2008. The new technology simultaneously synchronizes geometry and rules through a decision-making inference engine. The result, says Siemens, is fast idea capture, fast design changes, improved multi-CAD reuse and a new user experience that makes 3D as easy to use as 2D. www.siemens.com
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Saturday 14 June, 2008 12:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
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Dassault Systèmes (DS) a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced today that its DELMIA V5 Robotics solution has been selected by Gillett Evernham Motorsports (GEM) for its 3D welding simulation tool, adding to its growing stable of V5 PLM solutions. GEM is in its eighth full season as one of NASCAR's premier racing organizations, fielding cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series.
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Friday 13 June, 2008 12:58 AM |
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FARO Technologies, Inc . the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement
hardware and software, has provided its latest equipment in an effort to
help the GTS-champion Corvette Racing Team win the most grueling race of
the season -- the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which takes place this weekend.
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Thursday 12 June, 2008 02:01 PM |
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