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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Electric vehicles were one of the dominant features of this year's Frankfurt motor show. But unlike in 2007, nearly all the ones that were on show this year were very real runners. As an engineer, the future excites Tony Butcher who started in the car industry as an apprentice, gaining an MSc in engineering business management, before joining Rover. He progressed through the ranks running major operations at Unipart and Benetton F1 before ending up at Prodrive in 1998.
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Wednesday 30 September, 2009 10:19 AM |
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Accordions and robots don't seem to have much in common -- although an accordion-playing robot would make for a killer Weird Al song.
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Wednesday 30 September, 2009 09:55 AM |
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EXLAR announces that the Tritex II Series AC actuator—available in linear and rotary varieties—has won a 2009 Design News Golden Mousetrap Award for Best Product under the category Motion Control/Automation, subcategory Motors & Mechanical Components.
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Tuesday 29 September, 2009 10:29 AM |
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10 Amazing Modern Watch Designs of the Future – The techniques of luxury watch design can be as intricate and delicate as those of a precision automobile, albeit on a much smaller scale. From crystal to carbon fiber, diamond to gold, the materials and make of today’s luxury watches spare no expense to achieve perfection. Benjamin Clymer of the excellent watch blog Hodinkee.com examined 10 of the greatest modern watches on the market today, and how they are shaping the luxury watch world of tomorrow. If you’ve got a case of watch lust, you’re going to love what Benjamin outlined below…
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Friday 25 September, 2009 05:00 PM |
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Humanoid robots developed at the Beijing Institute of Technology can do more than perform T'ai Chi maneuvers and answer simple questions when interacting with humans. Duan Xingguang, the professor in charge of the efforts, believes we are heading into an era where robots will become part of our daily lives.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 01:56 PM |
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Earlier this month ROBRADY design and DK City unveiled their concept db0 folding electric bicycle to a select audience at Eurobike '09, the year's leading bicycle show in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Images of the concept bike are now being made available to the public. ROBRADY will be discussing the bike with Carlton Reid of BizBike.com this week during a half-hour interview at Interbike in Las Vegas. The db0 is the first in a series of three bicycles that ROBRADY has designed for DK City. The bike is scheduled for release to the market in the first quarter of 2010.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 11:55 AM |
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Researchers at the University of Bath have used nature for inspiration in designing a new type of swimming robot which could bring a breakthrough in submersible technology. Conventional submarine robots are powered by propellers that are heavy, inefficient and can get tangled in weeds. In contrast, ‘Gymnobot,’ created by researchers at the Ocean Technologies Lab in the University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is powered by a fin that runs the length of the underside of its rigid body.
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Friday 25 September, 2009 02:37 AM |
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When it launched in 2000, SketchUp provided new freedom for people who wanted to think imaginatively in three dimensions. Unlike the more “serious” design programs, it did not pin down the user to a degree of accuracy that was inappropriate at the birth of an idea. Dimensional accuracy and calculation of properties are frustrating, not enabling, when you are trying to be creative.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 12:53 PM |
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Autodesk, Inc ., a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering technologies, announced that certification for Autodesk 3ds Max Design software is now available in North America. Autodesk 3ds Max Design is a comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution that offers integrated workflows with the AutoCAD and Revit software families of products. Certification is currently available for AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk Inventor and Revit Architecture software in 20 countries.
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Tuesday 22 September, 2009 10:12 PM |
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Catalog Data Solutions (CDS), a leading provider of online product selection tools for industrial suppliers and distributors, today announced that Gates Corporation’s Industrial Power Transmission business unit has adopted a CDS designed and developed online catalog, including CAD model downloads, called PartView™ (www.gates.com/partview). |
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Monday 21 September, 2009 11:57 PM |
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From the vacuum that doesn't lose suction to
the only one that rides on a ball, James Dyson and his team of engineers are
obsessed with engineering new and better technology. They've proven this once
again with two new handheld vacuums: DC31 and DC31 Animal. The handhelds are
powered by the latest evolution of the Dyson digital motor (DDM), redefining
what it means to vacuum with a handheld.
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Sunday 20 September, 2009 11:51 PM |
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It's a question that has left the best minds in India scratching their heads: how to harvest the coconut crop when no one either wants or knows how to climb trees any more.
But officials in Kerala, the southern agricultural state famed for laid-back tourism at its tropical beaches, are hoping new technology can be harnessed to solve the problem.
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Sunday 20 September, 2009 09:49 PM |
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A key discussion theme at EPN’s third Plastics in Medical Devices conference, which took place in Brussels earlier this year, was the complex but vital interaction that must be achieved between device designers and their customers and suppliers if top quality products are to be brought to the market.
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Sunday 20 September, 2009 03:46 PM |
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Concepts NREC , a world leader in turbomachinery design, research, engineering and manufacturing, today announced that its Agile™ Engineering Design System® 2009 (Agile 2009) software is now shipping. Upgraded with over 40 new computer-aided engineering (CAE) features and enhancements, Agile 2009 provides turbomachinery engineers with new design and analysis capabilities. These upgrades were developed in response to Concepts NREC's Agile software user group input for the benefit of existing and new users. With this release, Concepts NREC underscores its fully integrated engineering, design and machining capabilities, allowing for more effective and efficient turbomachinery.
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Friday 18 September, 2009 08:35 AM |
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It's amazing how very simple ideas can sometimes stop you in your tracks, and the folding plug from inventor Min Kyu Choi is the perfect example of that.
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 11:50 AM |
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Doosan Infracore has announced receiving the Best of the Best Award at the '2009 Reddot Design Award Show' for the futuristic concept excavator, 'CX'..
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Thursday 17 September, 2009 12:31 AM |
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Cranes Software announced the release of the latest version of its leading
Finite Element Analysis software, NISA Version 17, today. This significantly
improved version offers an enhanced DISPLAY IV, NISA`s powerful interactive
graphics Pre and Post-processor. The new DISPLAY software streamlines complex
finite element modeling, analysis and results interpretation for a better user
experience. Additionally, the new DISPLAY has improved interoperability allowing
it to interface more easily with a variety of popular CAD file formats. |
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Wednesday 16 September, 2009 08:42 AM |
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There's nothing , it seems, that Philippe Starck can't design, or rather redesign. From toothbrushes to motorbikes, from hotels to pasta, Starck has stamped his jaunty, clownish, almost exaggeratedly French personality on them all, becoming the world's most famous designer in the process. Now Starck is out to redesign possibly the only thing he has left untouched: design itself. In particular, Starck is on a mission to reinvent British design. Yes, the man who gave the world the rocket-shaped lemon squeezer is out to teach us Brits a thing or two – an act of Gallic gall that should have us spluttering into our Earl Grey. |
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Monday 14 September, 2009 10:35 PM |
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MOERS, Germany, - CAD Schroer Group (CSG), the global engineering solutions provider, today announced the release of version 4.0 of MPDS4, its flexible Plant Design and Factory Layout system. New tools and enhancements focus on client collaboration, data integration, and even quicker design editing and visualization. The star of the release is MPDS4 REVIEW, a new tool for easy collaboration on plant designs: MPDS4 now generates very compact plant models, which can be e-mailed to partners or clients, who then conduct collaborative reviews or walk-through on any machine with the tool installed. |
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Friday 11 September, 2009 06:40 PM |
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Autodesk, Inc. today announces the availability of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010 , a new software product that brings the proven benefits of model-based design to mainstream plant design projects. Purpose-built for the design, modeling and documentation of process plants, AutoCAD Plant 3D makes modern 3D design more affordable and accessible to project teams of all sizes. Today’s announcement was made at the SPE Offshore Europe Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition 2009. |
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Friday 11 September, 2009 10:35 AM |
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A Queensland University of Technology researcher is looking for volunteers to take part in a study aimed at making contemporary appliances such as dvd players and mobile phones more usable for the elderly.
Simon Lawry, from QUT's Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering in Australia, said if products were designed based on "intuitive interaction", or using knowledge gained through other experiences, it could give older adults increased independence.
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 12:01 PM |
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