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FE Update: Translation Tools Make CAD Models FEA-Ready
The sharing of data between CAD, CAE, and CAM has grown to include machining, molding, and PLM.
Software Review: Rapid Prototypes for Speedy Race Cars
A NASCAR racecar shop uses direct digital manufacturing to build prototypes for car components.
Software Review: Online Portal Tracks Plastic Injection-Molded Parts
As an independent design firm working for medical and electronics companies, we develop all kinds of products.
CFD Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, technologies such as computation- fluid dynamics (CFD) were just a gleam in the eye of everyday engineers.
FE Updated: Supercomputing When It’s Needed
The steady increase in desktop computer power always seems overtaken by larger CAD models that need more complex and lengthy analysis.
Software Review: Solid Edge 2008 With Synchronous Technology
At the core of Solid Edge 2008 is a new technology that definitely pushes the CAD software head and shoulders above the crowd of either explicit or history-based programs.
Web-Based Technique Handles CNC Motion Control
MSI Tec, working with engineers from woodworking-machine maker Unique Machine and Tools, developed a Webbased control panel to manage the motion- control system for Unique’s 3450 mortise-and-tenon CNC woodworking machine.
Software Review: Software links AutoCAD data to SharePoint
Many corporations use Microsoft SharePoint Server as a way to exchange, manage, and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents throughout the organization.
FE Update: Expecting Too Much from FEA
Creating a mathematical model from a CAD model requires first defining the geometry, loads, and restraints along with a type of analysis, such as linear static or transient thermal.
Software Review: How to Program MINDSTORMS Robots
The NXT-G software lets users build programs for Lego Mindstorms NXT robots and then transfers the code via USB or Bluetooth from the computer to the robot.
Software Review: CAD goes green
Today, “green” evokes more than a color — it is meant to imply anything that promotes a healthy, long-lived, and sustainable planet.
Software Review: Digital Pen Excels at Data Capture on the Field
Efficient decision-making based on field data is always core for our work in engineering and architecture, inventory and asset management, and environmental science, so we must often collect high volumes of geospatial information.
FE Update: Expecting too much From FEA
For at least a decade, FEA has been guiding design decisions and helping companies avoid having to build and test several prototypes.
Software Review: Highlights of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0
Before PTC rolls out a new version
of Pro/Engineer, it usually tests the
release with several preproduction
versions. Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 is no
exception.
High-Tech Jobs Slowing But Still Growing
The U.S. gained 91,400 high-tech jobs last year, bringing the total to 5.9 million, according to a report by AeA, a high-tech trade association.
Show Notes COFES 2008: From Quantifying Innovation, to a New RP Format, and More
IT guys, programmers, industry analysts, visionary entrepreneurs, software company CEOs, and on-the-job engineers filled the Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Arizona for the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software.
Assault and Batteries
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories must hate batteries: They heat them to extreme temperatures, overcharge them, drive nails into them, and generally do whatever they can to destroy them.
Will Hybrids Heat Up the Grid?
The growing number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks may or may not require new electrical plants in the U.S., depending on when they’re charged.
Looking Back
10 YEARS AGO —
MAY 7, 1998
Virtual development for
aircraft: Lockheed Martin
will perfect the Joint Strike
Fighter and other advanced aircraft
with the help of visualization
software from Engineering
Automation Inc.
World Spends Over $100 Billion on Materialhandling Equipment
The global market for materialhandling
equipment will reach
$104 billion by 2010, according to a
report by market researcher Global Industry Analysts Inc.
What’s Hot, What’s Not
Recruiters say many parts of the engineering job market remain steady. But “green” skills are in high demand.
Machine Tools On-the-Fly? Yes, Thanks to Digital Prototypes
Who could have guessed that building machine tools on-the-fly would make for a good business model?
“Hare’s Looking at You, Kid.”
Rabbits wearing electronic contact lenses are helping researchers develop devices that could one day let vision-impaired people see or let those with normal vision surf the Web on the go.
Software Review: Graphics Cards and High-Res Display
According to Moore’s Law, computing power (or the number of transistors on a processor) doubles about every two years.
Looking Back
10 YEARS AGO —APRIL 16, 1998