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Siemens Sets FreeTrial for CAD, Sim Tool
By Beth Stackpole – Users can download full production versions of the Solid Edge ST4 CAD software and Femap simulation tool free of charge for use for 45 days. The hope is that by removing any...
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Dassault Bridges Mechanical, Electrical Design
By Beth Stackpole – Dassault Systèmes is continuing to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to fleshing out a true multi-disciplinary systems engineering approach to product development. In...
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Siemens PLM Portal Streamlines Part Selection
By Beth Stackpole – The new supplier parts catalogue Web portal is being made available thanks to a partnership with CADENAS Gmbh, a provider of parts management software. The portal, which serves up...
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For Dassault, 3D Sketch Is a Natural
By Beth Stackpole – Thanks to the influx of mobile tablets like the iPad, 2D sketch tools and industrial design capabilities are suddenly hot. So hot that Dassault Systèmes just added a new 3D sketch...
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3D CAD Brings Battleships to Life
By Beth Stackpole – Donn McKinney has been obsessed with large battleships for more than 30 years. Now, thanks to his diligence and dexterity with 3D CAD software, he’s close to producing an...
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Slideshow: CAD Jockey’s Holiday Gift Guide
SLIDE SHOW (9) By Beth Stackpole – We’re not talking about mainstream electronics fare like 3D TVs or robotics devices that make all of the mainstream gadget gift-giving guides. Rather, we’re talking...
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Crowdsourcing Creates CAD Groundswell
By Beth Stackpole – Local Motors, for example, is a startup car company, which, according to its mission statement, is looking to “lead the next generation of crowd-powered automotive manufacturing,...
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CAD’s New Age of Functionality
By Beth Stackpole – In the 2000s, CAD was in a rut. Sure, there were regular updates with lots of new power features, but the advances did little to attract or inspire new users beyond the traditional...
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Vuuch Makes Product Development Social
By Beth Stackpole – One of the more vocal candidates in the social field is Vuuch, which bills itself as an enterprise social software provider. In 2010, we reported on its adding of a social...
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The Growing Reach Of Product Lifecycle Management
By Tony Christian – PLM really started life as technology to help major engineering firms (especially auto companies) to manage the large variety of electronic product information that was being...
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Updates from SIEMENS
Christer Oldeide uses NX, wins student design competition SIEMENS – Christer Oldeide is currently studying Mechanical Engineering, Product Development and Manufacturing at the Norwegian University of...
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Reverse Engineering A Turbine
NVision – The company was tasked with redesigning a turbine so as to optimize its energy efficiency. However, in order to perform the necessary simulations it needed to have the CAD model of the...
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