SolidWorks CAD cylinder assembly screenshot. The full digital manufacturing revolution — where everything from production lines to the components of the product being assembled on them are first ...

There's an old saying among parametric or history-based CAD users that goes something like, "Never fill the hole that you've dug for yourself." Now, for engineers who are working across CAD packages ...

The NEi Nastran in-CAD 2011, an finite element analysis (FEA) solution that is delivered in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. With this tool, product design teams can perform FEA pre-processing, ...

With the new FRAMEpro plug-in, directly transfer CAD files for Bosch Rexroth’s modular aluminum profile system elements into popular CAD environments Autodesk® Inventor and SOLIDWORKS from Dassault.

What’s wrong with the above picture? Failure can be an excellent teacher, and [J. Peterson] reminds us all of this when he says to remember to model the environment when designing things in CAD. He ...

San Jose, CA. ProPlus Design Solutions Inc. today unveiled MEPro, within its own Nano Design Environment (NDE), which bridges circuit design, CAD, and process development and lets designers quickly ...

The desktop CAD applications, running on centralized CAD blade farms, are delivering performance improvements of over 30 percent compared to traditional CAD workstationsThe electricity consumption of ...

A step-by-step walkthrough of a typical workflow and data transfer. The author emphasizes understanding teamwork dynamics applied to design and manufacturing methods. Strategies for CAD/CAM workflow.