Carlin Motorsport is the most successful motor racing team you've never heard of. Al Dean pays a visit to its Surrey base to learn about the challenges of racing in…
By dedicating a high GHz workstation to CAD and a dual Xeon box to rendering, designers can have optimised hardware for both processes. The workflow benefits can be huge, but…
Greg Corke gets hands on with Ansys Mechanical 17.0 to explore how firms can get more out of their budget when specifying a workstation for Finite Element Analysis
2016 has been a big year for GPU rendering, with both AMD and Nvidia focusing heavily on the CAD sector. Greg Corke explores how a new wave of tools could…
Despite its skeletal appearance, the Light Rider is an extremely strong yet lightweight electric motorcycle designed by Airbus subsidiary APWorks as a showcase of what's possible when topology optimisation is…
With SolidWorks' next major release launched this month, its user community will be keen to learn what's coming. Michael Lord gives us a guide of what to expect from the…
Aerospace company Meggitt reaps the benefit of improved document management through implementing the ENOVIA product lifecycle management (PLM) solution
After a visit to Kelvedon Hatch’s Secret Nuclear Bunker, Al Dean ponders how planning for both the foreseen and the unforeseen is an essential part of the design process, and…