aPriori 2011 review

Posted by - May 25, 2011
Price/Performance is one of the key ratios when developing products. While it's often perfectly feasible to model and simulate performance,…

SolidCAM Xpress review

Posted by - May 24, 2011
SolidCAM has built a reputation on providing single window integrated CAM for the SolidWorks community, but how can it address…

Inventor Publisher 2011

Posted by - March 29, 2011
Autodesk launched this product in Spring 2010, but as a result of a major delay at Her Majesty's Revenue and…

aesthetica 3.3

Posted by - August 3, 2010
A unique offering that helps bring together the diverse team often charged with maintaining Perceived Quality. Al Dean reports

SpaceClaim 2010

Posted by - July 28, 2010
Al Dean looks at the latest release of SpaceClaim, one of the most recent entrants into the product development technology…

Creating virtual factories

Posted by - May 11, 2010
Laser scanning and point-cloud data will be widely-used technologies in the coming years. Martyn Day visited Houston to attend the…

The clouds are gathering

Posted by - March 16, 2010
Three hot topics discussed in this column over the past few months have recently become a little bit hotter. The…

Ansys Workbench 12

Posted by - February 9, 2010
With a rapidly expanding product offering due to technological developments and acquisitions, Ansys is currently concentrating its efforts on making…

Visual perfection

Posted by - November 9, 2009
During the development of the award winning Opel/Vauxhall Insignia, GM Europe used manufacturing variation simulation and visualisation software to help…