The art of parts Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 2, 2011 Kramski, one of the world's leading tooling and parts manufacturers, optimised its product development processes and improved product quality with…
All change in the Automotive world: Part Two in a series of…? Posted by Al Dean - February 1, 2011 For those working in automotive design and manufacturing, there’s further big news (after Daimler’s switch to NX last month) this…
Direct modelling mania! Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 2, 2010 ‘Direct Modelling’ used to be just another relatively unpopular 3D technology. Now it seems vendors are falling over themselves to…
Systems technologies and mechatronics Posted by DEVELOP3D - November 29, 2010 Systems technologies and mechatronics are receiving increasing interest from users and vendors alike. Allan Behrens has been tracking this growing…
The King is dead…long live the King Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 15, 2010 Stephen Holmes was on hand in Boston to witness PTC's unveiling of its next generation design system, Creo. Along with…
Design forecast: CAD in the cloud Posted by Martyn Day - October 12, 2010 Without the design and engineering community really asking for it, we appear to be on the cusp of a major…
AutoCAD for the Mac goes official… at last Posted by Al Dean - August 31, 2010 Quirky: The UK PR team sent us this little beauty – no use for drawing CAD models, but part of…
Abaqus 6.10 Posted by Al Dean - August 12, 2010 Al Dean looks at the latest updates to Abaqus, the Finite Element Analysis software from Simulia, and finds enhancements to…
SpaceClaim 2010 Posted by Al Dean - July 28, 2010 Al Dean looks at the latest release of SpaceClaim, one of the most recent entrants into the product development technology…
Fantastic Plastic – Why Lamborghini is key to understanding the future of composite design Posted by Al Dean - July 19, 2010 Composites design is something that’s coming up a lot during my meetings with vendors. Only the other week I was…