The Case of the Low-Efficiency Beacon
Sherlock Ohms 8/31/2011 6 comments Engineers found a trend of low efficiency in standard tests with numerous returned beacons. Sherlock intervened to solve the problem.
SGI Dives Into Open-Source CFD Software
CAD/CAM Corner 8/30/2011 9 comments Along with trying to broaden the reach of CFD, SGI's acquisition of the open-source CFD software provider OpenCFD is just another part of the plan to reinvent itself with integrated technical computing solutions.
Fukishima Disaster Holds Lessons for Engineers
Electronic News & Comment 8/29/2011 27 comments Nearly six months after a devastating earthquake rocked the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, engineers say the design lessons are starting to come into sharper focus.
3D-Printed Plane Takes Flight
CAD/CAM Corner 8/29/2011 12 comments SULSA, an unmanned air vehicle project initiated by the engineering department in Southampton University, is the first aircraft in flight built with select laser sintering (SLS) technology.
SpaceClaim Stakes Manufacturing Claim
CAD/CAM Corner 8/26/2011 6 comments The latest SpaceClaim Engineer 2011+ release takes aim at bread-and-butter manufacturing applications, including NC machining, jig and fixture design, and sheet metal and mold manufacturing.
Dassault Puts Inventor's 'Ice Dream' to 3D Simulation Test
CAD/CAM Corner 8/25/2011 15 comments Dassault Systèmes lends its arsenal of 3D modeling and simulation tools to help prove an eco-entrepreneur's dream of harvesting and transporting icebergs to solve the world's water shortage issues.
Hackers Probe Medical Implants
Blog 8/25/2011 7 comments Attendees of Black Hat Technical Security Forum seem to be leaving computers behind and probing arcane security concerns. But the hacking of a microcontroller-powered medical implant may not be as crazy as it sounds.
Autodesk Fuels Early Analysis With Simulation Offerings
CAD/CAM Corner 8/24/2011 3 comments Autodesk continues to push accessible simulation capabilities earlier into the design process with a pair of new offerings: a plastic modeling tool that integrates with Pro/ENGINEER and a labs project that tackles interactive wind tunnel testing.
Wireless Sensor Nets Make Better Economic Case
Blog 8/23/2011 11 comments Wireless sensor networks are more reasonable to deploy in many vertical domains than they were a decade ago, but market analysts say the jury's still out on which domains will see sensor networks become commonplace soon.
Autodesk Launches AutoCAD Products for Mac
CAD/CAM Corner 8/22/2011 5 comments Citing overwhelming user demand, Autodesk launched a trio of AutoCAD products built specifically for Mac OS X Lion, including AutoCAD 2012 for the Mac, AutoCAD LT for the Mac, and AutoCAD WS for the Mac.
Manufacturers Should Also Practice Common Courtesy
Guest Blogs 8/22/2011 4 comments Blogger TJ McDermott says he is stymied by yet another system where LEDs indicating inputs and outputs "seem to have absolutely no correlation to program numbers."
Rolls-Royce Tests Electric Car
Captain Hybrid 8/19/2011 14 comments Early feedback on the new Rolls-Royce electric concept car shows that drivers like the power and quiet performance, but consider driving range to be an issue.
The Case of the Buried Electrical Box
Sherlock Ohms 8/19/2011 16 comments The drywall crew buried the electrical box, so Sherlock had to figure out how to find it without ripping up the drywall.
ASU Gets Hands-On With Engineering Curriculum
CAD/CAM Corner 8/19/2011 15 comments To provide students with a practical approach to aerospace engineering education, Arizona State University has modified its curriculum with a hands-on approach to learning, including employing The MathWorks tools for real-world problem solving.
Bringing FPGAs to Mechanical Engineers
Electronic News & Comment 8/18/2011 1 comment Xilinx Inc. and National Instruments are trying to make it easier for mechanical engineers and other "domain experts" to employ field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
My Robot Nation Advances 3D Printing
CAD/CAM Corner 8/18/2011 14 comments To address the content creation bottleneck surrounding the democratization of 3D printing, Z Corp has teamed up with Kodama Studios and Offload Studios on a new browser-based service that makes it easy to create and produce 3D printed designs.
Gadget Freak Case #192: The Ultimate Wireless Volume Control
Gadget Freak 8/17/2011 17 comments Andrew Morris decided the usual wireless volume controls don’t offer enough functionality, so he created the ultimate volume control that connects between a computer or MP3 player and an amplified speaker system.
An Unexpected Failure Mechanism
Mechatronics Zone 8/17/2011 20 comments The most solid part of a device can fail even though we test it thoroughly and don't expect it to fail over the life of a product.
Video: Our Prius Plug-In Test Drive
Captain Hybrid 8/16/2011 20 comments Design News editor Chuck Murray drove a pre-production version of the Prius plug-in, and the good news is that it’s a sensible alternative-fuel vehicle.
Weak Springs Cause Power Steering Problems
Made by Monkeys 8/15/2011 17 comments Three months after my girlfriend’s daughter purchased a 2005 Chevy Cobalt with 45,000 miles in 2009, per our recommendation, the power steering stopped working, intermittently.
Vistagy Survey Benchmarks Composites Best-Practices
CAD/CAM Corner 8/15/2011 4 comments While use of composites is on the rise across industries, a good number of companies still need to boost their knowledge and domain expertise around design and manufacturing, according to a recent survey.
3D-Printed Stool Holds 220 Pounds
Engineering Materials 8/12/2011 9 comments In a demonstration of the rapidly growing capabilities of the 3D printing process, Objet printed a stool that folds and holds more than 220 pounds.
SparkFun Inventors Kit Is 'Clever'
Gadget Freak 8/12/2011 7 comments Gadget Freak blogger Steve Ravet recently picked up a SparkFun inventors kit for Arduino. Though his preferred development hardware is mbed, he was impressed.
The Case of the Missing Machines
Sherlock Ohms 8/11/2011 7 comments Sometimes the requirements of a large, tier-one customer are demanding, but this challenge was over the top.
PTC Adds 2D Sketch Tool to Creo Lineup
CAD/CAM Corner 8/11/2011 4 comments PTC has released Creo Sketch, a free app that mimics the "napkin sketch" as a way to help users quickly and easily capture ideas and design concepts.
Composite Mesh Could House Solar Panels
Guest Blogs 8/11/2011 5 comments A functional composite woven textile mesh may be used to transform a major Australian eyesore into a design masterpiece at a cost of around $16.5 million.
Science Grabs Spotlight in Deadliest Warrior
CAD/CAM Corner 8/10/2011 4 comments The latest season puts a greater emphasis on the science, engineering, and testing that goes into ultimately deciding each episode's winner.
My BMW Remembered Bad Settings
Made by Monkeys 8/10/2011 12 comments The memory settings for mirrors and seats on the 2002 BMW X5 SUV are a mess tangled up by monkeys.
Using almost 200 light-emitting diodes in the front and back of the new 2014 CTS, Cadillac designers are showing how LEDs can change the character of a vehicle.
We looked at a number of sources to determine this year's greenest cars, from KBB to automotive trade magazines to environmental organizations. These 14 cars emerged as being great at either stretching fuel or reducing carbon footprint.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 3
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A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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