3D Composites Can Make Parts Cheaper
Engineering Materials 7/31/2012 8 comments A less expensive method for making aircraft and automotive components uses additive manufacturing techniques and aluminum powders to form metal matrix composites.
Autodesk Snaps Social Video Into Picture
CAD/CAM Corner 7/31/2012 15 comments Reasoning that video has a key role to play in design collaboration, Autodesk is acquiring Socialcam, a mobile app and Web-based video capture, edit, and sharing service.
My Wine Fridge Ate Its Fuse
Made by Monkeys 7/30/2012 13 comments The wine cooler looked great, but it wouldn't work. The fuse just wasn't up to its task.
ANSYS, Intel Strive for High-Fidelity Simulation
CAD/CAM Corner 7/30/2012 2 comments A partnership is fine-tuning ANSYS CAE software for multicore architectures, allowing engineers to conduct larger, more detailed, and more accurate simulations.
Sunglass API Fuels CAD Connections
CAD/CAM Corner 7/27/2012 Post a comment With the formal release of the Sunglass API, Sunglass is courting developers to build add-ons for its cloud-based collaboration platform, along with fostering direct integration to popular 3D design tools.
Oversampling Reduces Quantization Errors
Mechatronics Zone 7/27/2012 7 comments No matter how many bits an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) provides, the digital output can only approximate the original signal.
Aircraft Materials Lighten Up
Engineering Materials 7/26/2012 16 comments Engineers have a broader choice of metals and plastics to help lighten the load and beef up the strength of commercial aircraft designs.
Deconstructing Complex Semiconductors, Layer by Layer
Blog 7/25/2012 4 comments UBM TechInsights presents a free Webinar that shows how it uncovers the secrets within semiconductors and other integrated circuitry used in all the devices we’ve come to know and love.
Video: Swarming Robots Dazzle Cannes
Blog 7/25/2012 10 comments Flying in swarms and equipped with mirrors, 16 of the University of Pennsylvania's tiny flying quadrotor robots dazzled the audience at Cannes by manipulating sound and light and dancing to music.
Renault Fast Tracks CAD Interoperability
CAD/CAM Corner 7/25/2012 4 comments Using Elysium interoperability software, Renault Sport F1 created a supplier portal that automates multi-CAD file exchange, facilitating collaboration across a global supply chain.
Video: 3D-Printed Furniture Is 'Endless'
CAD/CAM Corner 7/24/2012 15 comments As technology innovations and price reductions advance the 3D printing cause, novel applications are springing up, including custom furniture and prescription drugs.
Crack Fix for Pesky Oven Bulb
Made by Monkeys 7/24/2012 26 comments The bulbs on this otherwise great dual cooker caused quite a problem when they needed to be changed.
Slideshow: Rescue Robots Save the Day
Blog 7/23/2012 24 comments Like many robots deployed in military applications, robots used for post-disaster search-and-rescue missions will go places humans can't.
Engineering Tools Take to the Cloud
CAD/CAM Corner 7/23/2012 8 comments While engineers have been slow to adopt the cloud-based delivery model, a slew of new on-demand tools are promising to alter product design processes and promote a new level of cross-company collaboration.
Plastics Deliver Massive Weight Savings for UPS
Engineering Materials 7/20/2012 33 comments After a year-long pilot program, UPS plans to shift to composites and other plastics for many of the structural components in its brown delivery trucks.
Mentor Graphics Bridges 1D With 3D CFD Analysis
CAD/CAM Corner 7/20/2012 4 comments As part of its push for upfront CFD analysis, Mentor Graphics has tightly coupled its system-level 1D Flowmaster tool with its FlowEFD 3D CFD analysis offering, letting engineers leverage the best of both platforms.
Coconut & Fabrics Improve Biocomposites
Engineering Materials 7/19/2012 9 comments Researchers in Malaysia have developed a bio-based composite material by substituting coconut fibers for traditional ceramic fibers in biocomposite tiles. The natural fibers improve the strength and stiffness of the composite materials and also reduce their weight.
MathWorks Fleshes Out Its Code Story
CAD/CAM Corner 7/19/2012 5 comments Citing automatic code generation as a way to help customers accelerate time to market, MathWorks augmented MATLAB with functionality for generating HDL code for ASIC and FPGA design.
Sustainability Makes for Good Design
CAD/CAM Corner 7/18/2012 15 comments Compliance directives and user demand for greener products are upping the ante, and new capabilities in CAD and PLM tools are helping engineers embrace the practices as just another element of effective design.
Video: 3D Printer Cooks Up Blood Vessels
CAD/CAM Corner 7/17/2012 9 comments A bioengineering team from the University of Pennsylvania has put the RepRap open-source 3D printer to work, making templates of blood vessel networks out of sugar as part of its work in regenerative medicine.
Solar Cells Printed on Aluminum Foil Cost Less
Engineering Materials 7/16/2012 17 comments Nanosolar's thin-film solar technology, which prints metallic, nanoparticle inks on huge rolls of aluminum foil, promises to be more efficient and cost less than alternate thin-film methods.
BMW Engine Powered by Aluminum Piston
Engineering Materials 7/13/2012 15 comments An aluminum piston built to withstand the heat and strength requirements of very high-power diesel engines will go into the triple-turbo, 93kW/liter engine for the BMW M550d xDrive sedan.
Want to Make a Cool $500?
Gadget Freak 7/13/2012 8 comments Does your homebrew design have what it takes to be featured in the Design News Gadget Freak forum?
3D Materials Expand Design Options
Engineering Materials 7/12/2012 15 comments New rigid and rubber-like digital materials for Objet's Connex 3D multi-material printing systems offer improved toughness, more shore scale values, and resistance to heat.
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.
Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Labs have observed a reaction in lithium-air batteries that could help improve the design of these cells for electric vehicles and other applications.
Healthcare might seem to be an unlikely target application for the Internet of Things technology, but recent developments show small ways that big-data is going to make an impact on patient care moving into the future.
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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