Powering Up Green Design Companies are all over the idea of reducing their product’s energy consumption and reliance on hazardous materials. PLM and CAD software are helping achieve those sustainable design goals. Full Story
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Second Life: A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering Second Life (SL) enables users to build anything and then interact with it. By applying SL building tools, engineers are facilitating a paradigm shift in computer-aided design. Full Story Autodesk Takes Flight with FEA FunctionalityAutodesk acquired PlassoTech technology in an effort to bring more sophisticated finite element analysis (FEA) capabilities to its Inventor 3D CAD tool, including the ability to perform analyses on entire assemblies, as well as individual parts. Full Story Z Corp. Rolls Out New 3D Scanner The new $50,000 ZScanner 800 adds a third HD camera that raises the resolution of its previous 700 scanner model from .25 mm to .05 mm. Full Story Dassault Serves Up Delmia PLM Express As part of its push to make PLM technology more accessible, Dassault Systemes has added another module to its PLM Express line—this time a tool that offers scalable digital manufacturing solutions for smaller businesses. Full Story Alice 3.0 Software Soon to be Released from Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon University is ramping up to release Alice 3.0 to help transition students in computer science and programming. Full Story
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Green may be a cool color, but the practice is red-hot when it comes to design initiatives. With the world finally paying heed to environmental concerns, companies of all types are going back to their drawing boards to redesign products with an eye towards sustainability. Has your firm begun to think about, even shift gears to embrace green design principles? Drop me a line.
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