SolidWorks Helps Landscape Forms Beautify the World

I’ll admit that my design expectations for park benches, bus stops and public trash cans were pretty low before I saw the products developed by a company called Landscape Forms. The Kalamazoo, Michigan-based company has been producing stylish site furniture and accessories for more than 40 years, but it wasn’t until 2002 that the company took a huge leap forward into 3D by switching to SolidWorks. Read full article »

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Getting the most out of SolidWorks includes upgrading your software and having the best hardware configuration to support it. Here’s an example of the types of gains you can see from better hardware setups.

NX Brightens Future for Solar Car Team

According to Lee H. Goldberg, author of Green Electronics, solar racing got its start in 1985 when the first Tour del Sol was held over five days between Romanshorn and Geneva, Switzerland. The now defunct event spawned a wide variety of transcontinental and track competitions, which often involve big-budget teams from big engineering departments at big universities. Read full article »

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Implementation Case Study: NX Performance Gains on Different Hardware Configurations

NX users can realize significant performance gains with the right hardware configuration. Other factors, such as monitor size, resolution, memory, operating system, and video drivers can also be manipulated to enhance your NX experience.

AutoCAD Weekly Round-Up: Autodesk 360; DesignScript; CAD Geometry

Autodesk 360 Moves AutoCAD 2013 to the Cloud
Whether you plan on using it or not, you need to explore Autodesk’s new cloud solution — it will change the way we use AutoCAD. Now that the hype around the AutoCAD 2013 release has subsided a bit, it is time to dig into a new feature that could foretell a big change in how we use and manage our AutoCAD-based products. That feature is Autodesk 360, formerly code-named Autodesk Cloud.
Originally Posted by Robert Green, Cadalyst
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DesignScript
Robert Aish has been behind many innovative design software solutions including Bentley’s GenerativeComponents (GC). Now at Autodesk he will shortly deliver a new programming environment for AutoCAD to enable design computation.
Originally Posted by Martyn Day, AEC Magazine
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Overview of CAD Geometry Comparison Tools
For decades CAD salesmen have been promising to do away with 2D drawings, and to remove barriers to collaboration. But with passing year, we tend to see more roadblocks to communication and collaboration when that work has to be done between users of different CAD software. It is clear that real interoperability solutions are not going to come from the big CAD vendors.
Originally Posted by Matt, Dezignstuff
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Concepting in Creo – Part 2: Modernizing Concept Design

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about PTC’s global survey on Trends in Concept Design. In Part 2,  I delve into modernizing concept design. Read full article »

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Creo and Pro/ENGINEER users can realize significant performance gains with the right hardware configuration. Other factors, such as monitor size, resolution, memory, operating system, and video drivers can also be manipulated to enhance your Creo or Pro/ENGINEER experience.

GID Development: Designing with CATIA

Last time I told you about the new Transition “roadable aircraft” from Terrafugia. Engineers at the company rely on CATIA Composites Design to solve their most complex design challenges. But CATIA is great for less complicated products, too, as evidenced by the Bodydock Cellular Armor™ line from GID Development. Read full article »

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CATIA users can realize significant performance gains with the right hardware configuration. Other factors, such as monitor size, resolution, memory, operating system, and video drivers can also be manipulated to enhance your CATIA experience.