8,000 individual hydraulic fittings in 3D CAD models available from Brennan Industries Designers can easily search and view parts on www.brennaninc.com in 3D and then download two types of CAD models (with and without threads) that supply lightweight or heavyweight models depending on your needs. More>>
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DARPA FANG: SOCIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GETS SERIOUS
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There are some interesting social product initiatives out there. GrabCAD, LocalMotors, and Quirky come to mind.
Yet, each of these initiatives only addresses a small part of a big problem. What if you wanted to tackle a serious problemÑone that required not just design, but serious engineering as well?
Let's say, just for fun, that you were going to put together a social product development project to create a next-generation amphibious combat vehicle for the US Marines
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WHY VALIDATION IS IMPORTANT TO SOLIDWORKS USERS
What is your product master?
Is it a paper drawing? A digital drawing? a 3D model?
No matter what it is today, it's likely that, in the future, it's going to be a 3D model.
According to NIST, there are some big advantages of using a 3D model as master
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CAD AT A DISTANCE: USING CITRIX FOR WORKSTATION VIRTUALIZATION
Sometimes the conversations you have in the hallway are the most interesting. Earlier in the year, I was at the Collaboration and Interoperability Conference in Denver, and was chatting with a man who works for Boeing. He mentioned that the company's main CATIA infrastructure for the 787 Dreamliner is located in Everett, Washington, where their main production line is. When engineers at the second production line, in North Charleston, South Carolina, need access to CATIA, they use desktop virtualization.
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A REAL WORLD DESIGN CHALLENGE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
How do you get high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math? Why not give them a real world design challenge to solve?
In the 2013 Real World Design Challenge, students are asked to tackle a couple of serious engineering design problems. And, thanks to the generosity of a couple of engineering software industry companies, they'll have real world tools to do the work: PTC Creo Elements/Pro, Mathcad, and Windchill, and Mentor FloEFD concurrent CFD.
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3D PDF VIEWING GOES MOBILE
One of the reasons 3D PDF is an important file format is because it doesn't require a special viewer. If you have Adobe Acrobat Viewer on your desktop computer, which most folks do, that's all you need.
But what about mobile?
Adobe has versions of its reader for IOS (iPhone, and iPad), and Android. But, when you view a 3D PDF file with one of these programs, you'll find that you don't get 3D. You get a snapshot of the 3D. Just an image.
For 3D PDF to be taken seriously, it needs a good mobile viewer. The real question is who should develop it?
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SPATIAL, ACIS, CGM, AND THE FUTURE OF GEOMETRIC MODELERS
This was my first time at the Spatial 3D Insider's Summit. It's not a large conference just 60 or so attendees, plus people from Spatial, with a heavy bias towards nerdy folks with PhD's in mathematics. It is the one time each year when Spatial gets together with its very best customers, and talks about the status, and the future, of its products.
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