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CAD: The Next Generation

Why forward thinking engineers are turning to cloud CAD.

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Think You Know ISO 9001?

ISO certification will make your business better, but will it make your products better?

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Physna’s Radical and Effective Geometric Search Engine

Find your baby Yoda and other Thangs with new geometric search engine

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When Making Autonomous Vehicles Smart and Safe, It Helps to Have the Right Tools

Siemens Digital Industries Software in the toolbox helps make smart, safe self-driving vehicles.

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What’s the True Value of CAD SaaS?

Users discuss the TCO of cloud CAD software Onshape.

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Simulate First, Ask Questions Later: How SOLIDWORKS Users Can Reduce Physical Testing

A look at two companies that report big savings thanks to simulation with 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS.

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Drilling Down Into Underground Mining Equipment

South America’s Resemin thrives in the international mining market with low-tech reliability.

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Is PDM the Unnecessary Evil?

Cloud-based CAD has PDM seamlessly built in.

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Recommended Resources

White Paper - How Poor Selection of Materials, Design, Tooling, and Design Errors Affect the Aesthetics of Plastic Parts and What Designers Need to Know About the Science of Color and Appearance

Plastic parts not only need to meet the short-term color and appearance requirements, but also need to be resistant to long term color shift and fading. This paper discusses various points related to aesthetics of plastic parts and what design engineers need to know about science of color and appearance.

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Live Webinar - CAESES Delivers Shape Optimization & Works with Ansys CFD/FEA to Optimize Turbomachinery Designs - Sept 22, 2PM ET

The difficulties of parametrically defining complex geometries for optimization and preprocessing CAD models for flow and structural simulation have driven the development of the CAE platform CAESES over the last decade. Join us to learn how the unique parametric modeling approach in CAESES can be used to optimize an axial turbine design in conjunction with Ansys Workbench.

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eBook - 10 Design Questions That Can Make or Break a New Consumer Product

It’s easy to fall in love with your own CAD design on the computer screen, but it’s how everything fits together off the screen that really matters. Beyond the design, products need to solve real-life problems or provide huge benefits that genuinely merit separating money from wallets.

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White Paper - Parasitic Extraction of MIM/MOM Capacitors in Analog/RF Designs

The Calibre xACT platform offers analog/RF designers the fast performance of a rule-based extraction engine, and the capacity and performance of a field solver, to efficiently extract all parasitic components in a timely manner, with the confidence that all parasitic effects are accurately characterized.

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