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NX CAE Tips & Tricks - Contact

August 10, 2012

Contact is an everyday occurrence for a wide range of mechanical systems. The human body is no exception. Consider for example the contact between your hip bone and its socket as you saun...

Meet New Engineer Jesse Alley

August 09, 2012

What do football and engineering have in common? For Jesse Alley, it was a conversation during a football game that eventually led to his first gig as an engineer. Jesse received a bachelor’s degree ...

It’s just a fastener…or is it?

August 09, 2012

What’s so difficult about fasteners when it comes to designing an airframe? You just drill some holes, grab some hardware and bolt the parts together, right? It seems as if it should not require that...

Standard Time Management in Teamcenter

August 08, 2012

You might be surprised to learn that according to estimates 90% of all manufacturing activities are non-value added. Non-value activities for which we know customers are not willing to pay us when we...

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Femap Tips and Tricks: Extrude Element Edge

August 08, 2012

In Femap it’s possible to extrude element edges to create new shell elements from existing shells. This is useful when there is no underlying geometry or other edge surfaces available to help extend ...

Geometric Constraint Solving on Imported Data

August 08, 2012

One of the strengths of the D-Cubed 2D DCM and 3D DCM geometric constraint solvers is their ability to work with models imported from other systems. Of course, before the data gets to the solver it h...

PLM on Mars: How NASA JPL Used Siemens Technology to Land Curiosity

August 06, 2012

On behalf of all the employees of Siemens PLM Software, we would like to congratulate our partner, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for successfully landing the “Curiosity” Rover on Mars. It...

Meet Future Engineer Alexey Rogovoy

August 02, 2012

Alexey Rogovoy won third place in a recent student design contest in Russia. He is a fourth year student of Chuvash Ulyianov State University. His project was this truck transformer developed with So...

NX CAE Tips & Tricks - Sloshing

August 02, 2012

Fluid sloshing occurs when a change in momentum causes the spontaneous displacement of a fluid. This displacement can occur within the confines of an enclosure or receptacle - like when you wal...