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Black Diamond – The director’s cut   (Repost)

Black Diamond – The director’s cut   (Repost)

Are you a climber or skier? Even if you’re not, you’ll probably want to be once you see how NX user Black Diamond designs their products. Check out the main 8-minute video case study as well as a PD…

Render Them Speechless

Render Them Speechless

One relic on my desk is a framed cover shot from the first calendar we did in 1997. At the time we wanted to show customers the possibilities of photorealistic images by highlighting other customers …

What’s it all about Tecnomatix?

What’s it all about Tecnomatix?

This is my first post for Siemens PLM Software. As Ben mentioned in the previous post I will write about digital manufacturing and our Tecnomatix solution. Well, not immediately in this one, but in t…

Welcome Markus Erlmann to the Blog!

Welcome Markus Erlmann to the Blog!

It’s Friday! And we’re about to welcome a new voice to the Siemens PLM Software blog. Markus Erlmann joins the blog as the lead writer for Tecnomatix and we’re really excited to have him onboard!

They said what?  Getting Good Information

They said what?  Getting Good Information

Over the holidays, I made it a point to visit a few CAD sites.  While I’ve always been a lurker on Eng-Tips, I created an account this time.  Thanks to Franco Folini’s Novedge site, I found…

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers – Part II

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers – Part II

Micro-blogging is useful for some business situations but Twitter is not always the best tool. Many of us need more secrecy, less noise or simply don’t have a need or desire to follow what people are…

Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF Wins Top AvWeek Award

Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF Wins Top AvWeek Award

I remember when the F-35 JSF program was awarded to Lockheed Martin. The complexity of its design and development reminded me of the scope of the International Space Station project. Coordinating …

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers – Part I

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers – Part I

I was watching CNN the other day and saw one of the reporters had a twitter address. If you watch the news, you may have seen a story or two about micro-blogging. It’s a technology somewhere between…

Students Apply Engineering Skills to Solar Car Design

Students Apply Engineering Skills to Solar Car Design

Applied skill when I was in college meant writing for the city newspaper run by the Journalism school. The challenge was to apply all that we learned in the classroom into the newsroom under deadline…