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Redesigning the NX 11 Expressions Dialog – a Success Story for Customer Involvement

July 23, 2016

One of my favorite things about being an NX product manager is the opportunity to work with our customers to define and refine the NX engineering tools that make us all more productive.There’s…

By TaylorAnderson
4 MIN READ

Photorealistic Rendering with a CAD System: That’s how we see it.

June 22, 2016

I have to admit, I’m a nut for classic films: black & white, made before 1950, even silent films. I stumbled on to Buster Keaton’s silent classic, “The General”, at the Los Angeles Conservancy’s …

By PattiLongwinter
4 MIN READ

Industrial adoption of AR/VR technologies: how to overcome challenges

June 15, 2016

Many Siemens PLM Software customers have already started adopting Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) to improve product and process design, maintenance and repair, and remote collaboration. Siemen…

By AnnaTTB
2 MIN READ

Pushing the Performance Envelope with NX and Teamcenter

June 13, 2016

When I was in charge of IT systems and operations at a high tech company, there were many lessons I learned about the production environment that I take with me today.  Here are just a few them …

By stewartbresler
4 MIN READ

Introducing Unigraphics III V11.0 with New, Improved PFK

March 31, 2016

 
The future is here! And for those of you who have been in CAD long enough, it looks a whole lot like the past—only better.

Today we are proud to announce the latest version of our…

By Amy Reyes
3 MIN READ

How to Explain CAD to Anyone – A Lesson from the Cambridge Science Festival

March 22, 2016

Few people understand or appreciate the fact that everything you see, touch, and hold (and even most things you don’t) originally began in a CAD system. A real living, breathing human designed them a…

By Amy Reyes
4 MIN READ

If It Wasn’t for CAD, I’d Be an Accountant

March 15, 2016

Note:  This post is intended for a mature audience. No, not that kind of mature… Mature meaning you can remember when companies had two different design departments:  people on “the board” …

By tkelker01
4 MIN READ

10 CAD Resolutions for 2016

January 15, 2016

Ah, the New Year. That time of year when we tell ourselves we will finally get (and use) that new gym membership, or quit smoking once and for all or… well, you get the idea. While it’s easy to fall …

By Amy Reyes
4 MIN READ

Don’t design parts with CAD

December 1, 2015

This may seem an odd statement coming from a product manager for a CAD product, so let me explain what I mean by it.

In the old days, we learnt to work on drawing boards; thankfully the …

By StevenVickers
4 MIN READ