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NX Manufacturing

The Evolution of Tool Path Design (Part 2)

In Part 1, I covered Zig and Zig-Zag tool paths.In Part 2, I take a look at Offset tool paths. To achieve complete cutting in odd-shaped areas, Offset tool paths were developed. ...

Polarion

Final Countdown for POP Challenge 2013

Summer is winding down and so is the annual Polarion POP Challenge.We have had many submissions to this year's contest, however we still do not have a clear winner so there is still time to su...

Corporate Blog

Meet Purdue University Student Engineers Kevin Oswald and Adam Fogarty

PACE and EcoCAR are two different real-world academic programs we support. So I did a double take when I saw an EcoCAR presentation on the agenda for the PACE Annual Forum. EcoCAR 2 student engine...

Simcenter

Femap Tips & Tricks: Solid Mesh with Beam Elements

Structures like reinforced concrete where steel rebar in encased in solid concrete can be represented by 1-D rod or beam elements for the rebar inside solid 3-D tet-elements for the concrete. When se...

Solid Edge

Why Do We Need Multi-Body Modeling?

  This is going to be a series of blog posts covering the topic of multi-body modeling (let’s call it MBM) in Solid Edge. It has taken me a while to get my head around this topic because it is...

Polarion

Managing an Important Requirement: Vacation!

Summer means vacations. When you have more than a couple of people working on a project, juggling everyone's vacation schedule is a headache for project managers. They have to email or talk to everyb...

NX Manufacturing

The Evolution of Tool Path Design (Part 1)

The primary purpose of modern Computer Aided Machining (CAM) programs is to create efficient tool paths for Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining. Since machining is a subtractive process, ...

Embedded Software

big.LITTLE

From time to time, a concept or some terminology pops up and suddenly everyone is talking about it. That is...

Verification Horizons

Part 10: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Verification Techniques & Technologies Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs that present the highlights...